Offerings & Approach

Sandbox Collective offers a diverse suite of services to clients from several sectors. We provide a collaborative, hands-on approach to analyze your organization’s unique needs and provide innovative solutions to help you achieve results that are ahead of the curve. Across sectors, we can provide expert management of goals-driven events, conferences, and convenings.

Below is a sample of what we can work on with you, organized by sector.

Offerings &
Approach

Sandbox Collective offers a diverse suite of services to clients from several sectors.

We provide a collaborative, hands-on approach to analyze your organization’s unique needs and provide innovative solutions to help you achieve results that are ahead of the curve.

Across sectors, we can provide expert management of goals-driven events, conferences, and convenings.

Community-Based Organizations,
Nonprofits, and Anchor Institutions

Sandbox can offer comprehensive services for community based organizations, nonprofits and anchor institutions.

Strategy and Fundraising

Develop cutting edge federal funding strategies that can benefit community based organizations now, particularly targeting opportunities from the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and annual appropriations.
Develop philanthropic and corporate sector fundraising strategies, including grant writing, training, and staff support.

Government Relations and Policy Advocacy

Build coalitions and strategies to achieve policy change, secure appropriations, and meet community goals.
Tackle climate change, disaster resilience, environmental review processes, and post-disaster housing and community development issues.

Conferences and Event Planning

Facilitate and manage cutting edge conferences and events
Develop and implement tailored agendas and exercises that enhance events or site visits that achieve policy or management goals

Community Planning

Develop recommendations on best practices and opportunities for community revitalization
Tackle housing challenges with cross-sector strategies to advance community housing goals

Public Affairs

Develop public affairs strategies with a focus on developing communities of practice and learning agendas to advance goals

Technical Assistance

Provide technical assistance by analyzing needs and determining paths to better outcomes with innovative strategies using human-centered design techniques

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Government and Consulting Firms

Sandbox can offer services for all levels of government, quasi-public agencies and consulting firms.

Federal Government

Convening and Community Engagement

Develop and implement structured agendas and facilitate exercises to enhance conferences and events or site visits that achieve policy or management goals

Communities of Practice

Set learning agendas and facilitate internal or external communities of practice that identify successes and barriers to policy implementation

Technical Assistance

Serve as a trusted partner to equitably understand, guide, and meet community needs

Strategic Partnerships

Identify sectors and partnerships to align and leverage federal funding and advance policy goals

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State and Local Government

Funding Strategies and Compliance

Develop innovative federal funding strategies, harnessing opportunities from the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and annual appropriations
Assist with compliance on federal or philanthropic funding, including environmental, community engagement, or regulatory and reporting

Technical Assistance

Serve as a trusted partner to equitably understand, guide, and meet community needs
Focus areas include city planning, disaster recovery action plan drafting, disaster mitigation, response, and recovery planning, and public-private partnerships

Convening and Community Engagement

Develop and implement structured agendas and exercises to enhance conferences and events or site visits that achieve policy or management goals
Identify ways to conduct equitable community engagement

Communities of Practice

Set learning agendas and facilitate internal or external communities of practice that identify successes and barriers to policy implementation

Strategic Partnerships

Identify sectors and partnerships to align and leverage federal funding and advance policy goals

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Philanthropy

Sandbox can offer services for large institutional funders, community foundations, high net worth individuals, donor advised fund (DAF) holders, and family foundations.

Grantmaking Strategy

Informing grantmaking strategy and conduct landscape analyses, particularly around:

Disaster resilience, post-disaster, and post-disaster housing
Climate change preparedness and mitigation
Justice40 environmental justice and sustainable and equitable investments
Navigating government and appropriations

Grantee Services

Support grantees to advance the capacity of nonprofits and assist them with leveraging funding for impact
Develop innovative federal funding strategies for nonprofit grantees, utilizing tools and resources to harness opportunities from the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and annual appropriations
Develop state and local connections and funding strategies to enhance grantees’ impact and obtain additional resources

Conferences and Event Planning

Facilitate and manage cutting edge conferences and events
Develop and implement tailored agendas and exercises that enhance events or site visits that achieve policy or management goals

Technical Assistance

Enhance strategies for relationship development to further public policy goals
Develop advocacy plans and launch campaigns

Public Affairs

Develop outreach strategies before the public, media, and communities to include external resources, guides, and grantee resources
Research and facilitate communities of practice and learning agendas.
Develop and launch new funds and competitions

Research and Facilitation

Develop goals and conduct research and landscape analyses to drive towards solutions

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Corporate

Sandbox can offer services for forward-thinking corporate clients and socially responsible organizations.

Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

Advise clients on community engagement and develop equity-focused corporate partnerships with community values
Leverage cross-sector opportunities for community funding and grantmaking to include Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and social investments
Assist with ESG/DEIA plans and implementation

Grantee Services

Facilitate and manage cutting edge conferences and events
Develop and implement tailored agendas and exercises that enhance events or site visits that achieve management goals
Identify ways to conduct community and partner engagement

Philanthropic and Social Investment Advising

Support grantmaking and outreach efforts that may include disaster recovery and environmental justice/sustainability

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