Programs + Services
RoadMap is a full-service capacity-building shop; we delight and thrive in supporting movement organizations at all phases of the journey. During our intake process we will discern which service/expertise areas will most effectively support your capacity building needs. We then assess your needs against the capabilities and availability of our diverse, vibrant, and skilled bench of consultants and engage in an intentional process to ensure client/consultant fit and a fruitful partnership from intake to project completion. (To learn more how to work successfully with a RoadMap consultant, check out our guide, Tips for a Successful Consultant Engagement.)
Below are descriptions of our different service capabilities, each of which include specific types of expertise.
Assessment & Evaluation
RoadMap is unapologetically nerdy in its love of data-driven organizational assessment and analysis. Our values-driven approach—which can involve everything from focus groups to stakeholder interviews to survey instruments—allows us to identify an organization’s strengths and challenges in every aspect of their work and infrastructure, then use those learnings to develop a plan that builds on an organization’s strengths.
Board Development
Strong boards help guide a movement organization’s ability to grow and sustain itself. In addition to training new and seasoned board members, our work focuses on how to further develop the capacity, recruitment strategies, financial sustainability, and functionality of a board to meet the mission of the organization. Our network members also include specialists in alternative (read: non-hierarchical and values-driven) approaches to board structure and governance.
Coaching
Fresh eyes and ears do wonders for growth. We provide individual and group coaching to movement leaders at every level of an organization (not just Executive Directors) who are working to build their leadership skills, work through big organizational questions, and/or need a sounding board to navigate through a strategic set of questions. We also work with leaders on goal setting and building plans to reach those goals.
Communications
What you say and how you say it matters. Whether you are looking to increase awareness, launch a campaign, or implement an internal communications strategy, we have seasoned consultants who can support a range of needs including communications strategy, social media, website development, branding, crisis communications, and general public relations efforts.
Conflict & Healing
Movement organizations are no strangers to facing conflict out in the world and it’s not uncommon for temperatures to rise internally as well. Our network members support the internal challenges movement organizations, coalitions, and ecosystems face through a range of conflict and healing approaches, including restorative justice, transformative justice, somatics, healing justice, and more formal approaches to mediation.
Facilitation & Training
Movements and movement organizations thrive in collaboration but building programs can be daunting. Whether you have a kernel of an idea or a big vision for what your organization might need, we can provide retreat and meeting design, facilitation, and design and delivery of interactive and dynamic trainings.
Finance
Financial sustainability is not always easy for movement organizations to achieve. Our seasoned consultants can provide support with financial strategy and planning, budgeting and forecasting, and accounting.
Fundraising
We understand that asking for money can feel awkward, but fundraising is a necessity. We’re highly skilled in helping movement leaders, boards, and organizations develop an overall fundraising strategy. We also have network members who specialize in grassroots fundraising, major donor cultivation, and grant writing, including public and private foundation grants and government grants.
Human Resources
We have a deep bench when it comes to human resources. Our human resource practitioners approach human resources from a people-centered and values-driven perspective and can support organizations on hiring, compensation, policies and handbooks, and employee well-being.
JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion)
Our commitment to racial justice and liberation is core to everything we do. Our capacity building work is grounded in a JEDI framework and supports organizations committed to building a more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive organizational culture. We achieve this through introductory racial justice trainings as well as advanced approaches to comprehensively building just practices into the structure, culture, planning, decision making, and program development aspects of an organization’s work.
Leadership Transition
At some point in the life of an organization there will be a leadership transition. We support leaders, boards, and organizations with everything from succession planning to designing and stewarding an executive search process.
Organizational Development
Organizations often come to us with a need for a skilled organizational development practitioner who can lead and navigate every aspect of an organization. Our deep bench of seasoned consultants is highly skilled in organizational development and change efforts.
Programs & Strategy
Mission-driven organizing, base building, and programmatic work lie at the heart of movement organizations. Our consultants support organizations with program development and design and organizing strategy, including campaign development, advocacy, member-based organizations, coalition-building, and 501c3 and 501c4 work.
Strategic Planning
There are many ways to arrive at a strategic plan, be it short, medium, or long term. There are traditional approaches that include tactics such as organizational assessments, stakeholder interviews, retreats, and comprehensive plans for organizations to follow. There are also experimental and more participatory approaches that support organizations in developing key frameworks, organizational practices, and programmatic/organizing strategies. We meet organizations where they are at via the approach of their choosing.
Technology
Our network includes an impassioned geek squad who can support organizations with data and database management, digital security, and other information technology guidance.
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We're looking forward to talking about how we can support your capacity-building efforts.
