The Woodbury Group is a consortia of independent contractors based in West Michigan.  We are available for consulting either individually or as a comprehensive design team depending upon your community or organization’s specific needs.  With decades of professional experience and expertise in health, human services, public policy, communication, and community engagement we have the depth of knowledge to support your project’s objectives whether they are short-term in duration or multi-year.  

As professionals who have worked for both government and nonprofit entities, we understand the challenges you face and appreciate that resources are often limited.  Our objective is to not only give you a successful outcome but to do it in a manner that is both affordable and accessible to any size entity.

Our exceptional team of seasoned professionals have worked throughout the country with organizations of all sizes.  By merging our skills together, we are not only able to provide a broad base of expertise but to serve as an internal forum that can hear your story, assess your need and work with you on the best solution.

At a time when local government and safety net resources have been financially devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, short to mid-term consulting assistance can represent a more cost effective approach to helping leaders right size their work and identify or address immediate organizational needs.   In the midst of these challenges, our team and its individual members stand ready to help.

Our Skills

• Project and Program planning and management
• Governance development including planning and facilitation for decision making
• Convene and manage the use of strategic teams 
• Grant writing, RFP development, grant review and strategic launch

• Grants management, including development of policy, procedures, training and support for applicants 

• Analysis, evaluation, monitoring and reporting of outcomes
• Quality Assurance/record maintenance
• Community and sector engagement for continuous quality improvement

Strategic Focus Areas

Health

• Hospital Community Benefit programming assessment/assets and deficits 
• Community Health Needs Assessments
• Social Determinants of Health programming and clinical/community coordination
• Access to care strategies for uninsured and under insured populations
• Equity targets – inclusive community intersection

Human Services

• Best practice program identification and safety net strategies
• Nonprofit governance, management and strategic assessment
• Multi-sector service delivery network engagement/alignment
• Use of housing – state and federal resources; high need populations: elders, homeless, low-income
• Demographic specific needs identification and programming

Communications

• Communication design, strategy and implementation
• Messaging
• Use of broadcast, radio, print, social media and video
• Document development and research
• Report development, editing, layout

Public Policy

• Strategic planning around policy trends
• Alignment of public and private entities
• Identification of government targets and opportunities
• Advocacy messaging
• Campaign

Community Engagement

• Focus Groups and community surveys
• Event coordination
• Public survey Instruments and Implementation to discern trends and needs
• Data driven/demographic engagement