Our Practices & Interventions

The Quality of Life Platform

 

How do you know if your social purpose initiative is making a difference? Whether you are a City wanting show that your Community Benefits Agreements are successful, a Housing Authority working to move tenants to self sufficiency, a Technical College running an apprenticeship program, or a settlement program seeking to help newcomers to adjust to their new homes, we can help you measure more than outputs and outcomes, but whether you are working towards your theory of change. Our Quality of Life Platform tracks financial health, program related outcomes, and Quality of Life measures that policy-makers care about. It is highly customizable and can integrate into your current systems, or stand alone as your project platform. We use standard metadata to support aggregation and comparison of results across sectors. The working prototype is in use and growing into its second iteration, Contact us to request a demo.

Microcredit

 

Access to loan capital is a major barrier preventing communities from thriving, due to high levels of debt and a confusing financial system with the rules that amount to “one strike and you’re out.” Your neighbours, clients, students, and employees have multiple financial barriers that are compounded by alternative forms of credit that place them further into debt. Our solutions focus on partnerships with local financial institutions willing to connect low income consumers to mainstream financial products because our model mitigates risk, both for the financial institution, and for the consumer.

Financial Counselling HUB

 

We can identify the ideal agency in your community to tie together use of both our Quality of Life platform and microcredit model, while scaling delivery of high-quality, one-on-one Financial Counseling in your community. One agency can serve as the HUB for hiring financial counselors that work across sectors, integrating financial health into workforce development, education, healthcare, entrepreneurship, municipal services, and more.

Health Determinants

 

Our connected experts have worked across healthcare systems, health departments, municipalities, and Foundation initiatives to link social purpose efforts to Social Determinants of Health. We can help you explore intersections between municipal and nonprofit health, wealth, housing, and economic development efforts and your local healthcare systems.

Community Engagement

 

We will help you work collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting the well-being of those people to improve the health of the community and its members. We can work with you to identify partnerships and coalitions that can help mobilize resources and influence systems and serve as catalysts for changing policies, programs, and practice.

Black, Indigenous, and POC Leadership

 

If you are interested in genuine and authentic leadership transformation, not just embracing DEI, but change management consulting that supports cultivating directors and executives and your leadership reflecting the communities that you serve, our connect experts can provide helpful strategies to facilitate this process.

Community Visioning

 

What is the future of your city? How do you engage your community in the visioning process? How do you communicate your vision and use it to guide your policies and programs, from end to end, top to bottom? CFH Consulting can assist with your visioning process.