Capacity Building

Resilient Roots LLC partners with organizations to strengthen their strategic capacity—helping leaders, boards, and teams align resources, develop effective plans, and build the structures needed for sustainable growth.

Our Services

Build capacity today. Create stability tomorrow.

Building the structure, clarity, and confidence needed to achieve your mission and sustain growth over time.

Organizational Strategic Capacity Building Services

Resilient Roots provides professional strategic planning, organizational assessment and capacity building services, including resource planning and development.

With extensive leadership experience, RR staff can work with your organization’s leadership, board, staff, or partners to explore opportunities to strengthen your organization’s planning and capacity. RR capacity building services can also include resource development planning, grant writing, and associated training. RR also provides expertise in developing collaborations and helping diverse groups come to agreement on complex issues, which often require balancing the needs of participants with competing interests.


Includes strategic, resilience, and capacity-building planning sessions with organizational leaders.

Provides assessments, report-outs, planning sessions, and accompanying support materials and final reports.

Services are billed at project or hourly rates, with all engagement details and expenses contractually defined in advance.

Research and Analysis Services

Resilient Roots offers quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods research and analysis services.

With decades of experience in both academic and applied research, RR services include surveys, interviews, focus groups, and evaluation. Policy and program analysis services include needs assessment, policy review, root cause analysis, tradeoffs analysis, and evidence-based recommendations.


Conducted under a negotiated project contract with an agreed-upon number of hours for completion.

Additional hours may be added and billed at a negotiated rate as project needs evolve.

Flexible structure ensures clarity, accountability, and adaptability throughout each engagement.

Coaching Services

Resilient Roots offers 1:1 and group coaching (both online and in-person options are available).

There are times we all wish we could have a guide or brainstorming partner as we make decisions, especially in times of uncertainty and change. RR can provide you with a coach with expertise to help you explore your resilience-building options, provide another set of eyes on technical documents or as you pursue funding, and help connect you with the supporting evidence/research you need to build the case for resilience-building.


Delivered through a negotiated coaching contract with an agreed number of hours over a set time period.

Offered as 1:1 or group sessions, available in person in Southern Maine or remotely via your preferred online platform.

Billed at an hourly rate, with additional travel charges for sessions held outside the Greater Portland Area.