Align AZO

Connecting communities, businesses and livelihoods.

With over 40 years of experience designing, implementing, and evaluating complex initiatives across education, workforce development, and economic opportunity initiatives, Align AZO works with communities, organizations, and funders to turn vision into sustainable results.

AlignAZO supports communities and organizations to move from ideas to implementation, designing impact-driven programs, leveraging evidence-based frameworks for aligning stakeholders and resources around a shared vision, evaluating the impact and effectiveness of existing programs and systems, and securing the funding to make it happen.

AlignAZO's work spans strategic planning, research, policy development, program evaluation, grant development, and organizational capacity building. Whether you're launching a place-based scholarship program, strengthening existing programs & policies to better support community residents, or transitioning a grassroots initiative into a sustainable nonprofit, AlignAZO brings both technical expertise and practical experience in making complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives work.

Recent & Current Projects:

• Leading qualitative research on local and regional workforce outcomes

• Multi-year evaluation of local and regional economic opportunity programs

• Designing evidence-based programs and policy that improve economic mobility outcomes for communities and residents

• Advising communities across the US on place-based postsecondary and workforce scholarship design and implementation

• Grant strategy and writing across education, workforce development, economic development, and environmental conservation