“Emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies.”
Our Services
Strengthening your Infrastructure
Expanding your Capacity
Advancing your Leadership
Strengthening Your Infrastructure
Driving community change demands more than just a clear mission. It requires creating the right systems, strategies, and tools to take measurable steps toward your vision. At Emergence, we focus on understanding your specific goals to help you create an organizational infrastructure with the strength to fuel sustainable community change.
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Whether you’re planning to launch a new program or even an entirely new organization, we’ll partner with you to craft a design that aligns with your assets and your community’s unique needs. From discovery and market research to clear implementation strategies, you’ll have the tools you need to launch, grow, and sustain a powerful, community-driven initiative.
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Bringing a fresh perspective, we can help your team review and analyze your internal operations processes to find new pathways toward community change. We can work with you on staffing strategies, internal communication, board structure, and team building. We look for synergies between positions, departments, and programs to increase efficiency, resilience, and sustainability.
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Evaluation grounded in sound data can help organizations better serve their communities. Our team draws on innovative, equity-focused evaluation methods to gather insight from the stakeholders that matter most to your organization. We synthesize our findings to reveal new ways to improve programs and services to advance your mission.
Expanding Your Capacity
At Emergence, we believe that communities, not funders, should determine how to drive social justice and sustainable change. We’ll partner with you to design advancement strategies that deliver the resources you need to grow and thrive--while remaining focused on implementing community-centered solutions.
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Many organizations feel tethered to a donor-centric approach to fundraising that doesn’t fully align with their vision. Our team works with leaders and organizations to shape cutting-edge advancement strategies to power community-based solutions--while engaging donors as authentic and informed partners.
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Individuals, organizations, and movements working towards change must be adequately resourced to do the big work. We’ll work with your team to leverage your organization’s unique strengths and relationships to meet your fundraising targets while developing strong, authentic relationships with your supporters. From writing successful grants to creating compelling campaigns, our focus is on building your team’s capacity to fundraise effectively in-house.
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Events can be a powerful way to build connections and create energy, but they can also drain time and resources. At Emergence, we specialize in designing and implementing events--whether in-person, virtual, or hybrid--that leverage your organization’s unique assets and demonstrate your impact in real time.
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Clear and effective financial management processes can save time, energy, and resources--and allow you to focus on your mission. We’ll partner with your team to create or refine budget, bookkeeping, and grants management systems to ensure your resources are being used efficiently to support community-driven change. We can provide coaching for your team to use these new systems or become an integrated part of your team managing this work for you.
Advancing Your Leadership
We are committed to amplifying the voices of community leaders--and ensuring that their solutions are at the heart of systems change work. Our team tracks the latest research and best practices on how to bring an equity lens to work in the social sector--and helps organizations more effectively promote justice, opportunity, and prosperity for all.
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Leadership in the social sector demands a clear vision, deep connections to community, and effective systems to drive toward change. We assist established and emerging leaders by offering guidance on everything from goal setting and program design to community engagement and building a team--providing new tools and practices to help individuals, teams, and organizations thrive.
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Forming strong, mutually supportive partnerships and networks within the social sector can spark innovation, diminish competition, and drive community change faster for everyone. We bring community-based leaders together through gatherings and learning experiences to deepen their knowledge of critical issues facing the social sector--and to build new relationships that strengthen the collective community.
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Funders have a crucial role to play in driving systems change. We work with individual donors, corporations, and foundations to develop a philanthropic approach that diminishes traditional power dynamics, prioritizes community empowerment, and drives resources toward equity and justice.