FAQs

Yes. Many partners come to us at the “we know something needs to change, but we're not sure how” stage — that’s our favorite place to begin.

Absolutely. We help clarify vision, test ideas, and turn concepts into grounded strategies, pilots, and projects.

Yes. We design and facilitate meaningful engagement that builds trust, strengthens outcomes, and deepens community ownership.

Yes — we partner across sectors, from grassroots teams to city agencies, philanthropic organizations, and developers.

We support strategic planning, urban planning, research, cultural programming, capacity-building, and community-centered public space activations. If the project fits with our ethos, we’ll take it on.

Yes. We help teams realign around values, sharpen mission and direction, and design pathways for organizational focus and impact.

We approach engagement with humility, curiosity, and care. We take time to understand people and place, and we center relationships every step of the way.

We are continually learning and evolving our practice to ensure care, equity, and cultural integrity in everything we do.

We do. We scope projects to fit needs, phases, and capacity — and we often build flexible options for emerging initiatives.

Give us your budget and we’ll build a scope that fits.

Yes — we assist with identifying funding pathways and crafting narratives and proposals.

We are based in Philadelphia and collaborate nationally on projects aligned with our mission and values.

Do you offer grant writing as a standalone service?
We integrate grant writing within our Initiative & Coalition Development work. Since these projects require strategy, alignment, and partnership development and coordination, the grant proposal becomes one part of a larger initiative-building process rather than an isolated task.

How does pricing for grant development work?
Grant development is included through a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) structure.
This ensures clarity, fairness, and transparency:

• The fixed fee is based on a tiered system depending on grant size. It covers strategy, project framing, research, funder alignment, and development of core proposal materials.

• The hourly portion covers the actual writing, revisions, formatting, and submission preparation.

These fees reflect pre-award work that is completed regardless of the funding outcome. This approach is standard practice and ensures initiatives receive the time, care, and strategy they require.