We are prepared to offer you a range of services depending on your current needs. Through our consultation process, we will work together to clarify your needs and design thoughtful, tailored solutions.
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Program Strategy & Design
Najam can work with you to define or clarify the goals, strategies, and activities of an initiative/program, and develop the tools that allow you to implement your vision. For us, strategy goes beyond having a compelling framework with energizing goals. We help our clients translate macro strategies into plans and tools that guide day-to-day decision-making and lead to real results.
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Evaluation & Learning
Najam can help you assess the impact of a program and/or understand what works and what doesn't work with a program or initiative you run. We strive to make evaluation work engaging and nourishing, rather than dry and extractive.
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Equitable Facilitation
Najam can help your team design engaging meetings that lead to clear decisions, strong relationships, and greater alignment. We put a particular emphasis on equity, using technology and anti-oppressive facilitation techniques to design meetings that feel awesome to everyone.
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Equitable Grantmaking
Najam can support you at any stage of your grantmaking journey, and is particularly well versed to support you if you have a desire to embed values of equity and justice into all aspects of your grantmaking. We can help you select a grantmaking strategy that aligns with the needs of communities and your values, design RFP and other grantmaking tools that are user-friendly and accessible, and shape grantmaking processes that are clear, effective, and nourishing for all involved.
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Governance Design
Najam can help you design the decision-making structure and procedures that will guide a new initiative, fund, or program. Our team will help you find the balance between policies and culture that create the foundation for effective collaboration, creativity, and accountability. To do this, we engage in authentic conversations about power, strive to center those most impacted by systemic inequities into decision-making structures, and interrogate traditional models of governance.
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Action-oriented Research
Najam can help you define research questions that will inform a specific decision you are hoping to make or an initiative/program you hope to launch. From there we conduct the research, develop recommendations, and help you make thoughtful decisions.
Client Love
“Kheira is thoughtful, insightful, a pleasure to work with, and a crucial partner in our work.”
- Ryan Strode, Senior Program Officer, Builders Initiative