How We Can Help

Zigas and Associates can help plan and carry out your organization's strategic or business plans, program and policy development, and organizational development work.  Our engagements have included the following:

• We are helping the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation develop the expansion of its multi-year, multi-million dollar Window of Opportunity initiative to preserve affordable rental housing.  We surveyed practitioners about opportunities for new grant making and investments, developed options for the Foundation's staff, and assisted in the design of a solicitation for new funding proposals.  We continue to assist in the development of this important initiative.
  
• We worked with the National Housing Trust in 2007 to develop a new strategic plan by engaging the staff, board and stakeholders in a robust examination of the market, the organization’s capabilities and resources, and refining the theory of change through which it hopes to preseve endangered affordable rental homes.  We co-planned and led a two day board retreat and subsequent board meeting at which the plan was first designed, then adopted. 
  
• We are a Senior Advisor to UniDev LLC, identifying new partners through which to expand its unique mission oriented practice of helping institutional partners create permanently affordable housing for their workforces.
  
• We are working with Corporate Social Responsibility Associates in Phoenix, AZ to help the Low Income Investment Fund to identify high potential areas to expand business opportunities.