Project Recaps
The following is a partial list of consulting projects and summaries.
United Way - Investment Strategies
Community Engagement Tools
Produced DVD/photo tools to kickoff strategic planning sessions, web surveys, and development planning with 400 partners/agencies in seven Bay Area counties. Materials cover United Way history, mission, investment strategies, and inspiring nonprofits and institutions focused on disaster preparedness, children, youth and working families.
Delivery: May 2007 to Present
California Endowment
Healthy Kids Healthy Future
Overview of Sacramento regional children’s health initiative, this DVD shares facts on California’s uninsured, and details strategies to expand coverage through collaborating foundations, state/local government, provider networks, and First 5 commissions. Includes interviews with physicians, policymakers, advocates, families and children.
Delivery: September 2006 to February 2007
Positive Resource Center
20th Anniversary Gala
Documentation of 20th Anniversary galas for the Positive Resource Center – an agency providing comprehensive employment and benefits counseling services for people living with HIV/AIDS. Captured decathlon, musical performance by Ce Ce Peniston, and awards for key supporters. Video and website clips support fundraising, volunteer motivation and future event publicity.
Delivery: October 2007 to Present
Binational Policy Forum
Migration & Health
This framed image "Nectarine Harvest in Cutler" by Jim Bracken was presented to speakers, policymakers and attendees at the 8th Annual Binational Health Forum of UC Berkeley and the Mexican government. Forum addressed global health, migration and disease, occupational safety, and health of vulnerable groups (those with disabilities and agricultural workers.)
Delivery: October 2007
Larkin Street Youth Services
Corporate Sponsor Outreach
Editing production to update executive summary mission statement for Larkin Street Youth Services, a San Francisco agency providing training, employment development, referral services and counseling to homeless youth. Video materials tailored for use at business executives fundraising breakfast.
Delivery: June 2006
Contra Costa Conservation District
Mt. Diablo Watershed Plan
DVD recaps recommendations of a year-long community planning process. Project encourages public/private sector watershed stewardship, to attract funders, advocates, residents, partners - and integrate environmental concerns into community development strategies.
Delivery: December 2006 to September 2007
Community Development Technologies Center
CDTech: Creating Communities that Work
Production of a special event video to recognize partners and community building strategies for a 10th anniversary gala. Consultation for website design, edits and streaming. CDTech leads comprehensive asset building, community organizing, workforce development, mortgage training, financial literacy and college partnerships for inner city LA residents.
Delivery: August 2005 to May 2006
First 5 Sacramento County Commission
Community Building Initiative
Video documentation, outreach and social marketing support. Produced bilingual outreach capsules, collateral, mission statements, public affairs TV programs and PSAs. Partnered with the Center for Collaborative Planning, Harder & Company and Sacramento Enriches, to promote neighborhood grants that reinforce First Five Sacramento goals.
Delivery: August 2004 to present
Levi Strauss Foundation
Latin American HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategies
Bilingual video editing support to Latin American grant making for HIV intervention strategies in Uruguay and Argentina. Translation of materials and coordination of messages to employee and external stakeholders and agencies. Consulting strategies developed for website, special events, and other communications.
Delivery: January 2005 - March 2006
Fresno County Workforce Investment Board
& Janzen IdeaCorp
What Works? Business Sector Best Practices
Training consultation, design and photography services to support re-tooling and repackaging of a day-long manager training in seminars for use nationally. The goal is to share business sector best practices for workforce training.
Delivery: March 2006
Civic Engagement Project for Children & Families
Bilingual Community Outreach Video Tool Kit
To prompt community influence in California First 5 commissions, as related to Prop 10 moneys (tobacco tax funds programs serving families and children, pre-natal to age 5.) Produced and distributed, bilingual multi-use packages (video stories, talking points, adaptable electronic copies.) Kits spotlight local creativity by grassroots leaders, and accompany CEP Best Practices manual.
700 English/Spanish toolkits provided free to groups statewide to spark resident engagement. Tools presented at California First 5 conferences (2002-2003), to showcase efforts by philanthropic consortium (David & Lucille Packard Foundation; James Irvine Foundation; Walter & Elise Haas Fund; Miriam & Peter Haas Fund; Peninsula Community Foundation; San Francisco Foundation; U C Davis.)
Delivery: June 2001 - November 2004
James Irvine Foundation
Central Valley Partnership for Citizenship
Multi-faceted long term consulting to encourage integrated, grassroots media and video capacity for network of immigrant-focused agencies. Provided grantwriting ($400,000 approved), group facilitation, and project management to install, train and equip to generate weekly Hmong/Latino shows. Related video projects follow.
