Human centered solutions
Our passion lies in fostering meaningful connections. At the heart of our approach is a commitment to understanding the unique needs and aspirations of individuals, organizations, collaboratives, and communities.
By centering relationships and collaboration, we not only work with you to overcome challenges but spark collective energy, moving together towards common goals and transformative impact.
Helping you advance your goals and move hopeward.
At Hopeward, we believe a key ingredient often missing in the journey towards programmatic, organizational, and community success is hope. We understand that to achieve true success within ourselves, our teams, and our communities, we must ignite and stoke the flames of possibility.
Its about fostering a deep-seated belief in the transformative potential of the future and recognizing that each one of us holds the power to enact meaningful change.
The Tangibles
Services tailored to meet your needs
Clear timelines and milestones
Regular project updates
Deliverables that amplify your work
Iteration and quality improvement
End results that maximize your impact
The Intangibles
We care about you and the people you serve - we are ready to work alongside you
Life happens and things change - we are ready to adapt with you
Sometimes things don’t go as planned- we navigate the unexpected challenges, keeping momentum and moving towards your end goals
We have been there - our consultants have direct experience and bring a realistic understanding of what it takes to do the job
We focus on hope - we believe the future can be different, and that we each have the power to make it different
Planning & Assessment
We are ready to help you move hopeward. Our approach to planning and assessment is centered in listening and understanding your team’s unique circumstances, values, and needs to build meaningful pathways forward.
Pulse Assessments & Environmental Scans
When is the last time you took a comprehensive look at your programming? Are you interested in having a better understanding of the experiences of your clients, funders, and partners? Pulse Assessments and/ or Environmental Scans are useful tools to understand your current landscape, where your partners and clients are, what additional feedback they might have, and what comes next.
Actionable Strategic Planning
Our team works with you to build a customized roadmap for moving hopeward. We believe that Strategic Plans shouldn’t sit on shelves and collect dust. Our comprehensive, interactive, and streamlined Strategic Planning process will have your team feeling energized, cohesive, and confident in making and implementing strategic and actionable goals.
Needs Assessments
Whether you are assessing small projects, large organizational issues, or broader collaboration challenges, needs assessments are useful in uncovering opportunities, identifying pathways, and gathering critical partner/community perspectives.
Quality Improvement Planning
We help you create the time to review and reflect on what is working and what is not. At the program, department, or organizational level, we ask critical questions and guide a process to help you make realistic, actionable, and timely changes for positive impact.
Sustainable Scaling of Projects
Take your successes to the next level by developing a plan for sustainable scaling. Whether you are expanding to focus on new populations or geographies, we help you plan and implement in a strategic way that is focused on both short and long-term success.
Program Development & Implementation
Most of our impact in the social sector is through effective programs and services that meet the needs of people and communities. We’ll help you identify, design, and implement programming that address the most critical needs by building on your strengths and identifying opportunities for impact.
Pulse Assessments & Environmental Scans
We thought-partner with you to consider new or additional opportunities for impact. We deliver high quality, timely assessments, and provide strategic recommendations to drive next steps for your projects and programs.
Actionable Strategic Planning
We help ensure that partners have a shared vision and agenda, are aligned on their activities and measurement practices, and help build public will to advance your goals and maximize impact.
Needs Assessments
We are experienced with project design and implementation at the local, regional, state, and national levels. From visioning to developing detailed work plans, we will ensure that your team is well-positioned to deliver.
Quality Improvement Planning
Take your successes to the next level by developing a plan for sustainable scaling. Whether you are expanding to focus on new populations or geographies, we help you plan and implement in a strategic way that is focused on both short and long-term success.
Evaluation & Impact Reporting
Evaluation should play a supporting role in effective program delivery. Finding the right approach, the right tools, and executing an evaluation plan are key steps to meet funder requirements, and to know that your work is having the intended impact. We’ll help you create an evaluation that fits with your project and organization, focused on minimizing the burden on your team and partners while maximizing impact.
Development & Selection of Evaluation Tools
We work with you to find the right tools to measure the impact that you are making. Whether qualitative or quantitative, we will help you ask the right questions, identifying, developing and finding the right tools to fit your needs.
Reporting for Impact
We want to help you tell your story. From federal reporting to third party evaluations, we can prepare the data and narrative that documents progress. Quarterly and annual reports are most common, but we’ll work with you to determine a reporting plan that meets your needs.
Evaluation Backbone Support
Need help implementing, analyzing, or communicating your evaluation plan? We can do that! We can administer surveys, use innovative tools like kiosks, or collect stories and interview data to gather the data for your project or program. Have a pile or spreadsheet full of data and have no idea where to start? Don’t worry our team loves data, we are here to help analyze, communicate, and report your data.
Quantitative & Qualitative Evaluation Planning
Our goal is to find the right evaluation to meet your needs. We’ll figure out the key questions that you are looking to answer, and design an evaluation plan that maximizes impact and minimizes the data collection burden on your team and partners. We can help integrate federal and foundation reporting requirements as part of a comprehensive plan.
Network Collaboration
We lead collaborative groups, research collaboration, and believe in the power of a collective impact approach. Sometimes collaboratives can feel stuck or ineffective; we’re here to help. We focus on building connections, establishing a common view of the future, and moving hopeward, together.
Networks can consist of individuals, organizations, partnerships, coalitions, communities, initiatives, and/or stakeholders who are working together towards shared interested or common goals. Networks recognize the value of their collaborative is that they are more effective and impactful together.
Network Assessment
We use real-world expertise rooted in research and best practices to assist networks in identifying and understanding their existing strengthens, challenges, and opportunities for growth. A number of factors contribute to effective collaborations. Utilizing a customized selection of tools and frameworks that best meet your networks’ specific dynamics, we assess, analyze, and make recommendations to increase your networks effectiveness and impact.
Network Evaluation
Networks typically have multiple programs, policies, agencies, or institutions who are working together to solve programs and improve outcomes. Evaluating the impact of these multi-stakeholder initiatives can feel daunting. With experience planning and implementing comprehensive evaluation plans with both small and large network collaboratives we are ready to jump in and help.
Network Building
Our team believes that we move hopeward, together. It takes a collective to tackle our biggest challenges. We will help you build strong, effective networks that are committed to making a bigger impact together.
Professional Development & Coaching
We’re committed to lifelong learning, and we believe all organizations can benefit from opportunities to focus on growth and development. We provide fun and insightful professional development events and coaching that fit your schedule and engage your team in meaningful learning and skill development.
Leadership Training
We know that leadership is not about a title or role. We all play a part in leading this work. Our leadership training can inspire and support your team to be their best. Through assessments, reflection, and team discussions, participants will have the chance to learn and grow, and apply their new skills and insights directly to their work.
Customized Training
We love working with groups to energize teams and expand possibilities. We deliver interactive trainings on a variety of collaboration and team building topics including; mindset, identifying or setting common vision and goals, collaborative relationships, and collective impact. We’ll customize training to meet your teams’ specific needs.
Professional Coaching
Whether 1:1 or as a group, we partner with individuals and teams to maximize professional potential. We support leaders at every level cultivate confidence, build skills, and improve alignment between their strengths, vision, and impact.
Team Collaboration
Internal teams are as important as external ones, but are easy to take for granted. Let us help you identify your team strengths, and provide support to improve communication and collaboration.
Custom Services
We love to be a thought-partner and explore new ideas and innovative ways to tackle existing problems. Don’t see what you are looking for? Let’s connect and talk more.
