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Developing a Local Health Champion Initiative for Cooking Matters Colorado

Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters Colorado (CMC) empowers low-income families with the skills to maximize their food budgets and to cook healthy, nutritious meals for their children at home.

In December 2016, Mission Spark assisted in the development of a "Local Health Champion" program at CMC.

We researched best practices for the program, offered strategic guidance, developed training toolkits and modules, provided training, and supported the program through launch and early evaluation.

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Client
Our Role
  • Strategic Consulting
Year
  • 2016
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Enhancing Teacher Voices through TISPE (Teacher-Informed Solutions in Performance Evaluation)

The TISPE initiative gives teachers a platform to influence Colorado’s Teacher Performance Evaluation (TPE) policy and implementation.

Mission Spark served as the program co-designer, facilitator, administrator, technical assistance provider, and reporter of the TISPE initiative.

Our work with TISPE will inform the 2020 Colorado legislative session and will help ensure that teachers’ ideas and experience will shape teacher performance evaluation in Colorado going forward.

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Project Details

Client
  • Teacher-Informed Solutions in Performance Evaluation (TISPE)
Our Role
  • Facilitation and Training
Year
  • 2018
Redline Art Center

Cultural Transformation for Redline

Nonprofit art center Redline came to Mission Spark seeking articulation and refinement of their organizational culture.

We partnered with Redline over six months to listen to staff and volunteers define current culture and to help bring to life their desired vision through small, manageable steps.

From culture assessment to a series of planning and design workshops, to leadership coaching and support for Redline leadership, Mission Spark supported Redline's cultural journey from start to finish.

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Client
Our Role
  • Facilitation and Training
  • Leadership Development and Executive Coaching
Year
  • 2015
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Ensuring an Effective Expansion for the Lawyers for Victims Program

Project Safeguard's Lawyers for Victims (LFV) program provides attorney representation to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking free-of-charge.

When LFV received a grant to support the expansion of the program to other sites throughout Colorado, Project Safeguard chose Mission Spark to research, evaluate, and support the LVF expansion assessment over an 18-month timeline.

We provided evaluation technical assistance to expansion sites throughout the reporting period developed a comprehensive evaluation report on program outcomes.

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Project Details

Client
Our Role
  • Evaluation and Assessment
Year
  • 2018