What We Do
We solve complicated problems with practical ways forward.
Chasm works across strategy, policy, implementation, engagement, training, and communications. We help organizations understand what is actually happening, identify what needs to change, and build the systems, relationships, and capacity to make it happen.
Strategy, Systems & Implementation
Good ideas fail when the systems around them aren’t built to carry the work.
Chasm helps organizations turn priorities into workable structures, processes, and implementation plans. That can mean designing something new, untangling something that isn’t working, or providing the senior-level capacity needed to move a complicated initiative forward.
Policy & Public Systems
Policy doesn’t operate in a vacuum. Institutions, incentives, authority, funding, relationships, and operational capacity all shape what happens after a decision is made.
Chasm helps organizations understand those forces, navigate public systems, and develop policy and implementation strategies that account for how institutions and communities actually function.
Community & Stakeholder Engagement
Engagement works when people understand why they’re being asked to participate, what they can actually influence, and what will happen with what they share.
Chasm designs engagement around trust, useful information, and meaningful participation. We help organizations identify who needs to be involved, build processes that fit the community, facilitate difficult conversations, and turn what people share into information decision-makers can actually use.
Rural Health & Human Services
Rural systems operate under a different set of constraints—and often with far less room for error.
Chasm brings a rural lens to healthcare and human services strategy, with particular attention to workforce, access, geography, organizational capacity, infrastructure, and the realities of implementing programs across large or underserved service areas.
Training & Technical Assistance
Sometimes the challenge isn’t knowing what needs to change. It’s making sure people have the knowledge, tools, and support to do the work well.
Chasm develops and delivers practical training and technical assistance for teams, partners, and community organizations. We translate complicated policies and systems into useful guidance, build tools people can actually use, and provide ongoing support as organizations put new approaches into practice.
Strategic Communications
Complicated work still has to make sense to the people who need to understand it.
Chasm helps organizations turn complex policy, strategy, and systems work into clear communication for communities, decision-makers, partners, and the public. That includes developing messaging, translating technical information, and building communication strategies around what different audiences actually need to know.
Ways to Work With Chasm
Bring us a project, a problem, or a gap that needs filling. We work on longer-term strategy and implementation, as well as focused engagements built around a defined decision, conversation, or next step.
Start where the work is.
A focused engagement is a practical way to move a specific issue forward without creating a larger process than the work requires. It can be a short project, a facilitated conversation, a decision-ready analysis, or a clear plan for what happens next.
Common examples include a planning retreat, a stakeholder or partner conversation, a grant-readiness review, an implementation roadmap, a community engagement plan, or a short research and recommendation project.
Not sure what your project needs?
A short conversation is often the easiest place to start. Tell us a little about what you’re working on, and we can figure out whether Chasm is a good fit.