Our Solutions Start With Human Centered Design & Mission Alignment
Take steps to impact change.
Our Human Centered Design Process
At Aligned Consulting Collaborative, we believe in forging genuine connections and tailoring our approach to suit your unique needs and ambitions.
Our journey together begins with understanding and mutual trust, ensuring every step we take is guided by the community's voice and your organization’s vision.
By celebrating strengths and addressing challenges, we create sustainable structures that not only support but also elevate your mission.
Here’s how we collaborate with you to spark meaningful change:
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Defining your why
Our partnership kicks off with a deep dive into your motivations and aspirations. We explore the heart of what you wish to achieve — for those you support, your team, and your organization’s role in these goals. Understanding your 'why' illuminates the path to impactful outcomes.
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Reflecting on how
Community engagement is our compass in navigating what’s working and what’s not. With trust, transparency, and cultural humility, we listen and learn from the collective wisdom around us. This insight shapes our strategy, ensuring our actions are perfectly aligned with achieving your vision.
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Identify your what
Finally, we crystallize what needs to be done to bridge the gap between your current state and your desired future. From ideation to implementation, we're by your side, turning vision into reality and dreams into tangible results.
Our Services
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Resource Mapping and Needs Assessments
Anchored in community strengths, our innovative approach to resource mapping and needs assessments uncovers the hidden gems within your community, laying the groundwork for sustainable change.
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Evaluation and Reporting
With intention to identify both what’s working and what may need to change, strategic evaluation and reporting allows for reflection and decision-making for continual alignment of actions with aspirations.
Whether you are to looking to capture and build on successes, or feel stuck and need to recalibrate, our team can help you to gather, analyze, and summarize information that ensures you’re on the path to achieve the outcomes you intend.
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Strategic Planning and Program Design
We know that sometimes the work becomes more about what has to happen today than what we want for people as a result of our efforts.
We guide you back to your 'why', transforming the day-to-day into impactful visions for the future.
Together, we'll chart the course from aspiration to action, defining the 'how' to achieve your 'what'.
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Community Campaigns and Engagement
We see community engagement as a foundational lens, not a checklist item.
Our campaigns are crafted with the community, for the community, and identify strength-based, community-focused solutions.
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Coalition Development
Asset Based Community Development challenges us to ask, “who else cares?”
Recognizing the intersectionality of human experience, we facilitate coalition building to move forward together.
Our expertise in finding shared motivations ensures that everyone who cares has a seat at the table.
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Establishment of Advisory Boards
True to the self-advocacy movement's ethos, 'nothing about us without us', we champion community-led advisory groups as a cornerstone of our work, ensuring those most impacted guide the journey.
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Training and Capacity Building
Transformation is not a one-off event but a journey. We equip your team with the skills and knowledge to keep the momentum alive, ensuring the change you enact lasts well beyond our collaboration.
So What?
Now What?
Empowering transformation through human driven design
We create a space and give you the tools to dream big about how your organization can impact your community.
Envisioning the possibilities is the first step. Then we ask, “So what? Now what?”
Let us help you move to take action. Aligned Consulting Collaborative is the partner that will work alongside you, ensuring your aspirations turn into tangible outcomes.
Good policy, good systems and structures, good programs, and good practices: these are all best defined by those most impacted by them. At the heart of Aligned Consulting Collaborative lies this commitment planning and design driven by people and communities.
