Clients
Michael Jacoby Brown provides training and coaching for unions, religious groups, community development corporations, public health departments, community health centers, health-focused coalitions, municipal neighborhood service departments, social justice nonprofits, and many other types of organizations and agencies.
Client List
- The Blue Zones Project
- Neighbor To Neighbor
- Stonehill College, Center for Non Profit Management
- Mass Budget and Policy Center
- The Fairmount Community Development Collaborative
- Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporations
- SEIU-1199 Health Care Workers East, Massachusetts
- Mass Climate Action Network
- Department of Health and Hospitals, Healthy Start, Boston
- MA Governor’s Office of Community Affairs, Governor’s Youth Council
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Bowdoin Street Health Center
- Codman Square Health Center
- Framingham , (and Cambridge, Somerville, Boston, Lynn, and Boston Coalitiions for Drug and Alcohol Prevention
- Nueva Esperanza, Holyoke, MA
- Just-A-Start Community Development Corp, Cambridge, MA
- Suffolk University
- Williams College
- Neighborworks America
- Keshet
- Visions-Inc
- Local Community Services Administration, New South Wales, Australia
- Camfield Tenants Association
- Dracut, MA Public Schools
- Dracut, MA Education Association (MTA)
- Neighborhoods USA
- Cochituate Village Neighborhood Association, Wayland MA
Mike is an extraordinary instructor and facilitator. He is highly skilled at making training or meeting participants feel welcomed and free to speak their mind, while maintaining focus and delivering training content or mediating conflicts and reaching consensus in meetings. He will not “kill you by Power Point” and has an uncanny capacity to recognize valuable avenues of discussion on the fly. He works very closely with institutional leaders to understand the context he’s being brought into and the specifics he expected to deliver.
Túbal Padilla-Galiano, Training Consultant III, Curriculum Manager: Community Engagement, Community and Neighborhood Revitalization, NeighborWorks America, Washington DC
When we meet the ‘other’ face to face, our stances shift (Letter to The Boston Globe)In response to Keith O’Brien’s article “Do the math? Uh-oh” (Ideas, Oct. 20), we should not be surprised that numbers and rational arguments don’t change the minds of people about contentious political issues. What works to change attitudes is developing face-to-face relationships among people who often don’t meet each other. When a group of conservative […]
Getting the Best from VolunteersBy Michael Jacoby Brown By following a few time-proven steps, nonprofit leaders can recruit and retain long-term, valuable volunteers – people who will take responsibility for the organization and play an important role in its success. People who want to volunteer with your organization come with a complex and wide range of hopes, talents, and […]
