Lauren Rayburn specializes in evaluation design, strategic planning, and team building for grassroots groups, small nonprofits, and their funders. Using inclusive and participatory processes, she partners with organizations to co-design programs and culture strategies to align everyday work with what drives meaningful impact in the communities served.
After more than a decade working as an environmental planner, she now uses her background in whole-systems thinking and public engagement to ground strategy and measurement. She specializes in using facilitation techniques that center the voices and experiences of the people whom programs and services are designed to serve. This ensures that evaluation measures, strategic goals & priorities, and everyday actions align with what matters most to those who sit at the center of the work.
Participatory Program Design
Center for Participatory Change (CPC)
Participant Engagement; Co-Facilitation; Coaching
Tiffany DeBellott
Co-Executive Director
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Co-designed and co-facilitated with staff participant engagement efforts (focus groups and interviews). Facilitated staff learning lab focused on insights development and identification of meaningful impact measures. Developed a toolkit documenting efforts and provided strategy coaching.
Participatory Program Design
Building Bridges of Asheville
Participant Engagement; Board Retreat Facilitation; Mission, Vision, and Values Statement (MVV) Development
Niconda Garcia
Board Member
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Designed and implemented participant engagement efforts. Facilitated board retreat and developed new guiding statements (Mission, Vision, and Values).
Organizational Development/Change
Angel K Love Project
Coaching
Michelle Cervantez
Executive Director
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Strategy coaching (using a mind-mapping framework) to ready board for changes in org structure and operations. Using a mind map as a base, staff were able to clearly communicate the desired changes in the form of a visual graphic that was easy to digest.
Organizational Development/Change
JMPRO Community Media
Coaching
Julio Tordoya
Co-Founder and Content Producer
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Strategy coaching focused on defining intentions for a new idea the team wanted to explore, mapping relationships within the org’s ecosystem with an eye towards identifying potential partners and collaborators, and identifying ways to communicate the initial idea while building and solidifying relationships.
Leadership Development/Coaching
Tzedek Social Justice Fund
Annual 360 Review Process Facilitation; Team Building Workshop Facilitation
Libby Kyles
Executive Director
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Two-part Staff Retreat Facilitation (The Art of Giving, Accepting, and Engaging with Feedback); Individual Staff Coaching and thought partnership in processing 360 feedback and in developing committed practices for the upcoming year; Team Building Workshop Facilitation to create shared understanding of team members’ work-styles and work-ways using Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI) Assessment (https://cruciallearning.com/assessments/sdi-assessment/) results as a reference.
Leadership Development/Coaching
Helpmate
Coaching
April Burgess-Johnson
Executive Director
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General leadership and thought partnership coaching on framing collaborative conversations and engaging with emerging issues, included conducting a Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI) Assessment.
Western North Carolina Nonprofit Pathways
P.O. Box 7667
Asheville, NC 28802
Phone: 828-242-9028
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