Our Services

The Insight Center tailors its services to our clients' needs. Examples of our services are provided on each of our program work pages. More broadly, our services include:

• Maximization of financial resources for community economic development (CED)
• Qualitative and quantitative research
• Planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs
• Legal resources to community-based organizations engaged in CED
• Organizational capacity-building and sustainability planning
• Strategic support to foundation initiatives
• Innovative business models such as employee-owned businesses and alternative staffing agencies
• Applied research in areas such as feasibility, scalability, case studies, and best practices
• Training and curriculum development
• Coalition-building
• Policy, advocacy, and communications strategies

 What Makes the Insight Center Unique?

• Broad content knowledge and skills, developed over a 39-year history in community economic development
• A multi-disciplinary, systems approach that links programs, strategies, research, and policy
• A leading reputation in the field and strong links to community-based organizations, businesses, government agencies, foundations, and others
• Commitment  to partnership and to results
• Sensitivity to the needs of our clients
• Experience working with communities of color
• Values of capacity-building and systems change in institutions, industries, and government
• Experience that  spans the spectrum from ground level implementation, to model development and evaluation, to national policy formulation
• Diverse staff with background in a range of industries and disciplines

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