Featured Intervention:
Consulting Academy™

Building local capacity one consultant at a time.

Upgrade Your Skills to Upgrade Your Life

Common Ground frequently provides assessment, capacity building, and institutional strengthening support to development projects around the world. In these projects, we bring a unique skill set and cutting-edge tools that make our involvement essential. Often, however, as the work evolves, we find that there are terrific local consultants who—with additional support and training—could provide many of these services.

In these cases, we’ve designed an approach to building authentic local consulting capacity to meet those needs, and better align with our own development philosophy and values. Specifically, we want to create new avenues for future organizational strengthening that aren’t dependent on Common Ground, the project, or its donor.

Our curriculum is highly-adaptable and is easily tailored to the capacity building priorities of a project. The model includes local consultant selection criteria, application protocols, 3 and 5-day training curriculum, and a series of relevant half and full-day follow-on skills-building workshops: strategic planning, governance, communications and social media, etc.

We think the model is also perfect for foundation staff who are increasingly being asked to support (and provide) institutional strengthening assistance to their grantees.

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We promise: We will exceed your expectations.

7 Solid Reasons to Work With Common Ground

  • We understand your work is hard. We meet you where you are. We get to know you. We earn your trust.

  • We’re practical and results-oriented. We won’t waste your time and we won’t try to sell you something you don’t need.

  • We’re catalysts for change and we bring leading-edge tools to help you achieve transformational results.

  • We’re honest brokers who will not shy away from speaking truth to power and holding you accountable to your mission and vision.

  • We think with our head and our hearts and we only work with clients whose work captures our imagination.

  • We’ll likely fall in love with your organization and the people whose lives are made better through your work.

  • We are direct, professional, and responsive. We deliver on our promises.

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