Community engagement is at the heart of Empowered getting the feedback you need to transform your organizations’ work. Our engagement approach ensures culturally responsive practices, empowerment, multidirectional sharing, and diverse engagement. Deliver greater, community
driven impact in your programs, strategy, and more!

K-12 Family Engagement

Maximize the effectiveness of family engagement through staff training and long-term engagement strategies grounded in the FACE approach and leveraging ReachWell services, an Empowered partner.

Community-Centered Survey Design

Leverage internal and external surveys for change management, evaluation, strategic planning, evaluation, etc. Our surveys are designed to empower action and capture critical insights while ensuring audience accessibility and bias mitigation.

Interviews

Create depth of understanding with personalized interviews that take an unbiased look at organizational practices, local needs, ongoing programs and more. Our interviews reveal diverse perspectives and utilize a social justice approach to narrative building and collaborative problem solving.

Listening Sessions

Intentionally listen to the communities you serve and the people who help you serve them through focus groups designed to build belonging, dream creatively, and define issues collectively. Our sessions center multidirectional information sharing and culturally responsive community building to build trust and value for participants.

Reporting and Recommendations

Specialized reports are designed based on your learning goals and implementation needs to propel action with key takeaways, in-depth summaries, and recommendations to put data into action.

Event Management and Community Coalition Building

Manage multi-organizational events with ease as we build new coalitions, earn sponsorships, develop programming, and market to key communities. We exclusively build events that celebrate arts, culture, and diversity.

We promote language equity. Incorporate Translation Services into your engagement for enhanced inclusion and language-diversity

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Example Projects

  • CO Department of Education

    Built the in-person Family Liaison training in Colorado to state-certify individuals in these roles and guarantee baseline skills aligned with research and promising practices for family and community engagement. This in-person training has since been modified to an online training hosted by CDE.

  • Butterfly Pavilion

    English and Spanish focus groups to evaluate a special exhibit, understand Latinx experiences in zoos and museums, and identify strengths and growth opportunities for the Butterfly Pavilions’ relationship with racially diverse communities. This project resulted in a renewed contract to update the zoo’s DEIA plan, act on focus group findings, and operationalize DEIA

  • Colorado Business Committee for the Arts

    A robust community engagement process including targeted interviews, focus groups facilitated across the state of Colorado, and Working Group management to co-develop Colorado’s first ever Arts Policy Framework to drive advocacy and the legislative agenda for arts, culture, and creative industry. The Framework will be released in Fall of 2024. Read More.

  • Taste of Mexico

    Supported Fireside at Five as the cultural advisor for Taste of Mexico, an event to activate the Larimer Square business district. Empowered provided community connection to vendors and artists and managed the weekend’s entertainment lineup celebrating Mexican music and culture

  • Festival Garibaldi for Downtown Dynamic Denver

    Empowered acquired grant, acted as the fiscal agent and event liaison, managing the event across multiple organizations. Funds were spread across four organizations identified by Empowered as co-hosts with aligned collective impact goals. Community event included presentations of Mariachi and Folkloric Dance, food trucks, and cultural celebration