Understanding and activating your key stakeholders is challenging but we can help.

At Impact with Kashema, we partner with organizations to craft innovative methods to energize their stakeholder communities. We specialize in evaluating your organization’s needs and current stakeholder community engagement and then creating an action plan to enhance your recruitment, onboarding, management, and cultivation activities. Through thoughtful strategy planning and execution, we primarily serve education institutions, nonprofits, and industry associations, working closely with clients to strengthen their stakeholder experience in alignment with their mission.

If you're a small to medium-sized organization determined to maximize your engagement with your community of stakeholders (i.e partners, volunteers, members, alumni, program participants), you're in the right place. Contact us to get your community on a pathway of high impact and measurable success.

We Assist With:

Program Design & Implementation

  • Program Activity Development & Implementation

  • Quality Assurance

  • Process Improvement

  • Program Evaluation

Stakeholder Community Engagement

  • Stakeholder Experience Research

  • Engagement Strategy Development

  • Community Management & Activation

  • Community Needs Assessment

  • Relationship Management & Cultivation

Event Curation Design & Implementation

  • Event Idea & Development

  • Facilitation & Implementation

  • Event Evaluation

Communication and Outreach Strategy

  • Stakeholder Personas

  • Communications Journey Mapping

  • Newsletter + Email Strategy

  • Content Creation & Storytelling

If you need help answering these questions, contact us!

  • How can we maintain a high rate of partner/member/volunteer retention, year over year?

  • Do we have the right systems and structures in place to build a thriving stakeholder community?

  • What is the current sentiment of our stakeholder community? Are we meeting their needs effectively?

  • How can we equip stakeholders with the tools and knowledge necessary to perform well?

  • How can we thoughtfully increase stakeholder participation without breaking the budget?

  • What programs/products/services should we design or enhance that will bring value to our stakeholder community and meet our organizational goals?

Our Services

Workshops

We’ll spend 1 to 2 hours with you or your team to uncover your stakeholder challenges through interactive exercises and present proven best practices on how to engage your community.

Project-Based Consulting

We’ll do a deep-dive into the inner-workings of your organization through qualitative and quantitative research over an extended amount of time. Once completed, we’ll walk your team through the findings and share recommendations to improve your impact.

Project-Based Contracted Work

Don’t have the capacity needed to implement a project? We can help lessen the load by taking the lead or collaborating with your team to oversee a successful event, program, initiative, or other key tasks for a specified time.

Projects include but not limited to:

  • Volunteer Intake, Screening, and Onboarding Procedure Planning

  • Volunteer Orientation and Training Design

  • Stakeholder Recruitment and Cultivation Strategies

  • Recognition and Appreciation Event Planning

Testimonials.

  • “Kashema’s ability to create relevant, engaging events is unmatched! Her attention to detail, execution, and follow through is incredible and those who participate in/attend her events leave with joy. It was always a pleasure watching her visions come to fruition and seeing the overwhelming success.”

    Whitney Whiting-Gonzalez - Associate Director, Program Design at iMentor

  • "Kashema’s expertise lies in her ability to design strategies to meet ambitious goals without compromising the needs and wants of key stakeholders. Her human-centered approach and empathetic leadership sets her apart to accomplish any task at hand. She designs solutions with creativity and executes flawlessly. Kashema is a dependable leader that builds trust with all those around her and a joy to partner with."

    Sylvia Wong - Senior Director Of Development at America's Promise Alliance

  • "Kashema does a great job assessing the needs of others, determining the best solutions and delivering quality services and programs to assist communities. She leads with thoughtfulness and a genuine desire to make a true impact. She is also dependable, creative and a team player!"

    Tammy Dillard-Steels, MPH, MBA, CAE - CEO of Society for Public Health Education.

  • "Kashema is one of the most thorough and thoughtful researchers/experience managers that I’ve worked with in my career. She puts a lot of care into her craft and ensures a variety of voices are represented in her work. I trust her process as it always leaves me with new, important insights. "

    Director of Mentor Engagement at iMentor

  • "Kashema brings a thoroughness to every project she participates in that raises the standard for all. She is unwavering in the face of obstacle and will be the first to raise critical questions that would otherwise be felt but not voiced by others on the team. Her commitment to equity drives her in all aspects of her work. "

    Senior Director of Program Innovation at OneGoal

Stakeholder Experience Research

Participating in stakeholder experience research empowers organizations to understand the perspectives of their key stakeholders—members, employees, partners, and volunteers—regarding their engagement with the organization's product, service, or program. Throughout the research journey, organizations can evaluate the usability, equity, enjoyability, and usefulness of their offerings. Numerous research methods exist to gauge and quantify real impact. During Kashema’s 10 years of hands-on experience in overseeing diverse stakeholder communities, she has implemented various measures, including distributing experience surveys, orchestrating focus groups, and conducting one-on-one interviews. These efforts aim to enhance how organizations connect with their communities.

Explore her latest project below!

Project One

Project One

Community Engagement Events & Experiences

Among the numerous methods to energize stakeholder communities, organizing events stands out as one of the most effective! Crafting both social and educational events proves to be a valuable approach, providing stakeholders with meaningful connections to each other and a stronger alignment with the organization's mission.

We can help deliver successful educational webinar programs, campaigns designed to educate and activate volunteers, peer-to-peer best-practice exchange sessions, and various strategies aimed at deepening relationships with stakeholders.

We can ensure your event attendees have a memorable experience while achieving your event goals.

My Latest Blog Post

Ever been in a meeting where it feels like everyone’s talking in circles because there just isn’t enough data to make a decision? Or maybe you’ve spent hours trying to figure out how to track your community’s engagement, only to realize you’re not getting the full picture? This is a common challenge across many organizations, but with the right approach, you can effectively measure stakeholder engagement and make sure it supports your strategic goals.

In this article, I share a few simple steps I've learned while keeping stakeholders at the center of my work.

Read more.

Let’s Work Together!

Connect with us to schedule a FREE consultation call! We’ll discuss your needs, our services and how we can best work together to accomplish your goals.

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Chicago, IL

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impactwithkashema@gmail.com

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