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Strategy & systems design
Turn a complex community challenge into an actionable plan, with the right partners, roles, measures, and path to sustainability.
Strategy for stronger communities
Build the system
your community needs.
Resilient Ground Advisory helps organizations turn hard community challenges into practical strategy, fundable programs, and durable systems—bringing the experience and tools to move the work forward.
Local needShared strategy
01Care
02Community
03Funding
04Evidence
Strong systems form when the right people, resources, and evidence connect around a shared outcome.
Enterprise to startupEngagements sized to the problem
Rural by experienceBroader in perspective
Strategy through deliveryAdvice built to be used
What we do
Practical counsel. Serious tools. Work that moves.
We meet organizations where they are and build the engagement around what will actually create momentum.
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Grant readiness & review
Strengthen the case, sharpen the narrative, and pressure-test every component before an application reaches the reviewer.
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Implementation support
Move from plan to practice with project structure, stakeholder alignment, working tools, and hands-on problem solving.
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Technology enablement
Apply practical software and AI where they reduce friction, improve consistency, and help teams make better decisions.
Rural health ecosystems
Where complex needs become connected systems.
Rural communities often have the commitment and ingenuity to solve their hardest challenges—but limited capacity, fragmented resources, and programs built in isolation can hold progress back.
We help leaders connect healthcare, behavioral health, schools, justice, housing, recovery, public agencies, and community voices into a system that works together.
Cross-sector alignmentSustainable fundingMeasurable outcomesCommunity ownership
Built aroundPeople + place
01Healthcare
02Recovery
03Housing
04Justice
05Schools
06Community
Built for the work in front of you
Big system. Small startup. Same commitment.
Our team has advised organizations across Wisconsin—from large healthcare environments and public systems to new nonprofits putting their first operating model on paper.
Health systems
Enterprise-scale strategy, cross-sector partnership, and funding alignment.
Schools
Student and family initiatives designed around real community conditions.
Counties
Collaborative planning across agencies, providers, and public systems.
Treatment courts
Program design and resource coordination grounded in recovery.
Community nonprofits
Focused support for shelters, housing programs, and local service providers.
New ventures
From a promising idea to a credible, fundable, operational model.
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We do not arrive with a one-size-fits-all playbook. We bring a disciplined way to understand the work, strengthen it, and get it done.
Grant review rubricRGA / 01
Reviewer impactA clearer case for support
ANeed & urgency
92%
Program design
88%
Outcomes & evidence
90%
Reader confidence
94%
Illustrative review view. Final criteria are tailored to each opportunity.
Grant strategy & review
Write for the person who has to score it.
A strong idea is not enough. Reviewers need to understand the need, trust the plan, see the outcomes, and find every required detail—quickly.
Our grant review rubric examines applications through that reader's lens. It helps teams improve narrative impact, consistency, compliance, and scoring potential before submission.
- Narrative clarity and evidence
- Alignment to published criteria
- Budget and program consistency
- Compliance and document completeness
AI-powered grant scoring
Every document. One coordinated review.
Our scoring workflow can evaluate the full application package—not just the main narrative—to surface gaps, contradictions, compliance risks, and opportunities to strengthen the reviewer's experience.
Technology adds speed and consistency. Experienced human judgment shapes the final recommendation.
NARRATIVE.PDFReviewed
BUDGET.XLSXAligned
ATTACHMENTSComplete
Coordinated review12 files checked4 priorities surfaced
Technology that supports the work
Tools designed from the work—not around it.
Our advisory practice is strengthened by purpose-built technology that helps teams manage funding knowledge, institutional context, and complex workflows.
fundlucent
A funding intelligence and grant workflow platform designed to help organizations find clarity across opportunities, documents, decisions, and delivery.
wellcomon
An AI knowledge layer that helps organizations bring scattered information together, preserve context, and put what they know to work.
COMMONROOTSRural systems in practice
Proof of concept
Common Roots: the work, connected.
The CRIWI / Common Roots network demonstrates what becomes possible when community partners stop operating as separate programs and begin building around shared outcomes.
It is a living model for the work we advise: locally grounded, cross-sector, measurable, and designed to become stronger over time.
Local leadershipShared infrastructureContinuous learning
How we engage
Start with a conversation. Build from there.
Start with the real need
A focused conversation to understand the challenge, the people affected, and what success must look like.
Build the right engagement
A clear scope sized to the work—whether that is a single review, a strategic sprint, or embedded support.
Work side by side
Practical collaboration, visible progress, and tools your team can keep using after the engagement ends.
A grant due next month. A program that needs a stronger model. A partnership ready for its next chapter.
Bring us the work in front of you.Let's talk
What are you trying to make possible?
Tell us a little about your organization and the work ahead. We'll follow up to explore what kind of support would be most useful.
Direct emailmichael@impactwi.org
Small project?
Still worth a conversation. We work with initiatives at every stage and scale.