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Community Allies is a Chicago-based, woman-owned consulting firm founded in 2016 that helps social change organizations amplify their impact through smarter strategy, coalition-building, and facilitated processes. It works with nonprofits, community development financial institutions, government agencies, and funders, specializing in equitable economic development and uplifting locally- and BIPOC-owned businesses.

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Community Building Institute​ The Community Building Institute helps communities and organizations thrive through inclusive, collaborative processes. FACILITATION Big groups. Small groups. Tough groups. EDUCATION ECE. PK12. Higher Ed. STRATEGIC PLANNING Processes. Plans. Results. ENVIRONMENT Large landscapes. Collaborative governance. TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE Complexity. Systems. Futures. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT People. Sustainable. Consensus. ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE CBI... People ask what we do... Is it conflict resolution? Facilitation? Coaching? Civic engagement? Strategic planning? Consensus building? Team building? Organizational development? Systems thinking? As you can imagine, this list goes on. And the answer is yes. Modern practice requires bringing together the best of our social technologies in ways that are matched to the context, the groups, and the client. CBI works with a broad.

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Community Development Solutions, LLC (CDS) is a principal-led boutique consulting firm helping public agencies, housing authorities, nonprofits, and philanthropic partners navigate community development systems and turn federal resources into lasting community impact. Founded and led by Alana C. Green, CDS brings more than 25 years of experience across community development, affordable housing, public administration, and federally funded programs.

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Community Health Solutions provides research, consulting, and learning support to help people create healthier communities. They work across sectors to support community building, capacity building, and system building, and specialize in using the power of networks to help people work together for positive impact. They also run elevation, a nonprofit innovation network.

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Community Language Cooperative (CLC) provides interpretation services, focus groups, and inclusivity/diversity training to make community, academic and governmental events more accessible. Founded in 2014, it began as an interpretation and translation cooperative and grew into a language justice movement across Colorado, centering radical inclusion, sharing power, and dismantling oppressive systems affecting linguistically diverse communities.

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Compass Consulting, led by Chrissy Mahanna, LCSW, provides consulting, coaching, and connecting services. It helps organizations define goals and create roadmaps, offers individual and leadership coaching, and builds professional networks. Chrissy is a Columbia University School of Social Work graduate with 20 years in social service and nonprofit fields, with expertise in program design, KPI development, strategic planning, grant writing, quality improvement, and licensing/accreditation.

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Compass Consulting LLC is a woman-owned small business (WOSB/WBE) and DC Certified Business Enterprise (DC CBE) based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to facilitate the evolution of organizations, teams, and individuals to create impactful change, drawing on neuroscience, emotional intelligence, systems thinking, appreciative inquiry, and related disciplines.

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Compass North Consulting LLC provides personalized program consulting services for social impact organizations. Founded by Erica Olmstead, it helps nonprofits, coalitions, funders and networks tackle complex challenges through strategic collaboration, offering facilitation, strategy, and evaluation support.

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COMPU-TRAIN SERVICES provides instructional design, custom training development, virtual and in-person workshops, software training, eLearning solutions, learning strategy consulting, and facilitation services for meetings, classes, and conferences. Based in Baltimore, Maryland, the company offers classroom, virtual, eLearning, and blended learning tailored to client needs.

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Concerning Learning is a consulting firm founded by Deadra Welcome that creates transformative learning experiences to build thriving, high-performing organizational cultures. It uses strategies in organizational development, performance improvement, and learning design to deliver workshops, coaching, and consulting tailored to client needs.

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Karen Snyder is a keynote speaker, author, leadership trainer, coach and consultant who partners with CEOs and senior leadership teams to improve culture, productivity and profit. She offers keynotes, training sessions, senior leadership retreats, executive and group coaching, and ongoing HR partnerships, in-person and virtually.

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Connect For Collective is a consulting practice led by CEO Kate Trompetter that helps leaders, organizations, and communities build relationships, collective capacity, and courage to take on complex challenges and create lasting change. Its mission is 'to connect for good,' and it offers leadership development, facilitation, relationship-building, and systems-change strategy.

