Work With Us
Michele offers a variety of services through this practice, bringing in skilled and seasoned collaborators when the project calls for them. If you are interested in potentially working together, please contact us for a complimentary introductory call.
Services
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Workshops
Applied learning programs
Tools and frameworks
Technical assistance / accompaniment
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Organizational and team retreats
Convenings and other gatherings
Field and cohort building meetings
Funder-grantee dialogues
Learning intensives
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Strategic planning
Equity reviews, assessments, and audits
Team building workshops
Consultations for executives
Equity competency frameworks
Landscape analysis
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Grant strategy reviews
Facilitation for grant panels and review meetings
Grant and fellowship panel service
Consultations
Temporary Program Officer support
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Liberatory coaching sessions for practicing artists, cultural workers, organizers, and philanthropy professionals
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Keynote speeches, remarks, and presentations at board meetings, grantee convenings, and other events
Speech writing support
Listening
We believe our clients bring wisdom to the work we do, and as such, we value beginning our relationship with deep listening.
Because of this, we value having some pathway for dialogue with any prospective clients who send us an RFP for consideration.
Responding
Based what we learn from any prospective client, we design a project proposal tailored to the client’s needs, values, desired outcomes, and ecology.
We tailor our rates for institutional clients based on their field (e.g. corporate, government, private philanthropy, nonprofit) and operating budget. We ask individual clients to honor their class background and economic context when negotiating rates with us.
Honoring Our Lineages
We offer comprehensive, grounded, and intersectional equity praxis services that are intuitive and adaptive in their design. We are informed by lineages of racial justice, cultural justice, gender justice, and disability justice work. The teachers and mentors that Michele has trained and apprenticed with work within these traditions.
Clientele
Our clients have included both organizations and individuals working in the arts, media, entertainment, nonprofits, and philanthropy. Here are a few organizations and initiatives we’ve worked with.
The Mosaic Network and Fund at The New York Community Trust
The Center for Cultural Power
MAP Fund
Constellations Culture Change Fund
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Knight Foundation
Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy
Mellon Foundation
Creatives Rebuild New York
Held in Trust
a cooperative agreement between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC)