Building Better Programs

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At Color In Practice, our approach is grounded in the belief that strategic, intentional action — led by those closest to the issues — creates ripple effects far beyond the immediate moment. We help institutions, nonprofits, and educators reflect this approach in their programs, building with, not for, community.

Our services are designed to support your organization in building, evaluating, and strengthening flexible, high-impact programming for BIPOC youth that honours community knowledge and invests in long-term transformation.

Our Approach

Our Services

  • Whether you’re launching a new initiative or evolving an existing one, we will work with you to ensure it is impactful, research based and informed by lived experience.

    🔍 How we help:

    • Planning and delivery of multi-day conferences or summits

    • Design of toolkits, handbooks, and implementation materials

    • Theory of change development and strategic program frameworks

    • Community needs / assets assessments and Environmental scans

    • Outreach strategy design and audience engagement planning

    • Key performance indicators and impacts measurement frameworks

  • Our facilitation approach is relational, anti-oppressive, and rooted in collective care — because facilitation should meet people where they are, and move them forward. Whether guiding a strategic planning retreat or leading a workshop we create space for deep dialogue, clarity of purpose, and meaningful momentum.

    🔍 How we help:

    • Design and facilitate workshops

    • Strategic planning retreats for teams, boards, or youth networks

    • Community consultations and visioning sessions

    • Experiential learning and co-reflection spaces

    • Facilitation of intergenerational and cross-sector dialogues

    • Train-the-trainer models and facilitator coaching

    • Integration of arts, storytelling, and land-based methods

  • We design evaluation frameworks that measure impact through data and the stories that matter. Our approach centres lived experience, cultural context, and community-defined impact.

    We help build adaptive evaluation tools that grow with their programs. Through participatory tools and reflective processes, we help teams surface insights, tell fuller stories of change, and make values-aligned decisions that move them forward.

    🔍 How we help:

    • Theory of change development and logic model design

    • Participatory evaluation frameworks grounded in equity and inclusion

    • Outcome mapping and storytelling methods

    • Community-informed KPIs

    • Strategic learning plans that support ongoing program refinement

    • Embedded reflection tools for staff, stakeholders, and participants

    • Final report design and knowledge-sharing support

  • We co-create curricula that foster critical thinking, leadership tools, and moving from idea to action. Our work is shaped by land-based knowledge, community based pedagogy, and frameworks that move beyond inclusion toward transformation.

    🔍 How we help:

    • Custom workshop and multi-session curriculum design

    • Train-the-trainer toolkits for facilitators, educators, and mentors

    • Land-based, arts-based, and/or identity-rooted learning modules

    • Digital and hybrid learning resource development

    • EDI-aligned curriculum for youth-facing professionals and institutions

    • Curriculum audits with a racial equity and inclusion lens

    • Facilitation guides, reflection tools, and action planning resources

    • Co-creation of learning outcomes and assessment strategies

Why Work With Us

Our team brings professional expertise in public policy, education, and deep relationships with community, rooted in lived experience. We understand what it takes to build tools, programs, and curricula that are effective, adaptable, and grounded in equity — because we’ve been on both sides: designing systems and navigating them.

Whether you're reimagining what’s possible or responding to urgent needs, we’ll walk with you to create meaningful, lasting impact.