Coevolve, LLC is a Colorado-based boutique consulting firm providing expert technical assistance to social enterprises and cooperatives.
What We Offer
We produce comprehensive business and organizational model documentation through an original process that centers deep-dive interviews with visionary leaders, stakeholders, members and customers. Such work includes:
- “one-pagers” and pitch decks
- comprehensive business plans (up to 60 pages)
- initial financial models (called a pro forma)
We assist in producing a wide range of essential documentation needed by start-up ventures. Examples include:
- company or project charter
- initial marketing & website copy
- strategic plans
- business plans
- operational and technical documentation (as needed)
Gain the missing skills and knowledge to be an outstanding cooperative leader. Together we will devise a custom professional development plan focused on rounding out these competencies:
- servant leadership
- dialogue & conflict management
- breaking out of capitalist and hierarchical paradigms
- group facilitation
Receive expert meeting design and facilitation from a 13-year expert in the field of cooperatives and democratic decision-making. We offer event design and facilitation for leadership summits, board retreats, member meetings, stakeholder engagement and more.
We additionally have skills and expertise in the following areas:
- Curriculum development
- Program and product development
- Organizational and business design consulting
- Change management consulting
We are passionate organizers helping you clarify and articulate your project’s plans and path, to gain greater buy-in from your stakeholders & community.
Featured Past & Present Clients
Living Systems Institute is a nonprofit dedicated to healing nature, producing abundance, sequestering excess atmospheric carbon, and building an inclusive society. Founded in 2013 by David Braden in Golden, CO through the establishment of a permanent demonstration deep mulch gardens and chicken educational homestead site, leadership was handed off to executive director Caroline Savery in 2023. The board meets quarterly, and under Caroline’s leadership, are several new program and partnership developments.
Services received: Executive director role (current)
Date: 2023-2024
Website: livingsystemsinst.org
Priceless Ceremonies has a mission to advance the “gifted” model for the sharing of natural medicines in Colorado by further gifting transformative ceremonies. Through the power of paradigms of reciprocity and gift economics, we locate our work in the re-indigenizing and community cultivation necessary for true healing to take place in society. Slogan: “We refuse to put a price on people’s liberation.”
Services received: Leadership coaching, Cofounding/incubation
Date: 2024
Website: pricelessceremonies.com (coming soon)
Resonance Chinese Medicine is devoted to empowering people to access the wisdom of their bodies and trust flow-based paradigms of health. Chinese Medicine is an altogether different paradigm for understanding how the human experience affects the body and disease mechanisms. It is uniquely good at getting to the root of and resolving difficult, stubborn, and perplexing physical and mental health issues, whether they arose from trauma, conditioning experienced during child and adolescence, or diet and lifestyle imbalances. While it can be used for long-term health maximization, it can also be used for issue resolution, through dietary therapy, gaining insight into what the body is showing us, acupuncture, and Qigong. RCM works together with clients to empower them to understand how to cultivate deeper resilience in your body, mind, and spirit.
Services received: Leadership coaching, marketing writing
Date: 2024
Website: resonancechinesemedicine.com
Aurora Economic Opportunity Coalition (AEOC) is a 501c3 non-profit registered in Colorado, which strives to promote long-term wealth building within the historically underserved community of NW Aurora by providing professionals and businesses access to a comprehensive network of valuable resources. Led by Mateos Alvarez, AEOC runs the Dayton Street Day Labor Center as well as incubates co-ops to create wealth-building opportunities for low-income, immigrant entrepreneuers to revitalize historic downtown Northwest Aurora.
Services received: Business plan and financial model creation (multiple projects and ventures), facilitation, project management
Date: 2017-2024
Website: theaeoc.org
Food Justice Northwest Aurora was founded in 2022 through community collaboration to address the persistent disparities in Northwest Aurora residents’ access to fresh, healthy food. Fiscally sponosred by the Aurora Economic Opportunity Coalition, FJNWA operates multiple programs. Their mission is to build a multicultural, intergenerational, and intersectional movement for food justice and food sovereignty to transform the local food system in NW Aurora, CO. Their strategy includes: creating a just, sustainable, and complete food environment by mobilizing people, organizations, and businesses; building community wealth; facilitating and nurturing strategic partnerships; and advocating for policy and systems changes.
