We have an established "visioning" process to bring diverse groups to consensus and to manage multi-stakeholder branding campaigns. Our process includes value setting, action planning, goal setting, check-in measurements and stakeholder communications.

We have helped to build many consortia and coalitions and are skilled at finding natural allies and framing partnerships with reciprocal benefits. Additionally, we have edited two books on effective partnerships; Urban Network: Museums Embracing Communities (2003, University of Chicago Press), and p{ART}ners: Successful Strategies for Developing Arts and Youth (2004, Columbia College Press).

We create media on multiple platforms as part of our PR campaigns, an integrate new and traditional media into the same plans. We produce webisodes in real time and promote them through social media, create dynamic websites, and record live events to amplify client voices.

Our graphic design, branding and marketing materials have and earned our clients top ratings in their industries. We’ve been featured in Creativity, an international advertising and design publication and have won multiple Spectra design awards.

We routinely produce culturally sensitive materials in multiple languages and our team is diverse. For the past three years we have worked to build the Chicago Cultural Alliance, a membership organization of 29 ethnic museums and cultural centers and four institutional partners.

We have worked with urban developers to gain community support for development projects that required zoning changes, annexations and land use approvals by municipal governing boards.

Much of our work takes place at the nexus of institutions and communities. We use an asset-based model for civic engagement, identifying common interests and opportunities for reciprocal benefit and help connect institutions to communities and open two-way communications.