A non-profit, arts, education and community driven consulting group
Empowered is a ground-breaking consulting group transforming how we think about the arts, education, nonprofits, and community impact.
We believe that when we come together to innovate, create, and solve problems, we can achieve systemic change that empowers, uplifts, and transforms our communities.
Overview of Consulting Services
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Build a 2.0 of your organization with strengthened purpose, mission, and financial longevity. Catered to your organization's’ needs, Empowered Development supports you in maximizing your impact, aligning your organization, and being an effective community leader who is able to drive outcomes and fulfill it’s long-term vision
Organizational Profile and Analysis
Financial Wellness 360
Fundraising Development Planning and Support
Evaluation and Impact Measurement
Holistic Strategic Planning (Organizational and DEIA)
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Our personalized grants services bring customer service to grants acquisition while keeping you in the know and mission aligned. With a team of grants researchers always vetting grant opportunities and strategically doing outreach to funders, our grants support is guaranteed to improve your funding strategy, strengthen your applications, and innovate programming through:
Grant Research, Vetting, and Prospecting Framework
Programming Ideation
Proposal Writing and Editing
Empowered Grants Opportunity Alerts
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Community engagement is at the heart of Empowered getting the feedback you need to transform your organizations’ work, Deliver greater impact with community relevant programs, strategic planning, advocacy, training materials, and more! Designed by skilled qualitative researchers, our engagement approach centers culturally responsive practices, empowerment, multidirectional sharing, and diverse participation. Put data into action with:
K-12 Family Engagement
Equity-Centered Survey Design
Interviews
Focus Groups - Listening Sessions
Reporting and Recommendations
Event Management and Community Coalition Building
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Empowered in-house translation services make translation quick and seamless for our projects and yours. With over 18 languages, our translation team helps you enhance accessibility and build welcoming spaces:
Locally Relevant Languages
Written Translation
Live Interpretation
Monthly Translation Subscription Service
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Playing to our strengths and values, Empowered Culturally Responsive Project Management enhances your key projects with our strategic capacity and cultural awareness. Our Special Projects Managers are highly competent in project management, partnership facilitation, program development, evaluation, and continuous improvement that will make your projects more effective and applicable to the community. Projects may include:
Communications, Outreach, and Engagement Planning
Program Development and Management
Training Module Development
Board of Directors Improvement and Development
DEIA Initiatives
Passionate about making a difference.
Committed to empowering people, organizations, and communities.
C L I E N T
S P O T L I G H T
Empowered is renewing our contract to administer Colorado’s 2024-2025 Poetry Out Loud program. In our first year administering the program, we introduced regional qualifiers and Poetry Ourselves, an original poetry contest. 2,195 students participated from 13 schools across the state.
Learn more about the 2024-2025 competition!
2023-2024 State Champion, Rize Simmons recites
“Songs for the People”
Service Leadership
Collective Empowerment
Leading with Integrity
Cultural Responsiveness
Collaborative Creativity