Model

Flowchart illustrating the Design-thinking process of problem-solving with steps: Listen, Define, Analyze, Solve, Test & Evaluate, and Repeat.

My model is based on mutual collaboration and creation. Together, we’ll find needs, problems, and growth areas that are both necessary and relevant to your organization’s vision, mission, sustainability, and success. Then we’ll pilot solutions and evaluate them to ensure they’re actually solving identified growth areas. Lastly, we’ll use our evaluations to re-design our solutions before relaunching them.

I don’t create band-aids. I create comprehensive solutions designed to grow and strengthen your organization.

Services

strategic Planning

Together, we’ll set a vision and carve a path for your organization’s future. We’ll tell the story of who you are, where you are, where you’re going, and how you’ll get there. You’ll emerge from this experience with a concrete plan to not only achieve, but also communicate your organization’s short-, medium-, and long-term goals.

Strategic planning isn’t just a snazzy vision statement — it’s a strategic, achievable story of the path your organization will take to make that vision statement a reality. Potential deliverables include:

Flowchart outlining inputs, objectives, and activities for a nonprofit food ecosystem project in El Paso County, CO. Inputs include financial and human resources, expertise, infrastructure, partnerships, and governance. The objective is cultivating an equitable food ecosystem. Activities cover food recovery, processing, distribution, consumption, and organic waste recycling.

Logic Models

SWOT Analysis

Strategic planning cycle diagram with five steps: 1) Find out where you are, 2) Make a list of your goals and objectives, 3) Develop your plan, 4) Make your plan a reality, 5) Restructure and revise as necessary.

Strategic Plans

Market analysis report infographic showing market size growth chart, consumer demographics pie chart, product demand trends, competitive market share, and regional market growth analysis.

Market Landscape Analysis

Impact Measurement & program Evaluation

An impact measurement plan helps your organization collect the data, research, and evidence needed to tell the story of your work. It’s not enough to say where you’re headed. Donors, funders, partners, and other stakeholders want to see that you’re maximizing their resources to make real, tangible progress towards your vision.

Program evaluation turns the impact measurement lens inward. This process gathers and analyzes information about your organization as a whole and/or an individual program to assess its effectiveness and efficacy. Potential deliverables include:

Cover of "Food to Power 2024 Impact Report" featuring a leafy vegetable background with blue overlay.

Annual Reports

A data map titled 'Food to Power' with columns for logic, data/outputs, tracking department, and collection tools. It lists metrics such as pounds of produce grown, food recovered, and volunteer hours, tracked by departments like Farm, Food Access, and Community Organizing, using tools like the Food Rescue Robot and Google Sheets.

Data Maps & Systems

Infographic about recovering fresh food. It states 13.5% of U.S. households are food insecure and the U.S. wastes 30-40% of its annual food supply. The initiative works with grocery partners to distribute edible but unsellable food. Since 2019, 2.6 million lbs of food worth $10 million have been saved, equating to 2.2 million meals. In 2024, 404,000 lbs worth $1.5 million have been saved, equal to 337,000 meals.

Impact Measurement

Program Evaluation

Fundraising, Development & Strategic Growth

Development is not just about growing, it’s about strategically planning your organization’s growth to achieve long-term financial sustainability. The philanthropic landscape can be fickle and it’s critical to develop strong fundraising and partnership-building systems to ensure your organization has the resources it needs to not just survive, but to thrive over the long haul. Potential deliverables include:

Document titled 'Grant Narratives' featuring mission and vision statements for Food to Power, a nonprofit organization. The short mission is about cultivating a just food ecosystem in Colorado Springs. The short vision focuses on healing and thriving communities. The long statement addresses food security, health, and social issues, quoting Executive Director Patience Kabwasa. It highlights Food to Power's efforts to provide access to nutritious food and education, and transform community food systems in Colorado Springs and El Paso County, CO.

Grant Writing

Prospect Research

Food to Power poster promoting a food ecosystem to combat fresh food insecurity. Features an image of fresh radishes and text detailing their mission and achievements in feeding community members and recovering food.

Development Toolkit

Fundraising Strategy