Consulting & Coordination
Our Consulting and Coordination services provide 1:1 support where you need it to integrate Civic Assembly elements and upgrade your unique democratic infrastructure and engagement systems.
Benefits
Tackle specific components or address holistic systems – completely tailored to meet your objectives
Have a trusted thought leadership partner as an extension of your team – for as long as you need them
Gain practical insights on how and when to make your engagement model more inclusive and collaborative
HOW WE CAN HELP
Consulting Services
We help local leaders upgrade democratic infrastructure through tailored consultation and coaching. We can provide strategic evaluation, ideation, mapping, action planning, and one-on-one coaching to maximize inclusion and integrity for public engagement systems and their deliberative processes.
WORK WITH US TO:
• Evaluate public engagement strategies according to goals and project needs.
• Map engagement ecosystems and identify opportunities for methodology improvements.
• Make recommendations on engagement plans with integrated deliberative processes
• Identify new tools or strategies for meeting process and recruitment goals.
• Advise on process design, including planning, outreach, recruitment, accessibility, and workshop designs
Coordination Services
Draw out new voices from all walks of life to help shape public policy. We offer comprehensive coordination services to design, organize, implement, and facilitate Civic Assemblies or robust deliberative community engagement events.
WORK WITH US TO:
• Create an attractive invitation letter encouraging participation in the deliberative engagement opportunity
• Invite randomly selected community members and collect demographic data from respondents
• Hold an event to select a representative group of community and/or stakeholder participants
• Develop agendas, and orchestrate event logistics
• Coordinate an independent process to curate introductory information on the policy topic
• Manage the personal and administrative needs of moderators and participants
• Promote the resulting participant-authored recommendations, engagement reports, and manage media content