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Phoenix Uprising
What Survival Taught Me About Systems, Power, and Leadership
“Getting released is something that happens to you. Getting free is something you do.”
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Programs that work for the people inside them.
Abracadabra Consulting knows these systems from both sides of the desk. We help nonprofits, agencies, and community groups across Colorado with grant strategy and management, program development, facilitated planning, trainings and workshops, and community engagement.
Our experience runs from managing an $8 million state grant portfolio across 19 organizations to directing shelter and navigation services and teaching criminal justice at the college level, and it’s grounded in lived experience inside the systems we now help organizations improve.
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Strategy for organizations that serve people navigating hard systems
Housing, benefits, reentry, recovery, domestic violence, juvenile justice. We help the people doing this work build programs that fit, fund them, and tell their story well.
Program development
Design or redesign programs around the people they serve, with plans your staff can actually run.
Grants
Find the right funders, write in the language they use, and stay compliant once the money arrives.
Training & facilitation
Trauma-informed workshops and facilitated planning days for staff and boards.
Storytelling
Impact stories, reports, and messaging that center dignity and lived experience.
Systems navigation
Help your team understand the benefits, housing, legal, and reentry systems your participants face.
Why Abracadabra
Most consultants know these systems from the outside
Abracadabra knows them from both sides of the desk.
- Grant management at scale. An $8 million state grant portfolio across 19 organizations, from award through compliance and reporting.
- Direct service leadership. Directing shelter and navigation services, and advocating alongside the people those programs serve.
- Teaching and facilitation. College-level criminal justice teaching, and trainings for staff, boards, and community members.
- Lived experience. Firsthand experience with housing, benefits, and the justice system shapes every recommendation.
Looking for help for yourself or your family? Abracadabra Consulting works with organizations. Support for individuals navigating benefits and other systems happens through Phoenix Uprising Project, a separate nonprofit project, at phoenixuprisingproject.com.
Let’s talk
Tell us what you’re working on
Send an email about your organization and where you’re stuck, and we’ll find a time to talk.
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