Economic development consultant, home baker, and winner of the Great American Baking Show, Martin Sorge says it wasn’t that long ago that he wasn’t very good at baking. “I had always cooked and I was known for being the person...
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The CEO of Girls Inc. of Santa Fe, Kim Brown, believes that nonprofit strategic planning should not be centered on what an organization needs, but rather, it should be about asking what an organization needs to be doing for its...
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Tudor Montague's small business journey is a social impact success story. Montague had been working for tribes in the environmental field, and while it was a rewarding career, he had always dreamed of starting his own business. In 2015, after...
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The other day we were scrolling through one of our social media feeds and saw this: “What if I told you there is a secret club working on changing the New Mexico economy for the better through encouraging social enterprise?”…
This month our blog features a Q&A with Naveen Kanithi, the Director of Operations for Reading Quest, a non-profit with a mission to support literacy for the children of Santa Fe and West Las Vegas, New Mexico through free structured…
If you know us and our consulting work, you know we like to stay in it with you and check in often. We believe that consulting is like a good partnership, built on trust and support. (Fun fact: it’s one…
Mariah Harrison, MCRP, was born and raised in New Mexico and has spent her career working with leaders in her community. Connection and service are her passions and guide both her personal growth and that of the organizations with which…
What does a gathering with supportive, experienced facilitation look and feel like? This is a question the Prospera Partners facilitation team continuously reflects on. We’d like to shed some light on what we have learned. Facilitate means to “make (an…
Prospera Partners cultivates resiliency through our BIG (Bold Impact for Good) programming which includes our Emerging Social Sector Leaders program that we’ve facilitated for six years for over 100 nonprofit professionals in New Mexico. Central to this program is supporting…
This is a humble brag blog. $6,210,000. That’s how much we’ve helped our clients access in capital for their social enterprises and nonprofit organizations. It sounds easy. Sometimes it is, most of the time it’s not. This funding has allowed…
To change a system is to continue to tend to that system, and to constantly be asking what it needs and how you might serve to support its change. Let’s use the local food economy as a prime example. Here...
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We get asked to do strategic planning consulting and facilitation with nonprofit organizations on the regular. About 60% of those nonprofits don’t hire us after an initial meeting, however. It may seem odd to say this, but that’s not necessarily…
Have we forgotten everything that just happened in the last year and a half? We experienced a massive halt of life as we knew it. Facing the realities of the pandemic, we stopped the hustle out in the world, but…
A few days ago this Instagram post by Raashan Ahmad of Vital Spaces, a nonprofit arts organization based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, hit my newsfeed. The screenshot of a letter he received at work said: I am writing…
Amara Nash is an alumna of several of Prospera Partner’s BIG events. She has participated in the Emerging Leaders, BIG: How to Stand Up When You’re Figuring Out What You Stand For and BIG: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Nonprofit…
We asked Christen Collins, former BIG workshop participant and future BIG co-facilitator, about what she thought about her “BIG” experience and why she thinks others should take the plunge, too. Where have you felt supported in the structure of the…
We are Prospera Partners, and we’ve been around for awhile. Over the last 9 years we’ve amassed quite a library of resources for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits. And, even if you’re just curious about what all this social impact…
It goes without saying that we are in a time of shifts, lifting the veil, a great awakening. Along with a deeper awareness of our blind spots, we are called to come to terms with our own relationships with white…
“Don’t talk about it, be about it.”— Gloria James, Lebron James’ Mother We are in a moment of transition, voting out hate and pivoting back toward civility, but also reminded of the value of our non-white community. If it were…
AKA Why I’m Writing About Basketball for the First Time In My Life Growing up I was never really a “sports person.” If you would have told me a few years ago that I would be so excited about the…
May I be filled with loving-kindness May I be well May I be peaceful and at ease May I be happy I have found myself relying heavily on this meditation as we are navigating these times. It can be far…
“When you don’t know what to do, do nothing.” This is advice I’ve given myself – adapted from a Buddhist or yogic saying, no doubt – for years. I am the type of person who cannot act on an idea…
Friends and family, even a few strangers, have asked me what it’s like to write a book. Allow me to share how my summer has been so far: I am writing while working. Meaning: I have a business to run…
Signs you might be a localist: You get stuck in the produce section of the grocery store looking at the signage to find out where the fruit came from and what day it arrived. Turns out you know the farmer….
The Food Justice Residency Program at Santa Fe Art Institute has been going on for nearly a year bringing “together nearly 40 artists from more than 25 countries as well as across the United States to work with local individuals…