Delivery: June 1996 to September 2002
- Turning Toward the Other California: Engaging Communities in California’s Heartland - An overview of CVP efforts to seed leadership and engagement by Central Valley immigrants and refugees, so that residents are involved in decisions affecting development of their communities, and improving the quality of their own lives.
- Tamejavi Cultural Arts Festival - Vignettes of performers, music, crafts, booths and resources from ethnic celebration in Fresno Tower District. Live broadcast during event on KNXT- TV Fresno.
- Jefferson Neighborhood Planning Process – Worked with One-by-One Leadership Foundation to document community visions and plans in a low income, immigrant and refugee neighborhood. Spanish/Hmong versions edited for TV and radio outreach, city government and urban planners.
- Civic Participation / Civic Action Network Grants Program – Outreach piece for community meetings, TV and radio outreach promoting small grants targeted to disenfranchised neighborhood groups throughout the Central Valley.
- We Can Help: Census 2000 Outreach Messages – Distributed statewide to 180 agencies, English/Spanish/Chinese video tools for rural communities, promoting Census 2000 inclusion. Synergy with for TV, radio, house meetings.
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center/Steps to Naturalization – Agency waiting room/outreach. Spanish overview for applicants.
- Election 2000 Outreach Messages – Latino outreach stories, voter education and voter promotion tools.
First 5 San Francisco Commission
Parent Action Grants Program
Video documentation of innovative grants program. Spanish, Cantonese and English edits show compelling vignettes of parent participation in four distinct San Francisco neighborhoods. Consulting for DVD and web outreach.
Delivery: January 2005
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Neighborhood Improvement Initiative Overviews
Engaging resident partners, videos recapped three efforts for $6 million, 6 year comprehensive community building initiatives in target areas: San Jose/Mayfair District; West Oakland / 7th Street Corridor and East Palo Alto. Partnered with Foundation Silicon Valley, San Francisco Foundation and Peninsula Community Foundation.
Videos reflect on neighborhood histories, challenges, assets, and resident community planning (e.g. housing, jobs, education, health care, safety, cultural diversity.) Produced Mayfair video Spanish edit.
Delivery: December 1997 – July 2000
Adopt-A-Watershed
Program Overview and Outreach Tool
Highlights of place-based volunteerism and environmental curricula packaged to build local environmental stewardship, galvanize residents – as complement to curricula for teachers striving to meet academic standards. Video describes a land-based learning model, and shows how diverse networks across the state interpret these goals to their own benefit.
Delivery: January 2005
First 5 California Association
Promising Approaches to Systems Change & Collaboration
Video documentation and web streaming of the Bay Area First 5 Association convening. Marketing of speaker presentations and Powerpoints, for distance learning and review via First 5 California Association website - in order to share best practices, expertise and incentive for other commissions developing collaboration strategies.
Delivery: July 2004
Relational Culture Institute
& Mennonite Central Committee
The Raisin City Story
Short documentary chronicles the self-empowerment of low income rural neighbors who rebuilt a dilapidated park, and sparked critical changes (paved roads, sewer systems.) Institutional edit promotes church-based strategies in California.
Delivery: March 2004
First 5 San Mateo County Commission
New Parent Kit Outreach Video & Waiting Room Loop
English and Spanish outreach materials for distribution through clinics and provider networks, to drive community partner engagement. Produced with support of the I Am Your Child Foundation, including excerpts of First 5 California New Parent Kits, with prompts for parents to order kits. Promo tapes included interviews with range of parents, childcare and clinic workers - to build the network, and drive easy access to free parent training materials.
Delivery: March 2004
San Francisco Foundation
2000 Community Leadership Awards
Awards presentation reel for City Hall gala, with biographical clips, clients, stakeholders and peers. Honorees featured: Margarete Connolly (mental health advocate); Martin Jacks (mentoring trainer); Building Futures for Women & Children (domestic violence shelter); and Cultural Odyssey’s Medea Project
(rehabilitation for incarcerated women.)
Delivery: December 2000
First 5 Contra Costa County Commission
Strategies for Civic Engagement
An overview of commission strategies for civic engagement (Family Resource Centers, Volunteerism, Small Grants) produced through English/Spanish outreach videos meant to broaden awareness of commission goals and build collaboration countywide. Special version edited with leader stories for Community Partner Awards Event.
