Who We Work With:
Service-Providing Nonprofit Organizations - Develop cultural competence and discover insights held among diverse constituencies. Enhance service quality and delivery, fostering lasting client satisfaction.
Governmental Agencies - Cultivate sustainability, decrease greenhouse gases, and develop actionable energy plans.
Hospitals, Architects, and Institutional Developers - Through roundtables, feedback sessions, and surveys, we uncover hidden needs, wants, and desires to help institutions better serve diverse constituencies. Our work impacts architectural design to address social and cultural needs, along with service and operational needs of practitioners at the facility.
What We Do:
We plan, launch and manage programs that support the environment and community.
We work with clients throughout the process to ensure successful implementation for future program growth.
Programs can include, but are not limited to:
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Sustainability, Resiliency, and Climate Action Planning
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Strategic Planning
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Project Design and Implementation
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Fundraising
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Community Engagement
How We Do it:
Empowered Solutions Collective works with your organization to identify and develop programming necessary in communities around the Midwest to enrich environmental and community resiliency. We can work with you at several phases of project development:
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Concept Development - During project discovery, Empowered Solutions Collective gathers input from internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities, needs, and pathways to solutions.
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Project Formulation - Based on existing research or our prior discovery, we structure and scope project work, events, workshops, and future work phases to achieve the goals stated at project outset.
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Project Activation - When you need an implementation partner, we source the right team members and put projects into action. We train and develop your internal team or find the right partners and run projects from start to finish.
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Project Evaluation - Upon project completion, it can be important to bring on a third-party team to evaluate and assess performance against stated objectives. We develop and implement assessment programs to uncover successes and opportunities for future development.
Sustainability
Planning
Empowered Solutions works with your organization to shape the long-term environmental resiliency and sustainability of your organization and the larger community. Each program is tailored to your goals. Projects can include facilitating sustainability assessments, short-term solutions for community environmental impact, program development, recommendations for staged implementation, planned response to environmental crises, and collaboration with area organizations dedicated to sustainability.
Past Projects
Organizational Development
Empowered Solutions excels in guiding organizations through strategic planning, team development, and professional growth. We provide staff retention consulting and conflict resolution to foster a thriving and cohesive work environment. With a focus on project planning and implementation, Empowered Solutions is a catalyst for organizational success. We emphasize the importance and power of DEI&B in all of our organizational work.
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Strategic planning facilitation
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Staff retreat facilitation
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Team development book club facilitation
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Staff retention consulting
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Diversity and Belonging activation
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Conflict resolution
Community Storytelling
Empowered Solutions Collective supports communities and organizations in using storytelling to surface lived experience, strengthen connection, and inform meaningful action. Our storytelling work centers community voice — translating research, listening, and planning into narratives that build understanding, trust, and momentum.
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Arts and storytelling-based curriculum development
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Community-informed design and narrative development
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Focus groups and listening sessions
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Youth-led storytelling projects
Examples of Work
Celebrating Black Climate Week with Iowa climate scientist and activist Tamara Marcus
Bettendorf talk to focus on inclusive climate action
Linn County Youth Experience True Wilderness Along The Continental Divide
Past Projects
Fundraising
Our capital campaign consulting ensures ambitious initiatives receive the support they need. Through meticulous project feasibility studies, they provide a roadmap for success. Fundraising, for any organization, includes many channels for income generation. Empowered Solutions takes fundraising to new heights, developing strategic insights to empower your capital campaigns. We ensure ambitious initiatives receive the support they need by developing and implementing a roadmap for success. With a flair for event design and management, fundraising efforts become engaging and impactful. Empowered Solutions also shines in grant writing services, securing essential resources for the realization of visionary projects.
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Grant Writing
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Fundraising event design and management
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Donor development
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Fundraising professional development
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Project/funding feasibility studies
Meet some of our delivery partners
Stacey Walker
Supporting higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations through strategic fundraising and development work grounded in values, impact, and institutional integrity, Stacey Walker's expertise spans campaign strategy, donor engagement, and strengthening the systems and relationships that sustain mission-driven organizations over time.
Nicole Weber
Supporting political candidates and campaigns, nonprofit organizations, and mission-driven projects through thoughtful visual design, Nicole Weber's work includes creating and designing reports, logos, and other communication materials to clearly share each organization's work and values. Nicole brings a practical, collaborative approach to design, translating complex ideas into accessible, visually compelling materials.
Murdock Media Production
Murdock Media Production helps mission-driven organizations clarify their story so the right audiences understand their work, trust their leadership, and are motivated to support their mission using strategic storytelling, content, and media. Stories are produced and distributed through, SEO, social media, broadcast, installation, and other distribution channels.