Customized Services to Support Your Mission
Below you will find a suite of SeededGround’s most commonly requested services. We can arrange a singular service, or multiple offerings can be provided via a customizable package. Rates are determined based on the scope and scale of service. Funds generated from this work are ultimately what allows SeededGround to produce our own original projects/resources that are accessible and freely available.
All eight services are conducted in alignment with our primary areas of expertise. Areas of expertise include but are not limited to: disability justice, disaster justice, racial justice, environmental justice, health justice, transportation justice and crisis management.
Speeches and Presentations
SG is often requested to provide keynote speeches or specialized presentations. These singular one-time talks can range from 10 minutes to 2 hours. Check out our Speeches & Presentations page to view a diverse selection of past offerings.
This Service Is Most Ideal For:
Groups in need of a captivating speaker who can generate curiosity and meaningful momentum on a specified event theme/topic.
Host/MC
SG founder, Justice Shorter, is frequently secured to MC events and host podcast series. When requested, Justice can simultaneously serve as the event’s show runner and our team can support with recruitment/guest prep. We can be booked for one-time events or as often as required pending availability.
This Service Is Most Ideal For:
Groups interested in partnering with a host/MC who can hold spaces with considerable care, charisma, curiosity and community values.
Facilitation
Our Facilitation practice is grounded in an ethic of interdependence, collective care and collective access. We are most often requested to facilitate creative community conversations/gatherings or to mitigate contentious situations within organizations. Facilitation services can range from 1-day events to multi-year processes.
This Service Is Most Ideal For:
- Groups who require skilled support with navigating complex conversations.
- Groups who wish to embark on imaginative thought-work/collective ideation sessions.
Training Series
Trainings are our most regularly requested service. The most effective trainings are serialized to offer in-depth content/conversations over weeks, months or years. Multi-day sessions during conferences, retreats and summits have also proven highly valuable for attendees. Whenever possible, we strive to secure experts of color and people with disabilities to serve as presenters, panelists, advisors and contributors. SG is well known for the creativity, efficacy and power of our immersive training experiences.
This Service Is Most Ideal For:
Groups who wish to concentrate on in-depth capacity building/skill sharing.
R&R: Review & Recommendations
R&R grants organizations a present-day/real-time snapshot of accessibility standards and disability inclusion practices. Similar to a sensitivity reading, R&R offers insight on harmful and discriminatory language/practices.
Furthermore, we recommend realistic options to resolve or repair such issues. The service is a one-time review of policies, projects and/or programs. Recommendations are made based on relevant research, reviewer experience, organizational priorities and a disability justice praxis. The duration of this service may vary depending on the number of policies/projects/programs under review.
This Service Is Most Ideal For:
- Groups who simply need to know where and how to start embedding accessibility/equity.
- Groups who desire to track/affirm their ongoing progress.
Access Audits
Access audits provide full-scale assessments of an organization over larger swaths of time; in this way they differ significantly from the narrower scope of R&R snapshots. Audits are thus usually buttressed by a range of designated months/years of particular importance/relevance. Typically this process includes extensive engagement with staff, board members, program recipients/participants and others throughout an organization’s ecosystem. Audits may involve documents reflective of institutional memories, departmental interviews, HR policies, strategic plans, program inputs/outcomes, public facing websites, internal digital platforms, facilitated discussions etc.
This Service Is Most Ideal For:
Groups with a vested interest in thorough assessments that thoughtfully measure, monitor, evaluate and evolve accessibility and inclusion standards.
Consultation/Accompaniment
Retain SG to receive on-site or virtual advisory support with operationalizing justice-based practices (see areas of expertise above). We work alongside groups to transition strategic plans, ideas and aspirations into realized actions, policies and programming. We can accompany leadership and staff throughout all phases of development, implementation and assessment.
This Service Is Most Ideal For:
Groups who have staff capacity to do the work, but are in need of comprehensive guidance/external expertise on how to do the work.
Accessibility Coordination/Curation
SG is commonly requested to directly coordinate/curate Access considerations for events. This may include procurement of assistive devices, management of access volunteers, recruitment of access vendors (i.e. interpreters, captioners, peer support etc.), drafts of access announcements, groundwork with disabled artists/contributors, check-in calls with all individuals who have requested reasonable accommodations, coordination across all departments involved with the designated event/program and on-site/virtual support with emergent access needs. Coined by Mia Mingus, Liberatory Access is the embodiment of intentional and imaginative community care. Consequently, this service is a practice of love, dignity, belonging, joy and safety.
This Service Is Most Ideal For:
Organizations seeking to source external leadership/coordination for access considerations rooted in relationships and resourcefulness.