Buris Chalmers uses a human-centered design thinking process to help organizations identify challenges, uncover opportunities, and develop effective solutions. Through stakeholder engagement, research, collaborative workshops, and iterative testing, we help clients understand audience needs, generate ideas, prototype concepts, and refine strategies based on feedback. This approach ensures communications, programs, and initiatives are grounded in real-world insights and designed for measurable impact.
Buris Chalmers Communications helps organizations build the skills, confidence, and shared language they need to communicate well and work better together.
Our trainings are practical, engaging, and tailored to the needs of each team.
We offer sessions on:
Social Media Strategy
Facilitation
Storytelling
Agenda Creation
Team Tactics
Buris Chalmers helps nonprofit and government organizations address complex challenges through program assessment, staff coaching, earned-income strategy development, organizational improvement initiatives, and leadership guidance. Our work focuses on increasing stability, growing impact, strengthening financial sustainability, and supporting clear, informed decision-making.
We offer trainings for facilitators, help to build agendas and also offer community process design as needed.
A fundamental opportunity for staff and stakeholder communications where participants build a thoughtful plan and design an organizational roadmap that answers questions, meets challenges, identifies specific steps and helps an organization meet its goals.
Our team has provided successful grant writing services on behalf of several nonprofit organizations that were submitted to local, state and federal grant sources. With a clear understanding of grantsmanship, we have provided support for organizations seeking funding for organizational capacity, early childhood development, general operating expenses, affordable housing, rural economic development projects, workforce training, access to markets and cooperative marketing, equipment for specialty agriculture, food and beverage entities, and arts and culture development.
