Five practices. One way of working.
Most engagements draw on several practices at once. You get one team that speaks the language of strategy, food systems, communities and data, instead of coordinating vendors who don’t talk to each other.
Systems Strategy
For funders and governments with many programs and no common thread.
- Systems Scan: map programs, money, gaps and overlaps in 6 to 8 weeks
- Silo-to-System Strategy: shared vision, governance and a 3-year roadmap
- Portfolio reviews and collaborative fund design for foundations
- Program transitions between organizations and sectors
Food Systems Design & Infrastructure
For governments, NGOs, foundations and operators building local and regional food systems.
- Regional food system strategy and feasibility studies
- Food markets, hubs and aggregation: planning, capital stack, build and operations
- Food is Health, produce prescription and SNAP incentive program design
- Farmland access, urban farm networks and farmer apprenticeships
- Nonprofit founding, governance and grant strategy
Community Building
For agencies and coalitions that need the right people at the table and working together.
- Stakeholder mapping and outreach plans, digital and traditional
- Initiatives alignment convenings that connect separate programs
- Coalition and collective impact design, from common agenda to backbone
- Partner networks and engagement hubs to track 50+ partners
- Technical assistance and plain-language guides for small organizations
Facilitation & Convening
For boards, leadership teams, councils and task forces that need to decide and move.
- Meeting and retreat facilitation with clear decisions and next steps
- Community and stakeholder convenings for 20 to 100+ people
- Advisory board and commission support, from charter to recommendations
- Facilitative leadership training for staff
Data Systems, Reporting & ROI
Systems change only works if you can see what is working and what isn’t. We build the IT and data systems that connect programs, track every investment and show its return across the whole system.
- Shared data platforms that connect agencies, partners and programs
- Cloud, data and analytics architecture sized for public and nonprofit teams
- Outcomes and measures frameworks agreed before the work starts
- Investment tracking that shows where every dollar goes and what it returns
- Cross-program ROI: when food spending rises, see the savings in health, housing and other programs
- Dashboards, funder and board reports, and impact storytelling
- Quarterly learning reviews that feed the next strategy
- Technology selection, vendor review and implementation oversight
Most systems change fails at the seams
Food projects fail when the operations, the money or the data don’t hold up. Technology projects fail when the people building them have never run a program or a community meeting. Coalitions fail when no one can show the return on what they invest together.
Interwoven exists because those failures are avoidable when one team carries the work from idea to impact, and stays to measure it.
That is why every engagement starts with the business case. We show what the current system costs, what the change will return, and when. If the economics don’t work, the change won’t last.