SEED has extensive experience with pre-merger and collaboration analysis, facilitation and structuring. SEED also performs post-merger and collaboration integration services. Seed Collaborative is focused on developing and operationalizing strategies that support equitable institutions and communities. We believe that truly fair and just communities effectively tackle all forms of discrimination, build systems that mimic the everyday ways people support one another, and ensure that the benefits of public and private investments are broadly shared. Our work focuses on aligning policies, practices, and processes that support social and economic equity. We do this in two primary ways1. Systems change: We assess policies, plans and programs that impact equity with a focus on the built environment. We work with governmental agencies, community-based organizations and anchor institutions on policy analysis, development, implementation, and evaluation. 2. Institutional change: We work with mission-driven organizations and governmental agencies on strategic planning, group facilitation, program review, sustainability analysis, restructures and collaborations. We use an intersectional approach to identify practices that reinforce the strengths, assets, and wisdom of communities that have experienced disinvestment and discrimination to support equitable systems change. Our approach draws from targeted universalism and is grounded in our team’s multidisciplinary background and extensive experience in housing and community development policy, community engagement, participatory research and consensus-based decision-making.