Helping organizations move
forward with intention.
Advancing with Purpose provides guided planning to foster agency-wide alignment for cohorts, small organizations, and large entities. Our partner consultants are assembled into customized project management teams to support the specific needs of each organization and their community.
Community Engagement
Connect with the people you serve to understand their needs and experiences.
We engage in quantitative and qualitative research methods with targeted questions tailored to get your organization the answers you need.
Staff and
Public Surveys
Listening Sessions and Interviews
Interactive
Activities
What We Heard
Reporting
We collect meaningful data from your internal and external audiences utilizing questionnaires and pulse surveys that gather the information you need to move forward.
We connect with key populations, community partners, and stakeholders in an intimate small group and one-on-one settings to understand their experiences and probe for deeper insights.
We customize in-person engagement activities to create collaborative experiences between staff and community members that invite conversation and new perspectives.
We distill your community engagement data into a comprehensive visual report to help your team build a shared understanding of the current state, future aspirations, and opportunities.
Collaborative Design Workshops
Unlock organizational curiosity and tap into the valuable insights from your team.
We take you through an ideation process to make sure your team’s best thinking is at the table. We use an ever-growing set of techniques to make the brainstorming process fun, with rubrics to test organizational readiness and rank ideas.
Assemble Diverse Groups
Analyze Current
State
Refine Your
Mission
Apply Human Centered Design
We assemble and guide working groups with members spanning departments, classifications, and skill sets so activities are holistic, representative, and build transferrable skills and approaches.
We help optimize your resources by pinpointing your strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and risks. We guide you in looking across your ecosystem to identify the power of partnerships, now and looking forward.
We work with you to develop or evolve the guiding intention for your organization’s work and define the values on which your organization is built.
Organizations are complex, interconnected systems. We get at the heart of collaboration with design techniques where everyone has a voice and a hand in creating meaningful solutions.
Strategic Business Planning
Align your organization's trajectory with the needs and aspirations of your community and staff.
We utilize staff and community insights to create strategic priorities and initiatives for the years ahead. This ensures that your organization is moving towards high-level goals with each and every project.
Create Your Vision
for the Future
Align Your
Capacity
A Fully Produced
Plan
Implementation Support
Together we clearly articulate the problem questions you want to solve - and in what order - to generate goals, objectives, and activities.
We calibrate proposed activities with available staffing and resources so you are positioned for successful implementation.
We produce a plan that is reflective of your organization's style and personality. The public impact will be clear and compelling.
We relish the hand-off from strategy to implementation, where you develop the work plans to make initial investments and evolve your initiatives.
Organizational Development
Boost productivity, empower your staff, and give them the tools and resources needed to thrive.
We help organizations create structures and systems that improve internal communication, optimize workflows, forecast budgets, and practice teamwork.
Organizational Assessments
Project Management Training
Change
Management
Capital Projects
& Accessibility
With current state assessments, we reflect back where you are today to build shared understanding as a basis for future plans.
We help you cultivate a team of project managers who are empowered to own and execute the work, with lifecycle tools and skill-building exercises from project initiation through closure.
We center the people side of change, with deep attention to team dynamics, leadership competencies, and ongoing daily practices. Your organizational journey and readiness are always top of mind.
In collaboration with architects, we support building programs at all phases of design. We bring the eye of a practitioner to how diverse audiences interact with spaces and how to establish a sense of welcome.
Advance your organization's mission.
Connect with us to learn how we can work together to help your team move forward and launch initiatives that support your community.
16E Mechanic St
New Hope, PA 18938
awp@advancingwithpurpose.com
Tel: 202-549-4262
Designed by Vanessa J. Hawthorne