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Connective Consulting, led by communication consultant and certified Maxwell Leadership Team facilitator Amie Tooley, helps leaders and teams in Paducah, Kentucky strengthen communication, build trust, and thrive together. Services include team development workshops, leadership training, and culture coaching, using the Maxwell DISC Assessment to design tailored growth plans and facilitate guided conversations.

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Connect the Dots (CtD) is an outreach and engagement consulting firm focused on connecting the public's voice to decision-making. Founded in 2016 by Marisa Denker with co-founder Naomi Murphy in Ireland, CtD helps agencies, nonprofits, and organizations build accessible, representative public engagement through creative, iterative, people-centered approaches. The firm offers bundled services including Engagement Studio, Engagement Partner, Engagement Academy, and Phase Zero Research.

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Consensus Engagement Design is a consulting firm dedicated to fostering excellence and progress through consensus-building, inclusive engagement, and intentional design. The team of organizational development specialists helps leaders, teams, and stakeholders build alignment, resolve differences, and create collaborative workplaces, serving corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies.

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Consilience Group is a purpose-driven systems transformation firm that helps government, nonprofits, philanthropy, and community organizations strengthen people-centered capacities. For more than twenty-five years it has partnered with leaders to align stakeholders, design services, and improve systems so people get better outcomes.

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Construction Accelerator provides lean construction training, facilitation, and coaching for design and construction teams. Founded in 2019, it offers Last Planner System training and implementation, Lean culture and capability building, an online Learning Management System with short video lessons, Takt planning workshops, Lean assessments, and Lean organizational services including strategic planning, value stream mapping, and rapid improvement events.

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Consult-Train-Coach (CTC) provides consulting, training, and coaching resources for businesses and individuals. CTC offers customized training and assessment solutions, executive and leadership coaching, career and life coaching, mentor coaching, and facilitation. It is a Certified and Authorized Partner in Everything DiSC and Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, and its Coach Certification Training Academy is an ICF Accredited Level One provider.

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Continual Impact provides training, coaching, and facilitation services in Continuous Improvement, using Quality, Lean, Six Sigma, and people-focused methods. They help organizations close performance gaps, build capability, engage teams, and create a culture of continuous improvement across all industries.

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Contribute LLC is a professional communications consultancy based in New York, founded by Christine Healey de Casanova. It creates learning experiences that transform how people communicate at work, delivering training through discussion, coaching, feedback, and deliberate practice. Its methods are refined through 25+ years of partnering with clients across industries and cultures, delivered by global change facilitators.

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Cook + Schmid is a public engagement and engagement marketing firm with more than 20 years of experience designing and implementing stakeholder engagement programs for public and private projects. The company uses data-driven campaigns combining traditional media, public relations, and technology, and employs IAP2 best practices, facilitation, behavior change methods, multicultural marketing, and conflict resolution. CEO Jon Schmid founded the firm focused on a tailored approach to engagement marketing.

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Action-Oriented Facilitation for Results COOLER specializes in planning and facilitating workshops, conferences, and retreats. We also provide ongoing advisory support services to help you create stronger teams and focus on strategic priorities throughout the year. COOLER’s clients include the Smithsonian Institution, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the International Finance Corporation, among others. Our engagements span leadership teams of 6-25 to full teams from 15-500+ people. COOLER helps companies navigate team-building and strategy in dynamic, evolving work environments. Creating space for fresh connections, thinking, and renewed direction drives our event planning, facilitation, and advisory services to support strategic priorities for teams throughout the year.COOLER is known for an outcome-driven approach. We start with your leadership goals and with thorough.

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Co-Optation Learning connects minds and cultivates growth, offering services that unite diverse perspectives to spark dynamic collaboration. The company leverages a network of experienced global facilitators to deliver engaging and interactive training relevant to clients' people, empowering organizations' success on a global scale.

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The Leadership Guru is led by Dr. Cynthia Pace, PhD, CPF, a Diagnostic Facilitator and creator of the Leadership Alignment Framework™. The company provides business facilitation services, including planning and running meetings, events, conferences, retreats, strategic planning, team building, and conflict resolution. Dr. Pace is a Certified Professional Facilitator, Certified Virtual Facilitator, Certified ScrumMaster®, and former U.S. Director of the International Association of Facilitators.

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