Albilal & Associates is a team of advisors supporting community projects that directly address current and emerging v public policy issues.

In its advocacy work addressing social challenges and promoting solutions, A&A is particularly focused on promoting wellbeing in communities through collaborations that address:

• Economic Inequality (Social Justice, Economic Justice, Gender Justice)
• Health Disparities
• Supporting and Strengthening Working Families
• Systemic Racism,
• Violence Prevention,
• Workforce Development and Opportunity
• Preventing and Managing Personal Trauma
• Failures of the Educational System
• Housing Insecurity and Advocacy for Immigrants and Homeless Persons

A&A has significant expertise working with stakeholders representing vulnerable populations that are systemically ostracized, stigmatized, and or isolated as a consequence of their gender, ethnic, racial, and/or disability characteristics.

In its public policy work, A&A and its advisors convene, facilitate, and/or participate in community initiatives targeting emerging community wellbeing challenges and opportunities.

A&A can be an impartial and professional mediator that can promote an inclusive and public domain vision that gets buy-in from a diversity of stakeholders. A&A is an experienced leadership resource you can engage to bring knowhow to your social sector work that makes collaboration desirable and possible for you and your peers. A&A purposefully helps with connecting stakeholders, thought leaders, and funders in order to develop common understanding that leads to advocacy efforts, social capital investments, resource development and well planned deployments.

Our collective efforts have resulted in:

• Development, Implementing and Management of Collaborations, Initiatives, and Consortia
• Recruiting, Selecting, and Convening appropriate stakeholders to design and implemented community assessments
• Development and implementation of strategic plans that define needed organizational development in fund raising, staff development, and organizational leadership resources
• Development of organizational internal capacity to develop plans, initiatives, programs, and stakeholder engagement strategies in order to increase organizational capacity to develop, implement, and Manage measurable and attainable goals, objectives and outcomes with demonstrated community impact
• A&A provides executive level guidance and internal management team capacity (though implementing focus groups, brainstorming sessions, workshops, internal surveys, key informant interviews, and facilitated and focused discussions, in order to develop and support internal team building that leads to increased focus on, value of, and commitment to planning that leads to actionable projects with specific and understood goals and responsibilities that ensure measurable and attainable goals and outcomes.
• grounded in community inclusive strategic assessments and consequent plans of action that A&A provides technical assistance in the implementation and outcome assessment process that funders and stakeholders require.
• Developing and managing collaborations with appropriate stakeholders pursuing measurable and attainable goals, objectives and outcomes.
• A&A’s planning, development, evaluation and implementation approach is grounded in community inclusive strategic assessments that prepare your internal team to work collaboratively with community stakeholdders.

• A&A follows an inclusive and collaborative internal and external stakeholder team building process that begins with:
  • Research,
  • Appropriate situational and context analysis:
  • x
  • (surveys, key information interviews, focus groups) well researched strategy that results in xxx plans of action resulting in A&A guided technical assistance in the implementation and outcome assessment process that funders and stakeholders require, value and trust.

are disproportionately affected by the negative social consequences of emerging or ongoing social issues, conflict and/or systemic discrimination. The group meets and convenes relevant thought leaders through its PolicyThinkshop Blog, its quarterly Newsletter “PolicyABCs” and its consulting services firm “PolicyABCs.Org”