CLIENT EXAMPLES
Helping collective impact initiatives, nonprofits & philanthropic organizations advance racial and economic justice.
Featured Clients
Minnesota Alliance on Crime
Center for Economic Inclusion
Brooklyn Bridge Alliance for Youth
Brooklyn Bridge Alliance for Youth
The Brooklyn Bridge Alliance for Youth (BBAY) is a cross-sector collaborative of organizations committed to equity in positive youth development.
The Alliance includes nine partners who signed a Joint Powers Agreement to work toward this mission which include the Cities of Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center in the Northwestern suburbs of Minneapolis, the school districts they encompass, two community colleges, Hennepin County, and youth.
BBAY undertook a strategic planning process to identify how they can more effectively advance equity while revitalizing their values.
Need
The Brooklyn Bridge Alliance (BBAY) and its partner organizations desired to more rigorously center equity in the way that the collaborative works together.
Their data showed that addressing persistent inequities among historically marginalized students in their area would help accelerate their mission.
However, BBAY and its partners needed a path toward helping their collective take shared ownership and responsibility to address inequities within their systems.
Solution
Acting on their equity commitments, the team at BBAY worked with Create Good to engage their partners including school districts, the cities of Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center, Hennepin County, community colleges, and - most importantly - youth who go to school in these communities - to create equity-centered organizational values and strategic priorities for the Alliance.
Results
BBAY is working with its partners to implement a new way of collaborating. It is deepening its relationship with its communities, incorporating more equity-based learning, and helping partners exercise shared power with youth.
BBA chooses to slow its work down to gain alignment and cohesion among partners in the short term so that they can go faster in the long term.
Minnesota Alliance on Crime
Minnesota Alliance on Crime (MAC) helps its members provide access to restitution and resources for people impacted by crime. MAC and its member organizations desire to more rigorously center equity in their collaborative work. They recognize the need to create a shared understanding of what it means to be an antiracist organization.
MAC partnered with Create Good to revitalize its strategic plan and update its organizational identity to recognize that its work impacts systemic inequities.
Need
MAC realized the need to engage its key constituents in its strategic planning process.
Stuck between what felt like a tension between doubling down on their investment in equity work and staying consistent in their training and advocacy, they saw the value in partnering with a third-party perspective.
Solution
Create Good trained MAC staff and board members on how to more deeply engage their network by hosting Town Hall-styled sessions that helped them hear from and get input from their constituents.
We engaged in interviews and focus conversations with MAC staff and board and surveyed members. The team then took that data and used it to conduct strategic planning.
Results
MAC created a strategic plan that provided the organization with clear next steps to advance its equity work.
In addition to strategic planning, Create Good helped MAC implement their first strategic priority and created tools for them to track progress on equity goals.
Center for Economic Inclusion
The Center for Economic Inclusion (The Center) is committed to closing racial employment, income, and wealth gaps while building racially inclusive and equitable regional economies that work for everyone.
The Center Partnered with Create Good to evaluate a pilot program, Project Vanguard, which provided Black and Latina women owned businesses with capital infusions through forgivable loans as well as coaching, network-building support and technical assistance.
Need
The Center needed to create a formative and summative evaluation framework to determine the impact and efficacy of Project Vanguard.
Solution
The Center partnered with Create Good to create a logic model and evaluation plan. This plan helped staff become clear on what data would be needed and used to assess the difference Project Vanguard made on Black and Latina women-owned businesses.
Using a mixed methods approach, Create Good coupled quantitative survey data with qualitative data from Project Vanguard Participants to come up with a holistic story of the program’s accomplishments, areas to improve and lessons learned.
Results
Create Good used the evaluation analysis to create a report outlining the uniqueness of Project Vanguard and a final report for The Center’s national funder for the project.
The lessons that are shared in the report provide an opportunity for other organizations in the entrepreneur-serving ecosystem to pick up where Project Vanguard left off and continue to build on its successes .
What We Do
FACILITATE
Facilitate groups toward a unified commitment to equity.
Identify where equity shows up in your initiative’s or organization’s identity - whether in your mission, vision, values, or policies.
EVALUATE
Build your team's muscle to center equity in using data for decision-making.
Understand the data, historical context, and root causes of the inequities you’re working to solve.
PLAN
Co-design strategies that bring your commitment to and vision for equity to life.
Build leadership among team members and partners on how to practice applying equity principles to reshape, reframe, and rebuild their work.
Our Services
There are a variety of ways that we can help you advance equity in your work.
Facilitating
Consulting
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