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 experienced team of 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
Focus Groups 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 heartfelt feedback.
We analyze and distill your community engagement data into a comprehensive report that helps your team develop a deep understanding of community and staff aspirations while surfacing opportunities and highlighting key areas for support.
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 and ideas are on the table. We use an ever-growing set of techniques to make the brainstorming process fun, along with rubrics to rank organizational readiness to test the viability of ideas.
Assemble Diverse Groups
Analyze Current Processes
Refine Your
Mission
Apply Human Centered Design
We assemble and guide diverse working groups with members spanning departments, classifications, and skill sets so activities are holistic, representative, and build skills staff can replicate across your organization.
We help you optimize your resources by pinpointing your strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and risks. We guide you in looking across your ecosystem to identify where existing partnerships can be leveraged and where new partnerships can be established to broaden your reach.
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.
We understand organizations are complex, interconnected systems. We get at the heart of collaboration by putting each team member's perspectives at the center of design so everyone has a voice and 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
We use human-centered, thought provoking strategies to clearly articulate the problem questions you want to solve - and in what order - and generate priority goals, objectives, and activities that are tangible and scalable.
We work with your design team to calibrate strategic plan 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. Your plan will embody your unique goals and objectives so you can proudly share your vision with stakeholders and community members.
We work with your team to bring your plans to fruition through ongoing work sessions that invite free-flowing ideation, prioritize actionable activities, and stage future work to 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, effectively forecast budgets, and support diversity.
Organizational Assessments
Project Management Training
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Capital
Projects
We look across your organization to map the landscape and identify competing priorities, then work with you to develop a roadmap of actions for the years ahead, including a plan for the resources you will need.
We connect with your team members to identify what support is needed to own the work, then provide tools and skill-building exercises to support them from project initiation through closure.
We approach DEI initiatives by centering intentional relationship building. We listen first to hear about your organizational journey and readiness then propose options for how we are best poised to help.
We craft building programs and provide expert review at all phases of design. We bring the eye of the practitioner to how diverse audiences actually behave in 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