Services

Bonnie Olson and partners can provide a broad range of services for community based nonprofits, government entities, networks and coalitions.  Services include:

Strategic Planning -wide range of tools for strategic planning, design processes to fit your organization, facilitate planning sessions, produce full planning documents.  I specialize in planning that engages broad constituents and allies for larger vision and long-term support.

Organizational Capacity Building -  full organization capacity assessments and strategies to build and strengthen your organization; Board of Director training, team building.  Work with you to prioritize how to strengthen your organization, from administrative functions to purpose and values.

Collaborations, partnerships and mergers - guidance and tools to help your organization identify potential partners, evaluate the match, negotiate terms and create partnerships.  Mergers will become a strategy of tomorrow in our challenging times, and smart organizations are able to build alliances and economies of scale, while maintaining their values and accountability.

Community Planning - Collaborative and community planning for systems change, multi-sector endeavors, economic development plans, creating community accountability

Outreach and community engagement - Connect with diverse communities for genuine input - on policies, community services, new programming, and feedback on services.  Can convene the right team, design and implement outreach plans.  Emerging Design Consulting has extensive experience in producing top quality input, and designing processes to maximize long-term involvement.

Public Policy Development - Human Services and economic development plans, research and community feedback, innovative service and policy design, feasibility studies, focus groups and surveys

Research and feasibility studies - identify best practices, build rationale for programs and services, design innovations, funding and grant research

Training - Partnerships and collaborations, Board of Director training, strategic thinking, program planning, diverse community outreach and engagement, cultural competence, dialogue, future search conference, Appreciative Inquiry and other methods of systems change.

Meeting Facilitation - Design and facilitate retreats, creative thinking sessions, community input sessions, multi-lingual and multi-cultural meeting design