For Crissy Field Center: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
This unusual collaboration of partners from different sectors sought to embed principals and practices of diversity into their start up programs and operations. Elizabeth Seja Min worked with staff and key players to develop a strategic program planning and evaluation model that supported the Center’s mission of addressing multicultural, urban environmental concerns within the national park’s context of stewarding natural habitats.

For Generations Ahead: Naming and a Theory of Change
Elizabeth Seja Min worked with the national board and staff to develop a theory of change and a name for this new organization, formerly a program of the Center for Genetics and Society. This project involved honing a complex racial justice and human rights framework, as applied to the new bio-genetic technologies, in service of "advancing inclusive consideration and decision-making about just and responsible uses of genetic technologies, now and in the future."

For New Day Films: Leadership and Business Development for a 35-Year Cooperative
Over 60 micro-businesses make up New Day Films, the most successful filmmaker-owned and operated educational media distributor in history, and one of the oldest cooperative structures in the U.S. As the company’s ongoing consultant, Elizabeth Seja Min resources New Day’s rotating management team, facilitates the annual meetings of the membership, and stewards the structures and tools that keep this unusual business model transparent, vital and competitive in the marketplace.

For the Tides Foundation Catalyst Fund: Leadership Coaching to Build a Field
As a certified Integral Coach, Elizabeth Seja Min offers coaching programs to small cohorts of board and/or staff leaders. The programs include both group and individual sessions, typically span a six-month period, and result in generative strategies and practices that leaders can apply on the personal, organization and field/issue levels. She provides coaching programs for Tides’ Catalyst Fund, where she works with the fund’s local partners in developing the capacity of women of color-led reproductive justice efforts in eight states across the U.S.

For Women’s Funding Network: Product Development
Elizabeth Seja Min co-authored Making the Case: A Learning and Measurement Tool for Social Change v.1, an internationally-used online instrument that measures the network’s theory of change and builds the case for investment; served on the team that developed the assessment tool Smart Growth: A Life Stage Model for Social Change Philanthropy; wrote the Curriculum Guide for the Women of Color International Development Incubator (2006); and is developing a workbook and e-learning course about diversifying donor bases titled With Our Grandmothers Behind Us & Our Daughters Before Us (forthcoming first quarter 2009).