Best Starts For Kids
Emerging Design Consulting has been in business since 1998, supporting community-based groups to serve their own communities.
- We will support staff, board members and community members to help design your grant and budget to provide the most important services for your community needs, and draft the best application for Best Start for Kids funds
- We provide culturally competent, flexible and respectful support
- We are Emerging Design, because you provide the leadership and direction for your project. We are here to support your community approach and raise up your community leaders – the design emerges with each unique community.
Our Team
Expertise in capacity building and strategic planning, coaching, project planning, budget design, including grant writing. Able to help you translate your strengths and your community approach into grants language fore successful funding. Grounded in local multi-cultural communities from a lifetime of living and working with communities of color, immigrant and refugee groups.
Expertise in budgeting, design of deliverables, setting goals and project schedules, grants management. Grounded in Cambodian community and work with a wide variety of Asian immigrant communities.
- Work with early childhood education, curriculum design
- Community support services, immigrant and refugee services
Expertise in training and facilitation, culturally responsive education, African-centered education and culturally responsive approaches for African-American culture, program design and leadership.
- Local community leader in racial equity initiatives in education
- Work with youth leadership, mentoring, and parent engagement