Advancing Belonging without Othering

Seed brings humanity, rigor, and deep expertise to everything they do. They create spaces of collaboration that are rare, productive, and trust-building, which fosters growth, innovation, and new opportunities and ways of thinking.

Evan and her colleagues at SEED Collaborative helped us pull off a national strategy retreat of over 90 different legal services organizations. The meeting was simply the most productive meeting of that scale we’ve ever held. We were responding to dire circumstances, but Evan’s energy, creativity, and focus kept us from spinning into an emergency mindset. Instead, we stayed grounded and these diverse organizations ended up on a unified platform that is sustaining us all to this day.

Working with Seed Collaborative was a highly positive experience. Their team brought a thoughtful, equity-centered, and strategic approach that helped translate complex prevention work into a clear communications and outreach plan grounded in community voice and cross-sector collaboration.

The Seed team was extremely thoughtful and responsive throughout this process. We brought leaders from across Washington State into a learning space to introduce Targeted Universalism and Belonging. Seed took the time to understand our goals and customize the learning experience based on the needs of our partners.

Seed works hard to understand context and organizational needs. My experience was that Seed is professional, helpful, and extremely thoughtful in their approach to working with clients. I appreciated the staff’s ability to challenge graciously and teach humbly through several trainings they hosted with us.