Brown & Associates, Inc. provides consulting services to nonprofits, philanthropic institutions, government sector entities and other organizations in the broader social change sector. Services include:

Project Management & Strategy Advisement

• Idea cultivation and the creation of tangible ingredients needed to turn your idea into reality.
• Superb relationship development and connector capacity across the social sector.
• Effective use of resources through budget management and contractor supervision.
• Clear and consistent communications between partners, consultants, and/or clients.
• Strategy advisement and support for development, board engagement, talent recruitment, vision-setting, and more.

Convening Design and Facilitation

• Program design for conferences, workshops, meetings, and virtual events.
• Facilitation to ensure participant engagement, conversation focus, time efficiency, and tracking decisions and next steps.
• Focus groups for institutional learning about specific population sets or issues.
• Participatory research projects that engage community in shared learning processes.

Research & Analysis

• Case studies and evaluations that examine progress and effectiveness
• Asset mapping of public resources, philanthropic entities, experts, and stakeholders related to a specific issue.
• Landscape analyses produced through the use of available data, qualitative research, and literature reviews.
• Projects that produce and leverage work within the academic sector.
• Participatory research that engages community members or institutions in shared learning processes.

Community/Leadership Training and Coaching

• Community Organizing – organizing people, resources and ideas to acquire or increase power.
• Program Development – helping organizations adjust their goals and tactics so they are aligned with their organization’s mission.
• Communications/Media Training – increasing an organization’s ability to engage with the media and how to tell their own story.
• Resource Development and Coaching – identifying philanthropic organizations, community and business partners that can increase resources.

Community/Executive Leadership Advisement

• Strategic Planning – a comprehensive focus on aligning an organization’s vision, goals and objectives with its mission.
• Decision Making Advisement – using community-based and economic-based data (and other analytical tools) to improve real-time decision-making.
• Team Building/Retreat Facilitation – expert led process that involves engaging the organization’s leadership in crafting an experience that uses best practices.
• Meeting Facilitation – expert led process that helps the organization (its personnel and partners) build consensus and effective plans of action.

Executive Support Consulting

• Board Development – identifying critical leadership for the governance of non-profit and for-profit organizations.
• Document Editing – providing professional business writing and editing support to small businesses and individuals. Services also include support in proofing articles and editing self-published books.
• Speech Writing and Review – providing speech writing services (creating new content) and speech review services (editing existing content).
• Decision Making Advisement – using community-based and economic-based data (and other analytical tools) to improve real-time decision making skills.
• Resource Development and Coaching – identifying philanthropic organizations, community and business partners to increase organizational resources.
• Crisis Management / Resolution – using best practices to avert and/or resolve organization problems.
• Transition Management – learning how to stabilize leadership when organizations are growing or contracting (succession planning, exit planning, new market launches).

Strategy Philanthropic Consulting

• Community Investment Advisement – where philanthropic organizations can identify where their dollars can have the most value and impact.
• Environmental Assessment – where organizations can understand the political, economic and social landscape.
• Trends Forecasting – where organizations can understand which direction social and economic investments are pointing and how to align their missions accordingly.