Services Offered
For over 10 years, Stone Strategies has been providing unique solutions to clients’ needs. Click on any of the services below to find out more:
- Strategic Planning
- Problem Solving
- Training for Changing Roles
- Leadership Development
- Team Development
Portfolio:
New River Gorge Regional Development Authority
The strategic planning process with NRGRDA staff and board took place over a four (4) month period. It involved three (3) meetings in two days and engaged over 150 people including West Virginia’s Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Tourism. View the final strategic plan here.
Note: The layout and graphic design for the report was completed by NRGRDA staff, Chief Communications Officer, Lillian Graning.
The strategic planning process with NRGRDA staff and board took place over a four (4) month period. It involved three (3) meetings in two days and engaged over 150 people including West Virginia’s Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Tourism. View the final strategic plan here.
Note: The layout and graphic design for the report was completed by NRGRDA staff, Chief Communications Officer, Lillian Graning.
Mining for Gold – Farm2U and West Virginia Community Development Hub
This was a multi-level process that involved writing content for the guide, training a team of six (6) facilitators and assisting Braxton County in identifying, convening and building a team, organizing, planning and conducting a Country Roads Cook-off event in the space of five (5) months. Photos of the cook-off event appear in the community mobilization guide.
This was a multi-level process that involved writing content for the guide, training a team of six (6) facilitators and assisting Braxton County in identifying, convening and building a team, organizing, planning and conducting a Country Roads Cook-off event in the space of five (5) months. Photos of the cook-off event appear in the community mobilization guide.
WV Healthy Kids and Families Coalition
This was a multi-meeting process for a statewide coalition. The planning process took place over the course of four (4) months. During that period Stone Strategies was involved in supporting the drafting a survey, development of a report of results with recommendations for consideration (with Heasley Consulting), and designing and facilitating two (2) meetings that resulted in a three-year strategic plan.
This was a multi-meeting process for a statewide coalition. The planning process took place over the course of four (4) months. During that period Stone Strategies was involved in supporting the drafting a survey, development of a report of results with recommendations for consideration (with Heasley Consulting), and designing and facilitating two (2) meetings that resulted in a three-year strategic plan.
Covenant House
Stone Strategies in partnership with Steve Heasley of Heasley consulting, worked over the course of four (4) months to develop and Economic Impact Study for Covenant House. The work included staff interviews, research, analysis and a report that contains recommendations for next steps to implement the findings.
Stone Strategies in partnership with Steve Heasley of Heasley consulting, worked over the course of four (4) months to develop and Economic Impact Study for Covenant House. The work included staff interviews, research, analysis and a report that contains recommendations for next steps to implement the findings.
Other Publications:
Strategic Planning
Problem Solving
Training for Changing Roles
Leadership Development
Team Development
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CURRENT & FORMER PROJECTS:
- Implementation support for a five-year, $25M statewide grant to a higher education system, process improvement and progress check-in process)
- Conduct partner interviews for a city-wide project to reduce crime
- System redesign for statewide Women, Infants and Children’s program (development of the first, revised approved foods list in over 25 years)
- Strategic Planning for organizations working in diverse field. Examples include: economic development; entrepreneurship; public education; health care; housing; homelessness; early childhood education; higher education; etc.)
- Expansion planning and training for statewide home visiting programs
- Policy development planning support for multiple agencies and organizations to develop policy statements to support statewide expansion of early care and education programming
- After Acton Review (multiple-system evaluation of statewide disaster response and planning for improvement – players included local, state, and federal responders)
- Statewide, multiple-system health care innovation planning
- Development of an Economic Impact Study that applies organizational data to a framework that a cross-walks Forum for the Future’s Five Capitals model and Ford Foundation’s model describing the Seven Forms of Wealth.