Naveen Kanithi 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…
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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…
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Mariah Harrison, current Nonprofit and Philanthropy Coordinator for the City of Albuquerque Office of the Mayor and past participant of BIG - Bold Impact for Good workshops facilitated by Prospera Partners Mariah Harrison, MCRP, was born and raised in New…
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Vicki Pozzebon, Rae Miller, and Eileen Everett in action. 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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Creating real change through planning and facilitation requires a people-centered approach. 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.…
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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…
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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…
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Amara Nash 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…
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Christen Collins 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…
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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…
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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…
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“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…
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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…
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Meditative drawing is part of Miller's journaling/grounding practice. 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…
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"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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Sometimes you have to put yourself out there. So in business, as in life. Sometimes you need to really put yourself out there to promote your work and to promote yourself. When I made the decision to submit an article…
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Friday February 1, 2013 - Friday February 1, 2013 Description: Think you’re a social entrepreneur? Got a great idea and no idea where or how to begin? Ready to start a project, program, business, organization that makes change and the…
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Or is it? Ok. I don't really believe the world will end on 12-21-12 (Caveat: I visited the Mayan ruins in 2010 and got the inside scoop from my tour guide about the forthcoming "chaos in the sky" so I'm…
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So this is happening . . . https://makingchangeatwalmart.org/ I was going to write a long blog post about supporting locally-owned indie businesses on Black Friday and why that’s important for community and the economy but it seems more important right…
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