For Nonprofits & Organizations

We support nonprofits to shine, do their best work, and stand out to funders through training, planning, and ongoing support that aligns mission and capacity, and ensures community impact.

“Dr. Ginger Lee helped transform LHA’s approach to grant writing by teaching the team to translate bold ideas into measurable objectives and develop multimillion-dollar proposals that addressed immediate community needs while advancing policy, systems, and environmental change. At a time when philanthropy remained largely service-oriented, she helped LHA articulate equity clearly within proposals. She also established a more collaborative planning process that centered the knowledge of promotoras and frontline staff.”
Gloria Montiel
Latino Health Access

Consultation, Training, Coaching & Support for Nonprofits

We equip nonprofits with structures, plans, processes, skills, and insights that help staff and boards strengthen governance, align with funder priorities, and connect day-to-day work to broader social issues.

Sustainability Planning

The funding landscape has changed dramatically. It is crucial to adapt quickly to invite additional, mission-aligned philanthropic partners to help support your work so you can continue to advance equity and systems change. Engage in our proven process customized to your organization that results in a co-created, bold Sustainability Plan. At the end of the process, you will have clarity on funding priorities and how to frame them to better invite funders to partner with you, tools and confidence that allow you to have productive conversations with funders, and a practical and accountable path forward with actions the entire organization and/or collaborative can follow. Determine how your organization is or wishes to be connected to larger social issues that funders care about, and how you are living your purpose, mission, and values.

Organizational Capacity

Complete an organizational assessment focused on governance and management practices. Identify any gaps your organization may have and establish a plan for addressing those gaps.

Strategic Planning

Participate in a highly inclusive and collaborative process to develop a living, inspirational, customized strategic plan. Or, if your organization is moving fast in an environment that is changing, it may be more appropriate to develop a plan based on values and larger goals that allows for emergence.

Meeting Design & Facilitation

Let us design and host an impactful convening to meet your organizational goals or overcome pain points. With your input, we will design engaging activities for your team that result in an action plan customized to your organizational objectives.

Qualitative Research & Evaluation

Our team helps you identify the most appropriate questions, design and methods for your evaluation or research. Communicate your successes and challenges with our reports that make complexity visible, surface what’s emerging, provide insights into the effectiveness of a project or initiative, and showcase your progress along the way. The scope of the evaluation or research may include one organization, a system, country or region.

Case Studies

Our team will visit your program, project, community, system or country, assess priority elements identified by you, the communities affected, the literature and the data, and then complete a compelling case study report of publication quality.

Report Writing

Reporting support is available to provide syntheses of key decisions made at conferences and other gatherings. Reports highlighting the process and outcomes of projects or initiatives are also available.

Health Equity Training

This general Health Equity training makes the connection between equity and health. Participants learn root causes of inequities, the difference between upstream and downstream approaches, how to view our work within a larger systems context, and how to frame our work in ways that support and honor the voices of communities most affected by inequities. All trainings are customized to your needs and use principles of adult education and popular education approaches.

LGBTQAI+ Equity Training

A critical component of any Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program is LGBTQAI+ health equity. This training helps your organization promote belonging and inclusion at the individual, policy and systems levels to improve health for all, for your team and for the safety and belonging of your participants All trainings are customized to your needs, and use principles of adult education and popular education approaches.

Capacity Building

Training is available to support your staff and board in areas of governance, operations, collective impact, program planning, implementation strategies, fund development strategies, evaluation and more. All trainings are customized to your needs and use principles of adult education and populat education approaches.

Systems Change

Systems Change & Collective Impact Training and Plans clarify and create paths forward to advance change. Identify the leverage points for change at the intersection between communities and government. Create or strengthen a power ecosystem that positions your collaborative to create windows of opportunity and to move on emerging opportunities quickly. Create a Collective Impact Plan for influencing policy and systems change that will get the attention of funders.

Coaching & Support

We provide coaching for executive directors, lead staff, boards, and fund development staff to ensure plans move forward and results are achieved. A plan is only as good as its implementation. On-going support ensures your plan moves forward and gets results. Coaching and support benefit new and established Executive Directors as they meet the challenges of leading systems change, boards as they oversee or implement plans, fund development specialists as ensure sustainability, , and collaboratives as they move through Collective Impact Plans.

Thought Partnership

It can be helpful to think through approaches and strategies with someone who can help to broaden or hone your thinking. Many organizations find this invaluable support saves time and effort in the long run. We offer thought partnership for issues such as how to develop programming using a poverty and resilience lens, how to use non-oppressive language in communications, or whether the community health worker model might be best for your efforts.

The PHaRE Model© for Systems Change translates a decade of community-driven systems change research into an accessible, practical framework. The PHaRE Model© for Systems Change training helps teams understand how systems and policies shift in practice and how to design, implement, and evaluate work that drives real change. Grounded in research and adult learning principles, this training makes systems change tangible and actionable.

★★★★★

“I have worked with Ginger Lee on several complex projects over the past few years. Most recently, she consulted with the Board of Directors from Visions Museum of Textile Art where I served as Interim Executive Director. Over four months, Ginger partnered with the Board to focus on organizational change in alignment with the museum’s purpose.

Ginger facilitated an innovative process where the Board created a customized, practical path forward. She was particularly skilled at aligning the museum’s purpose and financial sustainability with potential funders. Ginger has the ability to work effectively, calmly, and respectfully with diverse individuals.

Ginger’s outstanding ability to support an organization through transformative change is built on decades of leadership positions with diverse domestic and international nonprofits.”

Elaine Himelfarb, MPH, Non-profit and NGO Consultant

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