Delivery: February 2002 - February 2004
California Institute for Rural Studies
& California Endowment
Research Summary: Suffering in Silence
Illustrated research from extensive farmworker health survey. B-roll edits expanded news coverage of findings. Bilingual translations supported local health promotion and mobilization efforts to deepen awareness of health care disparities (culturally competent care, lack of insurance, disease patterns from lifestyle and poverty.)
Delivery: December 2002
Mentoring Center
10th Anniversary Celebration Video
Describes program model, growth, and accomplishments of Oakland-based program that creates and shares mentoring curricula nationally – offering alternatives to incarcerated African American males, at-risk and emancipated youth.
Delivery: January 2001
First 5 San Diego County Commission
First 5 San Diego Strategies
English and Spanish versions of outreach and mission statement messages were packaged for stakeholders and local partner groups. Materials describe research on school readiness efforts, and show diverse approaches to meet goals.
Delivery: February 2003
Women’s Health Collaborative
& California Wellness Foundation
Women’s Health: Our View. Our Words. Our Work.
Celebrating achievements and assessing statewide outcomes, this video summarized a five year grant cycle for a coalition of women’s health providers, advocates, policymakers, researchers, and grassroots peer leaders. Also framed research and solutions to unmet health delivery needs of women of color, with outreach models, and capacity building strategies.
Delivery: April 1999
Marin Community Foundation
Marin City Project: On this Rock We Stand
As a capstone piece describing a decade-long, comprehensive community building effort, this video presents voices of resident leaders, local historians, funders and youth. The video demonstrates a community’s commitment to retain cultural diversity while pursuing community health on all levels (e.g. physical assets, economic growth, support services)
Delivery: November 1998
James Irvine Foundation
California’s Civic Entrepreneurs
Documenting impacts of a regional economic development movement in California, this summit keynote reel shares innovative approaches by civic leaders statewide. Aware that regional collaborations strengthen economies and quality of life in today’s global economy - these leaders describe lessons learned for driving lasting, interconnected outcomes (from jobs, to environmental quality, to socio-economic and cultural inclusion.)
Delivery: September 1998
Polaris Research
& California AIDS Prevention Campaign
Protecting Your Customers. Protecting Your Friends.
This outreach video targets African American and Latino populations at high risk for seroconversion. Distributed through networks of hairdressers and barber shops, this tool is an overview of an innovative strategy banking on the trusting rapport between hair stylists and customers, to disseminate HIV prevention materials.
Delivery: May 1996
National Economic Development & Law Center
Community Economic Development at the Crossroads
Created for a special event marking the 25th Anniversary of a center for technical assistance and legal advocacy in rural poor communities. Showing improvements in housing, roads, daycare, and minority/gender based job training – the video describes community development trends supported by the agency and its partners.
Delivery: February 1995
San Francisco Human Services Network
Mission Statement & Member Update
This piece captures the mission of a growing non-profit association that supports constructive dialogue, strengthens services, and promotes equitable collaboration between San Francisco government and nonprofits. First shared at membership convening, to illustrate comprehensive survey of non-profits. Video helps in recruiting new member agencies, informs agency staff and boards of directors, and highlights network achievements and unifying concerns.
Delivery: June 2002
Northern California Grantmakers
What We've Learned: A Task Force on Homelessness
Illustrating an evaluation of this groundbreaking task force, this video shares learning gained from multi-disciplinary strategies and grants to alleviate homelessness in the Bay Area. Interviews include homeless individuals, training specialists, mental health and housing advocates, and community outreach workers.
Delivery: May 1996
James Irvine Foundation
An Evaluation of HIV-AIDS Grants: 1988-1993
Headquartered at the epicenter of an epidemic, the James Irvine Foundation was a pioneer funder for AIDS prevention, research and community intervention. An executive evaluation summary, this video captured learning gained by the grants strategy, as told by medical experts, service providers, outreach workers and persons living with AIDS.
Delivery: May 1994
James Irvine Foundation
Program Related Investment Loan Fund
A foundation board of directors synopsis, this video includes virtual tours, grantee interviews, statistics and accounts of community building projects of this revolving loan fund. Examples presented were rural Central Valley economic development, legal advocacy and referral services in San Francisco’s Mission District, and affordable housing in Richmond.
Delivery: May 1994
Women's Health Leadership Program
& Public Health Institute
Leadership for Change
Documentation of peer training program to bridge health systems to under-represented populations, immigrant and minority women. An overview of innovative, interdisciplinary impacts (300 graduates, extensive alumni network.) Video touches on the training curricula, goals of peer learning, and regional outcomes informing public policy.
Delivery: December 2002