Client List 1993 - 2009 (Alphabetical Order P - Z)

• Designed and facilitated a year-long community strategic planning and leadership development process with 7 teams of community volunteers. This work was built around monthly training institutes and involved data gathering through business surveys and asset mapping and helping train teams to lead a regional redevelopment movement.

• Partnered with another firm to guide a large team of municipal governments and agencies, universities, and over 90 neighborhood associations, industries, community-based organizations, youth and faith-based groups around Little Rock through the 1998 comprehensive Empowerment Zone planning process that led to a $140 million economic and human development plan. The partners were selected by HUD as a Strategic Planning City, one that is eligible for $3 million in additional community development grants.

• Provided training and strategic planning for community-based nonprofit organizations for this alliance of neighborhood development corporations in central Arkansas.

• Designed major, historic exhibit hall; researched and prepared interpretive concept for post-WWII era, highlighting the impact of poultry on NW Arkansas

• Guided organizational strategic planning processes and provided management consulting services for a 22-member collaborative working in persistently poor rural communities.

• Designed workshop on leadership and comprehensive community development using six interlocking systems.

• Developed downtown renewal plan and investor targets for municipal economic development bond package in Helena that was orchestrated by this large for-profit finance corporation.

• Developed a strategic planning retreat for this national group of state chapters and tribes that, along with the National Park Service, guide research and interpretation about the American Indian history of forced removal of Cherokee people from the southeast to reservations in the west during the 1830s.

• Designed and delivered training on using the Internet to support community development and on designing statewide rural development conferences enhancing community-based development for Rural Development staff at national training conference. Developed and delivered workshops on locating foundation funds to support rural development for EZ Round II workshops in 1998.

• Designed and facilitated leadership workshops centered on the challenges of bringing the knowledge economy and complex networks to rural communities. Since 1999, we've been a partner in the Vision 2010 Initiative, which helps communities include technology in their development plans.

• Participated on evaluation team leading three-year intensive case-study of Foundation for the Mid South' Workforce Alliance initiative in Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi; wrote analytical reports on trends and central issues: Building Civic Infrastructure & Social Capital to Lead Community Change and Develop Competitive Workforces in the Delta.

• Led strategic planning for global staff and consultants managing African Women Leaders in Agriculture & Environment initiative in the Ivory Coast, Mali, and Senegal.

• KHA provided facilitation and strategic thinking services to the foundation as it reshaped its grant-making focus around moving the needle to reduce poverty in Arkansas. We designed learning events for grantees, staff, and board.

  We continue assisting the foundation in collaboration with other organizations in the state that were created by former Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller to accelerate economic and social change.

Ken Hubbell and Associates has worked with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation on a number of projects as well as internally at the foundation for its human resources department and diversity committee.

• Our primary work was concentrated around the Mid South Delta Initiative.
  From 1996-2008, our firm provided strategy, communications, and community coaching for the Foundation on its Mid South Delta Initiative (MSDI), which entails an investment of more than $60 million in a 55-county region of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
• We co-facilitated an informal philanthropic network of 23 foundations that fund in the Mississippi Delta as well as a design group charged with framing a Center on Change.
• KHA created broad strategic communications campaign, Lifting Up the Delta and served as the "communications hub" for the Initiative, designing, producing quarterly magazines (Imagine the New Delta) and distributing electronic and print newsletters, impact reports and county-specific maps portraying the activities and outputs of grantees' work in the region; creating and updating websites and databases convening regional communications conferences.
• Ken Hubbell coached for three years one of the MSDI grantees-a bi-racial group of community volunteers engaged in planning tourism development for rural Louisiana;
• Our firm coordinated several "listening tours" of the region for the Foundation Board of Trustees and program staff.

• Facilitated planning for a community training and enrichment center and prepared conceptual proposal for grant requests.