Justice. Strategy. Community.
These three words are more than a slogan for Anaya Enterprises—they are a quiet declaration that the way you serve people is about to change. When we work together, you are not just hiring a grant writer or a strategist; you are choosing a partner who values building strategic partnerships to help your organization to think with innovation, design boldly, and build systems that make justice the norm rather than the exception. At AE we value justice-centered strategy that builds community through C.A.R.E.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
C.A.R.E. is our framework for justice-centered strategy—prioritizing Community, expanding Access, applying Revolutionary approaches, and advancing lasting Empowerment to strengthen collective impact.
Justice as the starting point
Every community, campus, and small business has a story about who has been welcomed in—and who has been left on the margins waiting outside the door. Justice asks us to tell the whole story.
When your organization begins a project with justice at the center, a subtle shift happens: questions change. Instead of “How do we fix what is broken?” the team starts asking “Whose ideas and perspectives have been ignored, and what would it look like to build around their strengths?” “What community has been overlooked, and what would it look like to explore its assets?’ In our work together, we will surface those overlooked voices—staff, students, clients, vendors, neighbors—and treat them as co-designers of the future you are building to reach your organizational mission.
This is not about charity. It is about power, access, and possibility: rewriting the rules so that your policies, grant proposals, and programs are designed with, not just for, the people you serve.
Strategy that feels like collaboration
Too many strategic plans live in binders and shared drives, never quite reaching the day-to-day decisions that shape people’s lived experiences. The organizations that work with our consulting practice do something different: they invite strategy to live in conversations, in experiments, and in relationships.
In facilitated sessions, your team, board members, students, or community partners will map out the assets you already hold—trusted relationships, cultural knowledge, real estate, lived experience, local businesses, anchor institutions—and build strategy around those strengths rather than deficits. Instead of long lists of problems, we will co-create:
Clear impact questions that keep justice at the core of every funding proposal, project idea, and program design.
Asset-based goals that name what you want to grow, not just what you want to stop.
Practical roadmaps for grants, revenue streams, partnerships, and process changes that your team can actually implement.
By the end, strategy will not feel like a document that is never looked at again. It will feel like a shared language your organization uses to make everyday decisions more fair and more courageous.
Community as a living system
Community is not a line in a mission statement or the first word in our C.A.R.E framework; it is a living system of people, places, histories, and futures connected in real time. When an organization decides to take community seriously, the work changes shape. Meetings begin with stories from the front lines. Partners around the table stop being “stakeholders” and instead become co-creators.
In this consulting work, community shows up in three ways:
Co-creation with stakeholders: Listening sessions, focus groups, and design workshops that move beyond surveys and checklists. People closest to the issues are invited to sketch solutions, to design their communities, not just describe barriers.
Shared ownership of solutions: small businesses, nonprofits, for profits, educational institutions and grassroots leaders sit side by side, designing pilots and projects that braid their assets together. A small business may offer space or technology, a neighborhood nonprofit community history, a university might contribute research—and the result is a project no single partner could have built alone.
Sustainable systems and processes: Together we examine policies, workflows, and service pathways to make sure the community can actually access what you offer—without unnecessary fees, waitlists, paperwork, or confusion. The goal is always the same: more justice, less friction. More opportunities for social capital to achieve economic mobility.