Acre Family Child Care:
Facilitated board training as a precursor to strategic planning and conducted strategic input sessions with care providers.
2023: Grant support to help AFCC complete its capital campaign.
Supported onboarding of new Grants Manager.
2024: Supported MA State ECC recontracting process.

InterAct:
Co-created and facilitated a 3-day board and staff strategic retreat.

Coalition for A Better Acre:
Developed and delivered board retreat as a pre-cursor to strategic planning.

DIY Lowell: Summit planning, facilitation, and grant writing/development assistance.

Good2Go (no longer active):
State and Federal grant writing to support the expansion and innovation of the EV carshare program in environmental justice communities in New England.

Mill City Grows:
Developed and delivered a participatory design process for a new Market Garden program and secured pro bono landscape design consultation for the community garden site.

Cambodian American Literary Arts Association: Bookkeeping and administrative tools development, implementation, and development strategy support.

Sociocracy for All Network:
Community Department Support Circle multilingual coordination and facilitation for department strategy, operations, co-budgeting, and policy development.
NGO Circle Conference planning, OKRs and sector outreach and webinar coordination.

The Lowell Heritage Partnership:
Facilitated action-oriented meetings identifying strategic priorities.

Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership:
Developed and delivered board retreats as a pre-cursor to strategic planning.

Lowell Public Schools:
Supported the Portrait of a Graduate activities as a subcomponent of the district’s strategic planning process in collaboration with Project LEARN.

Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association:
Developed and delivered board and staff retreats leading to a multi-phase strategic planning process, in addition to providing support to the organization and staff for planning and coordinating civic work.

Angkor Dance Troupe, Inc.:
Developed the agenda and planning facilitation of a day-long board retreat, as well as working with the board to update their 2021 strategic plan.

Lowell Votes CERT Program – 2023 Program coordination support for the emerging candidate and campaign training in Lowell, MA. First designed by Mary Tauras in 2021.

Healthy Democracy:
Mary supported a statewide 3-day deliberative dialogue process (Citizens Review panel for the Nurses Staffing Ratios ballot question) via co-moderation and facilitation.

Welcoming America’s Gateways for Growth initiative:
In partnership with New American Economy – Mary led the generation of an immigrant integration strategic planning initiative in Lowell, MA helping cross-sector leaders set benchmarks for improvement per the Welcoming Standard.

Lowell Alliance: Designed and delivered on multiple occasions a simulated public hearing as part of a civic empowerment training series. Also supported with communications, web/CRM development, and training support.

Solidarity Lowell:
Facilitating dialogue group series addressing white privilege and white supremacy, as well as navigating highly charged political discussions in family and community settings.

The Interhelp Network:
Board facilitation on reviewing vision and mission to prepare for long-term strategic planning. Other supports upon request.

Young Invincibles:
Constructing and scoring a research performance task to assist in the hire of a new research policy director.v