Custom Engagements

“We recognize that a commitment to becoming a multicultural, inclusive and (racially equitable) organization is not the same as actually becoming one”

— Inspired by “Policy Statement on Undoing Institutional Racism”  Children’s Alliance (WA)

What you can expect from a customized engagement

Use to solve specific organizational challenges

Stamey Street offers customized engagements for clients seeking systemic, cross-functional practice change or deep work in one area. These engagements are typically long-term, usually 6+ months, and involve adaptive and technical work across the organization and within teams. Clients who engage Stamey Street for a custom project have access to the full range of my services – depending on the project’s scope of work.

Recommended for nonprofits or businesses in Phases 2, 3 or 4.

A customized engagement includes

  • Planning and co-design with my client

  • Tools that clients can use in future versions and in other areas

  • Data collection on an as needed basis

  • Regular check-ins to solve problems and meet deadlines

  • Written plan connected to specfic project outcomes

  • Systems support implementation and sustainability

How clients use

Here are some of the ways that clients use this service

Here are some of the ways that clients use this service

Here are a few examples where clients have engaged Stamey Street using a retainer: 

  • Plan and support executive leadership transitions

  • Establish an organizational “Equity Why”

  • Design a set of strategies to engage a nonprofit’s Board of Directors to create its “Equity Why”

  • Document reviews for framing, language, and process considerations

  • Create group norms and organizational decision-making processes

How to start an engagement

We start each engagement with an in-depth discovery process that produces an “Equity Why” for the project before we start our work together. Here are two things to know about Stamey Street’s discovery process.

  1. It is often more than one phone call, though a call is how we start an engagement.

  2. I’ll want to connect with a small group of staff as part of the process.

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