Niiloona Wulalohkehna
“We all do good work”
Services
When we build respectful relations with each other, we are able to do good work together. BPC is a critical thought partner and effective service provider because we offer an equitable, inclusive, and authentically engaged service and learning experience. When you invest in BPC, we will both learn in context, and you will acquire skills and teachings that are applicable for a lifetime so you can be in better service and support to others.
At our roots, BPC is grounded in origin stories, which strengthens our relationships by enabling learning, unlearning, and relearning with others.
Our Services
Research
Western literature and practices are not neutral. In fact, they are harmful and cause trauma to BIPOC communities. In order to do no harm, we must rely on different research literature bases, methodologies, and practices to be transformative in our work. BPC provides literature reviews, outreach and engagement strategy documents, feasibility or landscape studies, needs assessments, policy scans, primary and secondary research studies (PI or coPI) that center culturally responsive, indigenous, decolonized, and equity focused designs and strategies. BPC is also able to review current research study designs, provide secondary research analysis, co-create or develop new research instruments, and develop concurrent BIPOC literature bases that will strengthen professional and academic publications, presentations, and keynotes that incorporate inclusivity, equity, diversity, and Indigenous sources, resources, and networks.
Examples of Work
feasibility studies
policy studies
workforce studies
literature reviews
customer service studies
market studies/analysis
Development Services
What we learn, where we learn it , and who we learn it from matters. In order to learn, unlearn, and relearn together, BPC offers development services that use western and BIPOC sources of scholarship, evidence bases, and methods. BPC provides a variety of development services for equity, diversity, and inclusion of Tribal Nations and Indigenous content; inclusion of Nation-to-Nation Tribal/non-Tribal governance and policy strategies; and human scientific skill and professional competency development for academics, leaders, board members, and practitioners to have respectful, reciprocal, and competent professional practices and behaviors with Tribal Nations, Indigenous community members, and BIPOC scholars and professionals.
Examples of Work
staff professional development
board or leadership training
policy and handbook development
creation of a strategic plan
Technical Assistance
Learning and evidence should be grounded in scholarship, practice, and lived experience. By actively engaging in the practice of evaluation, you will receive a western and BIPOC knowledge base as well as the opportunity to practice it in context. By incorporating evaluation learning within applied technical assistance activities, you will understand theory and method by doing it and using experience to help refine how evaluation can be done more effectively, equitably, and responsively. BPC can provide ongoing thought partnership or subject matter expertise to support existing or new projects, programs, and initiatives locally or globally. This would also include scientific, cultural, or other technical supports (community consultations, outreach and engagement, strategic or community planning) that provide synchronous guidance and resources in context(s) of implementation, learning, and/or practice.
Examples of Work
support for new grants or programs
monitoring and providing feedback on new policies/procedures
working on certifications or accreditations
support for implementation of a new strategic plan or workforce practice learned through a training
Evaluation
Our responsive and effective evaluation services offer a wide variety of innovative and evidence informed options that are uniquely tailored to the needs of the partners, communities, and stakeholders we support. Evaluation can be used to build capacity, to increase knowledge and skills, for research on evaluation to test interventions and models, to monitor or understand changes and impacts, and/or for sustainability or other long-term planning and development purposes. Evaluation services and topics on which BPC can provide support or leadership include: program or systems evaluation, evaluation policy development, keynotes on evaluation, evaluation research, evaluation trainings, utilizing and valuing evaluation, culturally responsive and other data visualization evaluation reporting techniques, outcome or impact evaluation, process or implementation evaluation, Nation-to-Nation evaluation between Tribal and non-Tribal governments, developmental or utilization focused evaluations, building and testing theories of change and logic or program service delivery models, and evaluation studies that center equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigenous, BIPOC, or other underrepresented populations within traditional evaluation studies or activities.
Examples of Work:
needs assessments
external grant evaluations
setting up monitoring/performance systems
data retreats using evaluation or research data to make data-driven and strategic decisions about programming, workforce, or organizational initiatives.
Evidence Based, Culturally Responsive
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