Consultant
Tokiwa T. Smith is a chemical engineer with over 20 years of cross-sector experience in academia, government and nonprofit. She utilizes this experience as a social impact consultant through her firm, Tokiwa T. Smith Consulting.
Tokiwa T. Smith Consulting is a consulting firm that facilitates equitable systems change within the social impact sector. The firm partners with social impact organizations and social impact investors to ensure that their policies, practices, community engagement and programs are fully aligned with their core values. Through tailored consulting and training, the firm empowers organizations to create meaningful transformation in their communities and the broader social impact sector.
Transforming Systems, One Value-Aligned Action at a Time
The firm facilitates equitable systems change through methods including, but not limited to:
Community Outreach Program Development
Organizations want to give back to their communities, however it is important that the outreach provides the community with what it needs and not just what the organization assumes the community needs. Tokiwa T. Smith Consulting can support organizations with the development of a community outreach program that aligns with their outreach goals and meets the needs of the community.
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Cultural Awareness Training
In the social impact sector, it is important that individuals and organizations are aware of their own cultural beliefs and values as well as their own biases and their impact on their staff, volunteers and clients (grantees, program participants, partners). Cultural awareness training provides individuals and organizations with the opportunity to learn about and honor the different cultures of staff and volunteers as well as the individuals and organizations that are served through your community outreach efforts or programming. Tokiwa T. Smith Consulting offers a cultural awareness workshop series that equips individuals and organizations with tools and strategies to work with diverse populations.
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STEM Program Development
It is important that out of school time programs that serve multicultural communities provide program participants with culturally relevant STEM programming. Culturally relevant STEM programming includes curriculum and program structure. Tokiwa T. Smith Consulting can support organizations that serve multicultural communities, with the development of curriculum and/or a strategy for implementing culturally relevant STEM programming. The firm also provides educator professional development for both formal and informal STEM program development.
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