Through strategic planning and advising, organizational development consulting, coaching and training, facilitation, and community engagement, Parallel Solutions helps people build relationships and refine operating practices to grow and sustain impacts.

Strategy

  • Assessing strengths, obstacles, opportunities, risks, threats, assets, capacity, resources, and changing conditions
  • Helping define or refine a mission or vision, or a story to share
  • Clarifying goals and desired outcomes and impacts
  • Exploring and evaluating scenarios 
  • Exploring the feasibility of a new project, program, or campaign 
  • Making decisions about programs or projects 
  • Engaging community members
  • Assessing partnership opportunities
  • Examining revenue models ​
  • Evaluating and preparing policies and procedures
  • Preparing prioritized action plans with clear roles and timelines​
  • Creating aligned staffing plans and budgets
  • Developing dashboards to monitor progress 
  • Advising on governance models and communication processes to help clarify roles and responsibilities, lines of authority, and levels of empowerment in decision-making and strategy execution​​​

Organizational and Professional Development

We provide customized training, workshops, and coaching regarding:
  • Prioritization and strategy execution​
  • Governance design and decision-making models and processes
  • Board development
  • Succession planning
  • Navigating change and addressing resistance
  • Defining communication expectations and building trust and accountability
  • Having "difficult" conversations
  • Giving and receiving feedback
  • Managing healthy tension and addressing unhealthy behaviors
  • Communication expectations and agreements
  • ​Aligning strategy with work plans and budgets
  • Program or campaign feasibility
  • Nonprofit revenue models 
  • Fundraising programs and activities
  • Project management tools and approaches​
  • Collaborative mindsets, skills, and approaches
  • Partnership models, readiness, resources, and tools
  • Building relationships and engaging community ​​

Networks and Partnerships

We specialize in supporting collaborative approaches and public-private, inter-organizational, and inter-jurisdictional partnerships. ​
  • Facilitating conversations when there is uncertainty, confusion, tension, or conflict and support people in their work together to resolve complex or difficult issues that do not have easy or formulaic solutions
  • Designing governance models and processes
  • Clarifying roles and responsibilities, levels of empowerment, and lines of authority
  • Clarifying communication expectations​
  • Preparing Memorandums of Understanding and Partnership Agreements​
  • Creating joint strategic plans and campaigns​
  • Preparing dashboards and accountability tools and processes
  • Supporting merger processes ​ 
  • Mediating conflicts​ ​

Community Engagement

We are committed to creating space for relationship-building, inclusive dialogue, listening, learning, and understanding by:
  • Facilitating private meetings and retreats 
  • Designing and hosting public meetings
  • Hosting focus groups and listening sessions 
  • Conducting surveys and interviews to engage diverse stakeholders​​
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