Services
Our communications and consulting services are comprehensive. We support you by providing the insights, connections, and tools that build your capacity and increase your impact.
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Design & Data Visualization
Our award-winning creative team specializes in creating imaginative designs that express the ideas and perspectives that animate your organization’s work and brand. We approach every design challenge, be it a complex data visualization tool or a simple fact sheet, with the same ingenuity and desire to communicate clearly and move audiences to action.
Digital Solutions
Digital platforms have made reaching your audiences more complex, which demands more sophisticated strategies and content. We help you position the right messages on the right platforms at the right time.
With deep knowledge of the fields of education, learning, and youth development, we know and understand your stakeholders. So we can tailor strategies, content, and messaging that will resonate with those you seek to engage and position you to build relationships.
Events
Our events move new ideas forward and forge connections among the individuals and organizations who shape the learning and education landscape. Whether your event is a small gathering for a leadership strategy session or a convention with thousands of participants, our events team has the know-how, skills and dedication to help you design and implement every stage of it.
Media & Engagement
Our comprehensive approach to media strategy and audience engagement is rooted in our commitment to helping our clients achieve transformative changes and expand opportunities. We can help you tell your stories and share important ideas in ways that lead to progress on the issues that matter most to you.
Research & Reporting
Data, research, and analytical insights not only provide the knowledge base on which your strategies are based, they also animate the public dialogue about your core issues. Our research and editorial team excels at taking complex information and distilling it into actionable insights. We can help you create the knowledge products that not only inform efforts to build public understanding of your priority issues and your work, but which also contribute to your own organizational decision-making processes.
Strategic Planning
Bold strategic planning and strong operational models are essential for organizations that seek to make a difference and sustain their efforts over time. Our team of experienced business leaders will help you assess where your organization is, where it is going, and where it might go next–and help you develop a roadmap to get there.
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How We Approach Events
Our Events team provides all-encompassing services, covering a wide range of in-person, hybrid, and virtual events from start to finish.
Whether it’s an event for 10 people or 2,500, the events team brings creativity and precision to every aspect of event planning and management. We are dedicated and experienced professionals who ensure seamless execution and unforgettable experiences for clients and attendees alike.
For in-person events, we offer:
- Hotel and other venue site selection
- Venue contract negotiation
- Vender research and contract negotiation
- Project management
- Event agendas and timelines
- Budget preparation, management, and reconciliation
- Online and onsite registration
- Rooming list management
- Travel logistics and transportation
- VIP and special guest coordination
- Food and beverage and theme development
- Audio-visual and production management
- Printing, signage, and branding
- Entertainment and decor
- On-site staffing and management
- Final event debrief
- Off-site receptions, meals, and activities
- Speaker management
- Photographer and videographer management and shot list design
For hybrid and virtual events, we offer:
- Virtual platform research and implementation
- Technical management and troubleshooting
- Conference agendas and timelines
- Budget preparation, management, and reconciliation
- Online registration
- Run of show management
- Pre-show run through
- Pre-show speaker and staff training
- Final conference debrief
How We Approach Research
We help readers make sense of new research, complex data, and ideas that can powerfully affect education policy and practice. Advancing public understanding of key issues is essential to shaping consequential conversations and inspiring action.
Billions to Gain
Report. Data visualization. Media engagement. Convening.
Helios Education Foundation and Education Forward Arizona are partnering to ensure that the public education discourse focuses on the tangible economic value of education after high school. Collaborative played an integral role in conceptualizing, developing, and producing a landmark report and statewide convening that thoughtfully explained complex economic research in compelling and actionable ways.
Report to the Ugandan People
Report. Design.
In partnership with The QED Group, USAID, and the U.S. Embassy in Kampala, Collaborative led the development of the inaugural Report to the Ugandan people, as well as two subsequent versions of the report. Our efforts, from content development and image selection, to report design and layout, prioritized clarity and accessibility for a wide range of readers, and especially for the people of Uganda.
Arizona Mayors Education Dashboards
Report. Data Visualization. Design.
Translating research and data into actionable information and insights for policymakers is a core goal of much of Collaborative’s research and reporting work. The Arizona Mayors Education Dashboards synthesizes numerous analyses and datapoints in a compelling presentation designed to inform municipal leaders and decision makers in communities throughout Arizona.
