“Mary Snow is one of the most thoughtful and effective consultants I’ve ever worked with. She’s committed to the getting the details right and creating awesome agendas and outcomes. She is dedicated to truly knowing and lifting up the people she serves, and to crafting plans that communities are truly excited about and ready to implement. I’ve worked on and off with her for nearly a decade now, and can say that whenever I do so, she’s a force multiplier for positive change. Long story short: if you’re thinking about working with her, do it!
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CONSULTING SERVICES
Grassroots Movement Building
Integrate authentic community engagement practices into your project to ensure voices of those directly impacted by socio-economic issues are heard and represented in solutions.
Meeting Facilitation
Develop participatory agendas to ensure effective, engaging, and results-oriented meetings.
Cross-Sector Collaboration
Facilitate meetings with cross-sector partners to better align projects, analyze and problem solve challenges, develop a collective vision, agree on shared values to guide work, and design locally tailored action plans.
Project Planning, Implementation, & Management
Develop processes, timelines, and accountable management structures that keep projects on track. This includes meeting coordination, note-taking, tracking action items, researching best practices, coaching leaders, conflict mediation, and developing supportive materials.
Event Design
Support the implementation of large scale conferences, workshops, and community events. I can work with you on every detail – the agenda, logistics, invitations, catering, speaker engagement, marketing, communications, and evaluation.
Fundraising
Capture grants from local, regional, and national public and private foundations and federal agencies. I have supported clients to leverage both small scale and large multi-million-dollar grant awards for projects.
Storytelling, Research, Evaluation
My background in journalism reflects my love for people, communities, and culture. I think the best way to learn is to listen deeply to the stories that shape our lives, communities, politics, and society as a whole. My research skills include both storytelling, participatory data collection processes, focus groups, and surveys.