Social Change
Strategies for Change utilizes large and small–scale change methodologies that bring people together in a safe and compassionate setting to transform social justice issues and advance social economic conditions at the local, national, and international levels.
We work with diverse stakeholders across different communities, global coalitions, and nonprofit organizations to launch new projects, initiatives, and public dialogues to achieve social and economic justice within the communities and countries they serve. We take the lead or partner with you on on-going projects.
Strategies for Change offers the following social change services:
Large Scale Social Change Initiatives and Projects: We take the lead or partner with you to gather diverse stakeholders on specific social or economic issues such as housing, homelessness, or racial justice, to explore, vision, and launch solutions. We use a combination of our own and other methodologies such as Future Search, World Café, and Restorative Justice Dialogues.
Community Programs for Sustainable Change: We provide programs that combine intensive skill building, application and coaching culminating in new pilot programs, partnerships, and services. Sample programs include:
Programs for transforming schools, public services, and institutions that serve the community
Small business development, partnership, and sustainability
Peer self-help programs for marginalized populations
Community Centers for Change: We partner with your group or community to create a hub for a new world where healing, connecting, learning, and governing occur together. We work with you to set up community and entrepreneurial programs, comprehensive holistic health services, and innovative communal areas, such as cafés & performance spaces, that foster connection and creativity
Theatre for Change Programs: Based on the work of Augusto Boal, workshops and programs are available to communities and groups to explore deep-rooted conflict, power dynamics, and internalized oppression through creative games, powerful techniques, and interactive skits for public forums. Programs include:
Image Theatre: Transform power relations in your group or community
Forum Theatre: Practice social actions through interactive skits to inspire community change through public forums
Cop in the Head: Liberate yourself and others from internalized oppression
Some of our social change projects include:
A new approach to funding urban development in New York by the Ford Foundation to address the related issues of housing, transportation, and economic development through comprehensive funding and services and progressive state policies.
A four-year initiative to rebuild Azerbaijan’s civil society, establish collaborative conflict resolution models, and implement social and personal change training for human service professionals, and community and government leaders to heal the traumatized communities they serve.
An international conference in Guatemala that brought economists, academics, and activists together with the goal of of placing people before profits that culminated in the formation of a global coalition invested in sustainable change.
Community forums and workshops using Theatre for Change to explore and transform group and power dynamics in schools, organizations and communities in the US, Greece, and Azerbaijan.
A partnership with Duo to launch a Holistic Health and Community Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, that provides comprehensive alternative health care, counseling, and community services.
What People Are Saying
“Linda Provenza is one of the most skilled and insightful strategic leaders I’ve have had the privilege of working with. Ms. Provenza’s strength lies in her ability to build bridges across seemingly disparate groups, and channel that energy toward common interests, goals, and strategies. Her innovative problem-solving and facilitation strategies combine the best of organizational development theory with social change practice, making her firm, Strategies for Change, an indisputable asset and leader in the field.”
— Jerry Maldonado, Director at Ford Foundation
