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Advancing Belonging without Othering

Seed Collaborative works alongside people and organizations to transform structures, systems, and cultures toward belonging for all.

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The Belonging Leadership Lab

Leading with Belonging Lab

Join us in May 2026

A Course, a Community, a Co-Created Roadmap

Become the Leader–the manager, director, and human–your Heart Desires and the World Needs. Open to aspiring and seasoned leaders, from corporate to community, nonprofit to government to foundation, health and education sectors. A live, virtual, interactive 7-session program over 3 months.

You will learn how to:

● Instill the elements of belonging into values, practice and leadership

● Develop and tell a compelling story of dignity and belonging

● Build belonging culture in institutions and structures

● Embrace belonging measurement, evaluation and data

● Co-create roadmaps with the group on operationalizing belonging

● Gather and knitting together a world of care, opportunity and belonging

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Co-Created Intelligence

We believe in Us. And we believe in a future of dignity, humanity, opportunity and care. Come co-create with Seed — a strategy for a future of belonging for institutions, municipalities, neighborhoods, and corporations.

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Organizations served over 10 years

Seed has supported nonprofits, foundations, government, and corporate clients on both internal and external equitable outcomes. Our clients come from sectors, such as education, healthcare, housing, legal services, early childhood, and technology.

Let’s stop just hoping – or despairing – about the future, and instead organize our structures, stories, culture and tools, like AI, to help call a future into being where all belong and no group is othered. I do not believe in hope. But I do believe in you.

john a. powell

Co-Founder | Seed Collaborative and Director | Othering & Belonging Institute

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Clients are multi-year or on repeat

Seed develops lasting relationships built on successful client outcomes and principles of co-creation, trust, transparency and sensitivity to different cultures, leadership styles, and governance structures.

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Leaders in our Targeted Universalism Community of Practice

Since 2023, participants from 25 states have immersed themselves in Targeted Universalism to reduce structural, systemic and cultural inequity and increase care, opportunity and belonging.

Seed helped us develop a five-year strategic plan. While this process is always complicated, it was particularly challenging given that it was our first post-COVID plan . . . and we experienced an unexpected fiscal crisis. The Seed team adapted and helped us successfully complete the process.

Mark Loranger

President & CEO | Chrysalis

Seed is amazing, full stop. Every time we work with Seed, we feel heard, supported, and like we’re able to move forward.

Kaile Shilling

Executive Director | Arts for Incarcerated Youth

Stellar facilitation, strategic guidance . . . navigated difficult conversations with ease. Brought joy to the process and deepened trust.

Tom DeCaigny

Executive Director | California Alliance for Arts Education

It has helped me to understand that belonging and compassion are not just “nice”, but essential, measurable and take practice…

Erica Lee

Restorative Justice Educator

Those in the equity and belonging work, those leading the conversations, have so few spaces to share with one another. We need community too and a place to go get energized so we can show up for those who need us.

Tevin Medley

Consultant | Medley and Todd-Roberson Consulting LLC

The CoP provides a comfortable space to learn, engage, and increase your level of knowledge of TU. The sessions provide various opportunities to engage with participants from various sectors, which is part of the richness.

Gabriela B. Delgado

San Diego County Office of Education

Services & Programs

Services:

Co-creating with clients is at the heart of what Seed does – including equity plans, assessment for action, belonging culture change, strategic planning, and implementing TU and belonging. We also advise on economic development, m&a, and sustainability planning.

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Programs:

Experiential learning, dynamic training and co-creating solutions – Seed holds Targeted Universalism Communities of Practice (TU COP) and Belonging Workshops. We also design custom incubators or COPs for organizations and communities implementing TU and belonging.

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Explore Our Communities of Practice

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Latest Insights

Resources and perspectives on building belonging and advancing equity

Targeted Universalism Case Studies

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Belonging, Bridging & Targeted Universalism Resources

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