Voices from the Field

Below, we invite you to meet inspiring, community-serving leaders. These women are adopting SEED practices for their organizations to achieve innovation, higher team performance and deeper impacts. SEED is coaching them to sustain paths of new mastery in four areas of their work.

Director of the Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement, Merble Reagon discusses benefits of the SEED Diagnostic. Watch the video » Founder & Executive Director of the Red Hook Initiative, Jill Eisenhard, shares appreciation for the ways that SEED customizes its services. Watch the video » Senior Policy Analyst at the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Nicole Lavan is realizing meaningful results. Watch the video » Founder & Executive Director of Ray of Hope Center of the Arts, Victoria Brady shares appreciation for the SEED team. Watch the video »

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A Girls for Gender Equity community organizer, Nefertiti Martin appreciates SEED's invitation to dream and connect her day-to-day work with her visions of a better world. The Director of Community Organizing at Girls for Gender Equity, Meghan Huppuch talks about becoming more intentional through her use of SEED practices. Having energized the agency since its 2002 inception, founder Jill Eisenhard is developing shared local leadership to assure long-term sustainability. Senior Policy Analyst at the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Nicole Lavan is gaining skills for deep collaboration. Merble Reagon is guiding her team to adopt performance metrics for communicating the agency’s strengths, growth opportunities and strategic priorities to its funders and supporters. Girls for Gender Equity staff are appreciating the capacity that is being unleashed through sharing ownership in the visioning, planning and implementation of their work together. Victoria Brady talks about growing pains, attesting that "change is good". Jill Eisenhard anticipates that her work with SEED will yield change that sticks. Nicole Lavan appreciates SEED's strength-based approach. Reflecting on the agency’s 40 years of tremendous achievements, director Merble Reagon is wisely exploring possibilities to offer value in the agency’s next phase, as well as long term capacity-building opportunities to create value exchange. As an artist and arts activist, Victoria Brady’s organization engages inner city teens in Chicago to create powerful images, stories and music, as a creative tool to build positive relationships among youth and adults, stronger communities, and effect positive change. Victoria feels that SEED is crucial for a small organization to achieve a big vision. Learn more about the compelling achievements of these client partners and go to their web sites. They welcome and warrant your generous supports!