Their work with Coevolve involved development of a comprehensive greenhouse-based business plan to take over the lease on underutilized City of Aurora-owned greenhouses. Through this comprehensive business plan project, FJNWA was successful in securing $350K and a 3 year lease from the City of Aurora to launch their program.
Services received: Business plan and financial model creation, project management
Date: 2022-2024
Website: foodjusticenwaurora.org
Calm Downs is the hub of a “networked social enterprise” based out of Boulder, CO that includes Colorado Healing House in Morrison, CO. Calm Downs is a business management consulting firm and business and nonprofit developer, a private company that invests in businesses that are creating positive change in our world, with a current focus on the Natural Medicine, Security, Aviation, Energy, Creative Writing, Affordable Housing, and Cannabis industries.
Services received: Business development consulting, Key document creation, Video production
Date: 2023
Website: calmdowns.com
Shared Ground was founded as an alternative “third space” and “cooperative congregation” of activists, entrepreneurs, and community leaders in the Highlands neighborhood of Denver, CO. Occupying a historic church, Shared Ground was a passionate project to create a “community climate & social resiliency sanctuary” before such hubs would be widely necessitated by systems collapse. Although the space thrived as an affordable event hub (free to BIPOC providers), a lack of cooperative management savvy and lack of shared vision for what the space’s core purpose was undid the organization after just 1.5 years.
Services received: Cofounding/incubation, organizational model design, leadership, facilitation, project management, operational systems design and development
Date: 2021-2023
Website: sharedground.co
Civic Consulting Collaborative is a cooperative of professional consultants headquartered in Denver, CO, specialized in stakeholder engagement process to generate solutions to complex social and environmental issues. Their mission is to help navigate even the most challenging social and environmental issues of our time, providing a unique model for consultants to harness their collective expertise and provide opportunities for collaboration, partnership and innovation to maximize our impact around shared values.
Services received: Organizational development consulting
Date: 2019-2021
Website: civicconsultingcollaborative.com
Center for Community Wealth Building is a nonprofit based in Denver, CO whose work is driven by a commitment to economic justice, inclusivity, inspiration, and transformation. We work to inspire a fundamental shift within individuals, communities, institutions, and systems to support a thriving local economy and a healthy and sustainable way of life. Their work includes education, training and development consulting for cooperative entrepreneurs and the community ecosystems that support them.
Services received: Curriculum development, facilitation, and program development of their landmark “Co-op Train the Trainers” program, which has now graduated over 100 people.
Date: 2017-2020
Website: communitywealthbuilding.org
Fat Pig Society is a worker cooperative based in Fort Collins, CO dedicated to producing hemp for CBD and generating wealth for small farmers to maintain the sustainability of small farms in the region and across the country. Their mission is to save small organic farm businesses through economic innovation and cooperation. They wish to tie the economic health and longevity of farms and farmers to the health and wellness of people everywhere through CBD hemp.
Services received: Organizational development consulting, extensive documentation (core organizational documents, external-facing marketing, and internal planning and operations documents. Note: Most of the written contents on their current website were produced by Coevolve.
Date: 2017-2020
Website: fatpigsociety.com
Cosmos Cooperative is a member-owned publishing platform and creative community whose mission is to inspire, connect, and educate in the process of creating a more beautiful world. We bring together visionary writers, artists, scholars, media makers, and community builders to collaborate on transformational projects.
Services received: Co-founding/incubation, organizational development consulting, vision/concept development, extensive core document creation
Date: 2017-2020
Website: cosmos.coop
SPORE was founded by Kevin Matthews and others in 2017 to address the need for community engagement and empowerment in the legislative process, following the decriminalization of psylocibin mushrooms in Denver. SPORE nearly collapsed in December 2020, except Caroline became interrim executive director and served until July 2021. Today, the organization has renamed and restructured itself as The Mycoalition and maintains a broad and diverse network of solidary activists, advocates, and practitioners fighting for social justice in psychedelic spaces.
Services received: Organizational consulting, interrim executive director (6 months)
Date: 2019-2021
Website: themycoalition.org
Meet Caroline
Coevolve is helmed by Caroline Savery who has gained 13 years of diverse experience as an independent organizational and business development consultant to nearly two dozen co-ops, nonprofits and social enterprises across numerous industries, sectors and regions.
Caroline's work features deep knowledge and perspective about how cooperatives follow living systems patterning and can be designed using regenerative social design methodologies.
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