WHAT WE DO / CONSULTING SERVICES
From economic and community development to equity guidance - we’ve got you
If you’re a business, an economic or community development organization, a policy organization, or a nonprofit ready for equity-focused transformation, you’re in the right place
There’s a time for testing the waters, baby steps, and gestures toward equitable and inclusive systems. Then there’s a time for real change. For organizations and communities ready to step into that change, RCM Strategic Consulting is your expert partner.
Our cross-sector experience enables us to make connections between where you are and where you want to go
We can help you expand your organization, create new networks, create strategic plans, and facilitate partnerships
We offer coaching and facilitation for leaders, key stakeholders, and boards of directors
CONSULTING SERVICES
Let us help you reach your goals
Organizational development
Need to make a change within your organization while still flying the plane? If you know where you want to go, we can help with the plan and set you on the best course. Our organizational development services range from short-, medium-, and long-term planning to cultivating new fundraising relationships, building coalitions, board development, and proposal development and writing.
Strategic planning & capacity building
We’ll help you not only understand where your organization is in its lifecycle but also develop a plan, goals, and benchmarks for what’s next. If your organization wants to grow, we can assess what type of capacity you need and chart your course for how best to acquire it.
Economic development strategy & consulting
Our experience in government, philanthropy, and community engagement means we understand how economic development deals come together. We have the know-how to guide you through all facets of a project, from site selection to community outreach, project financing, project management, and completion. We’ll connect you with investors, engage communities, and advocate to municipalities on your behalf.
Community development strategy & consulting
RCM Strategic Consulting will help you articulate, present, and achieve your community’s objectives. We’ll help you create the roadmap and travel with you. We ask the right questions, have the right conversations, and learn what makes your community tick and your vision for its future. Then we work with you and your stakeholders to make it happen.
Strategic placemaking
Our work with city parks, communities, landscape architects and designers, governments, and businesses has taught us how to design and execute placemaking strategies that represent diverse community perspectives and have the agreements and longevity in place to be sustainable.
Real estate development strategy & consulting
We specialize in mixed-use, urban infill, and historic development projects. Let our team help you identify properties and connect you to owners, assemble development professionals, and work with government agencies on planning, zoning, permitting, and advocacy necessary to assure a successful outcome that is affordable, sustainable, and beautiful.
DEIJ consulting & coaching
Through our lived and professional experience in diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, we can help your organization understand what these terms mean, examine your business’ DEIJ needs, communicate them honestly and constructively, and strategize to embed equity and anti-racism and all that entails.
Leadership coaching
We help leaders understand their leadership styles, skills, and challenges and develop a vision and plan for the future. We specialize in working with leaders on communications strategies targeting staff and board members, media training, and more.
Facilitation for teams facing change
Working with us to facilitate your meeting will give everyone the freedom to focus on tasks and goals instead of logistics. We’ll ensure everyone on your team feels valued and heard and that all ideas and input are included in the final product.
Feasibility studies, master planning, and landscape analyses
Working with governments, communities, and nonprofits has given Rebecca Murphy the necessary skills to identify and assess your project and goals, to work together to develop realistic outcomes that work for everyone, and to help you have the conversations necessary to achieve them.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
“Rebecca is incredibly observant and challenges you to focus and be your absolute best. She created an all-new infrastructure for us, including an organization chart, job descriptions for staff and board members, and a fulsome budget that allows us to plan and grow.”
— Guillermo Creamer Jr, Co-Founder of Pay Our Interns and Deputy Director of the Foundation for Civic Leadership
Case Study: Helping a national nonprofit navigate a new way of operating
Run from its inception by its two founders, DC-based Pay Our Interns looked to Rebecca Murphy to help create a new organization, a new framework for operation, and a plan to manage change. Read the story