What we do
Providing support to nurture sustainability and impact in your postsecondary pathway services
Project Management and Workflow Planning
Postsecondary pathway programming supports have a habit of growing organically by demand. Even with best intentions, this can lead to an over-reliance on personal or anecdotal experience as driving force for project management and lead to “putting-out-the-fires” mentality across your work.
From conducting team analysis to facilitating long-range planning retreats, Grad Team Collective provides support that will help your team work smarter, not burn out.
Staff Transition Supports
We’ve been there! The process of filling an open position on your team—no matter how urgent— cannot be rushed. We love the opportunity to support organizations in making these transitions sustainable for all by providing temporary direct service or supervisory coverage to ensure continuity of services; supporting your recruitment and selection process; and constructing thoughtful staff onboarding practices— all while you keep the ship running smoothly ahead.
Staff turnover is a painful reality for post-secondary support organizations. Grad Team Collective can help ease this pain.
Program Design
For organizations looking to embark on postsecondary pathway programming, whether a small pilot initiative or a complete program over-haul, Grad Team Collective will help you build systems and structures that both reflect industry best practice and your organization’s mission and culture.
Maggie and Risa hold an abundance of experience building, scaling, and directing postsecondary pathway programs. We are committed to developing equity- and data- driven practices, exploring opportunities for partnership, and investing in evaluation and continuous improvement. This essential work will sow the seeds for broad impact with a slim purpose-driven staff.
Our services are designed to meet you where you are, from initial visioning through pilot year coaching.
And everywhere in between or beyond.
Professional Development and Training
The best of both worlds, Grad Team Collective brings together extensive postsecondary access and success direct-service experience with intimate of-the-moment content nuance to deliver training curriculum that fits the needs of your program.
Grad Team Collective can develop and deliver staff, student, or parent facing trainings. A single workshop or a suite of trainings, whatever it takes to realize equitable futures for all young people.
Peer Mentorship Initiatives
Grad Team Collective has extensive experience in designing, running, and scaling peer-to-peer programming for post-secondary access and success. It’s a win-win for young people: creating career-experience opportunities for mentors while sharing knowledge and encouraging belonging for mentees.
If your organization is interested in launching a peer-mentorship initiative to support postsecondary access and success, Grad Team Collective will help you design and launch for sustainability and impact.
Thought-Partnership
And then there’s everything else.
It wouldn’t be non-profit work if you didn’t win a grant, lose an employee, or receive a left-field mandate at just the wrong time.
We have been there.
Grad Team Collective is here to be your time-defending, thought-partnering, note-taking, idea-synthesizer. Your loose-end-tying, personal-assisting, temporary you-clone always ready to remind you what you were just saying until the storm passes.
Want to test drive ideas or research life-hacks for team engagement?
Building a key partner relationship that’s loosing steam?
Coordinating a conference that’s getting bigger than you’d thought?
Let’s talk.
Not sure if we can help?
We love hearing about new challenges—and if we’re not the ones that can help, we probably have a good idea of someone who can.