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DEVELOPMENT
We help organizations hone missions, align core values, plan strategically, support teams, and engage communities.
We love to support brilliant civic, arts, and culture organizations. We know that consistently making mission-aligned decisions, connecting with communities, listening to each other, and sustaining the work over the long-term can be challenging.
Buscada’s organization development workshops make space for dialogue and provide mission-driven organizations with co-designed tools for values-based decision-making and assessment that every member of an organization has contributed to, and feels invested in.
Buscada is brilliant at gathering stakeholders and has synthesized our many activities into a coherent tool that helps clarify who we are and where we're going.
Cathy Linh Che
Executive Director, Kundiman
Thank you, Gabrielle & Kaushik,
for being our guides, collaborators, instigators, questioners, and so much more!
for being our guides, collaborators, instigators, questioners, and so much more!
Kemi Ilesanmi
Former Executive Director, The Laundromat Project
WAYS TO WORK WITH US
A sampling of ways to work with us is below, and you can read our full offerings in this pdf.
Core values and community workshops
1 day to 1 week
“Working with People” core values staff workshops, or
Board engagement workshops, or
Working in community, workshops using the Community Connection Cards
Core values and strategic thinking workshops
1 to 2 months
“Working with People” core values staff workshops
Working in community, workshops using the Community Connection Cards
Mini How might we…?Mission and Vision clarification & strategic grounding
Staff development, growth, and hiring plans
1 to 2 months
“Working with People” core values staff workshops
Staff Growth
Hiring Plan
Full strategic planning & staff development
6 to 8 months
“Working with People” core values staff workshops
Working in community, workshops using the Community Connection Cards
Mission and Vision clarification
Strategic grounding
Board engagement workshops
Full “How Might We…? Strategic Framework
Staff Growth
Near-term planning
SELECTED ORG DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
SELECTED STRATEGIC PROJECTS
The Laundromat Project Growth Practice Cards
A tool for staff growth, created in collaboration with the LP. The LP Growth Deck breaks down skills and staff growth into approachable, tangible practices, to empower staff development and demystify the process of growth and progress.
Community Connections Cards
A tool for strengthening community relationships, created in collaboration with FAB. The Community Connection Cards provide pragmatic pathways for reflecting on and deepening relationships in order to strengthen connection, build equity, and thoughtfully expand as an inclusive community.
Asian American Writers Workshop strategic planning process
An actionable strategic plan for a literary organization that cultivates a community of Asian American writers and projects a radical inclusivity of both who is a writer and who is Asian.
Arts Networks & Peer Learning
Strategic realignment work with FABnyc about how learning spaces and peer networks help sustain the arts through challenging times
The Laundromat Project Strategic Plan
A new strategic plan for a POC-centered organization that advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their communities.
Working with People
One of our tools for facilitating dialogue on the core values and keywords of community-based practice.
Changing Cities
Telling an organization's story in public: an exhibition exploring histories of planning through MIT’s School of Architecture + Planning.
The America Project
The America Project: A Teaching Method for Collaboration, Creativity, and Citizenship is based on the work of Sekou Sundiata and is a guide to community engagement, collaborative pedagogy, critical thinking, and social practice art work.
Our full strategic services
Download the pdf to explore all of our workshops and strategic modules in depth.