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Pratt Fine Arts Center is a non-profit arts education and resource center in the Squire Park area of Seattle’s Central District.  The school now serves 3200 students and 500 working artists, offering facilities for glassblowing, lampworking, glass bead-making, flame-worked glass, metal sculpture, bronze casting, stone carving, jewelry and metal-smithing, woodworking, printmaking, painting and drawing.  Programs include adult and youth education (including free Saturday programs for youth), master artist intensives and visiting artist programs, and studio access programs for working artists.

Fife Consulting is providing a two- to three-month board evaluation and planning process to include a needs assessment, related report and facilitated mini-retreat.

The Seattle Office of Economic Development is powered by diversity, innovation, and a spirit of adventure.  They promote economic mobility and shared prosperity by providing resources to entrepreneurs and innovators, and to Seattle’s current and future workers. They support small neighborhood businesses and community ownership, and connect Seattle’s workforce to meaningful careers across the economy.

Fife Consulting provided community relations services to help engage local businesses at the neighborhood level around assessment of specific special festival events.

The mission of the Office of Film + Music is to support and equitably grow the creative economy, with a focus on strengthening the film, music, nightlife, and special events sectors.

Fife Consulting provided community relations services to help assess the permitting of specific special events at the neighborhood level.

Seattle Department of Neighborhoods provides resources and opportunities for community members to build strong communities and improve their quality of life. Through their programs and services, we meet people where they are and help neighbors develop a stronger sense of place, build closer ties, and engage with their community and city government.

Fife Consulting is providing community relations services to engage local stakeholders in the Capitol Hill neighborhood to assess special events in the area.

City Arts was a free monthly arts and culture magazine published for 12 years in Seattle and distributed throughout Puget Sound.

Fife Consulting provided leadership, management and strategic advisory services to City Arts, even serving as publisher for a year before it became independent in 2018.

The long-time family owners of the NW corner of 12th and Jackson in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Seattle are planning to redevelop the property.  The first phase is for the West end of the property and will involve two towers and a plaza in between.  The project includes a new storefront for the Viet-Wah grocery, a day-care center, a hotel and a community-based theater and cultural programming organization.

Fife Consulting has been brought in to help with the planning and development of the theatre and cultural programming organization.  We are helping to assemble an advisory board, conduct community engagement and articulate a long-term programming and business plan.

In early 2015, The Nature Consortium and Delridge Neighborhood Development Association (DNDA) began to explore a now completed merger of their two organizations.  As the parent organization for a number of low-income housing developments and the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, where The Nature Consortium is housed, DNDA was a good candidate for merging.  However, both organizations have been in long periods of transition and evolution, calling for a strong consideration of all of the various strategic, tactical and administrative elements under consideration for a successful merger.  Fife Consulting performed a general assessment on capacity and strategy for both organizations, including a final report, presentation and facilitation of both staff and board discussions.