Client List 1993 - 2006 (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.

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

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 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.

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

Facilitated strategic thinking sessions with Trustees, staff, partners, and grantees as the Foundation reshaped its grant-making around a new focus to “move the needle on poverty.”

Ken Hubbell and Associates has worked with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation on a number of projects as well as internally at the WKKF headquarters in Battle Creek, MI.

• Mid South Delta Initiative
  Since 1996, our firm worked extensively with 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. Our firm was a member of the core planning team that has shaped the Initiative and its future using tools like scenario planning. In addition to our role as planners, we also:
  
  • Served as the “communications hub” for the Initiative, designing, producing and distributing electronic and print newsletters, quarterly color magazines—Imagine the New Delta; impact reports and county-specific maps portraying the activities and outputs of grantees' work in the region; creating and managing two successful websites around a campaign of lifting up the Delta and convening regional conferences;
  • Facilitated design meetings to design and plan a Center for Change in the Delta and cofacilitated the Delta Funders Group, a network of over 20 private and community foundations that invest in the region and its people.
  • Coached one of the MSDI grantees-a bi-racial group of community volunteers engaged in planning tourism development for rural Louisiana;
  • Coordinated multiple “listening tours” of the region for the Foundation Board of Trustees and program staff;
  • Conducted site visits and community outreach meetings as the initiative expanded to include 15 community-level grantees;
  • Developed a technology capacity building and training series for grantees
  
  
  
• Food Systems and Rural Development
  Ken Hubbell & Associates synthesized various program documents to Create a theory of change that had been in use by FSRD along with indicators and graphic diagrams to explain the core program logic.
  
  • W. K. Kellogg Foundation-Internal
    Ken Hubbell and Associates has also worked with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation internally:
  • Designed and facilitated strategic planning retreats for the Foundation's Diversity Advisory Committee and for the Human Resources Department in October and November 2003;
  • Surveyed US organizations and firms that provide communication and media training to nonprofits and developed a Resource Directory for the Foundation's Communication office.