Hawaii’s biggest, most complex challenges cannot be solved by individual agencies working alone.
We work with public sector leaders, impact investors, social entrepreneurs, and nonprofits to create effective alliances and drive transformative change.
ADVISE AND SUPPORT SYSTEMS CHANGE INITIATIVES
- Educate boards, teams and funders on systems change
- Conduct needs assessments
- Develop a strategic plan, or facilitate strategy sessions, or map an implementation plan
- Conduct situational analyses and baseline studies
- Design workshops with various stakeholders
- Map the ecosystem and relevant actors (we use kumu.io)
- Structure effective coalition, with sum greater than the parts
- Develop the right metrics and measurement strategies
- Develop advocacy strategies and talking points
MANAGE LONG-TERM CHANGE PROGRAMS
- Design and implement change strategy
- Manage alliances of key ecosystem actors – funders, service providers and key stakeholders
- Track and report results
- Perform programmatic changes based on success
Selected work
A sample of our engagements in this service line. Public artifacts are linked; private work is summarized without confidential detail.
Workforce funders collaborative · Hawaii and national foundations
A group of respected Hawaii and national private foundations pooled their resources to reinvent how they fund workforce development: building a broad alliance, backing evidence-based initiatives, focusing advocacy, and opening pathways to high-quality local jobs. GUILD led the year-long design engagement that created the collaborative’s public platform.
See the work: hawaiiwork.org
Hawaii State Department of Health · Emergency funding redesign
Drawing on its learnings from COVID-19, DOH set out to re-examine how it funds the response to health emergencies, so that community-based organizations can reach Hawaii’s most vulnerable populations faster. GUILD supported this redesign, including the exploration of an intermediary organization that works within the limits of procurement-based funding.
