Strategy Implementation
Multimedia and Marketing
EnterChange Group, LLC is a small, genderqueer woman-owned research and consulting firm dedicated to elevating people and advancing organizations through equity-driven and inclusive change strategy. This firm is certified as a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), Women’s Business Enterprise (through WBENC), and LGBT Business Enterprise (through NGLCC). We are committed to a human-centered approach to strategic growth that centers Inclusion, Insight, Integrity, and Innovation. Intersectional equity is at the heart of our work. Appreciating difference and promoting the full contribution of all can only help us achieve the richest potential of humanity and organized work. These are the qualities that we aspire to personally and professionally. We listen first, then we use what we learn to build a strategic, equity-driven process to drive the change forward with everyone onboard!
Lead Consultants Sarah and Amanda have a combined 25 years working to advance equity and inclusion across government, arts, education and workforce development in the Pittsburgh region. Sarah holds a PhD in Administrative and Policy Studies from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, and Amanda holds an MBA from Robert Morris University. Both have completed diversity, equity, and inclusion training through organizations like the Aspen Institute, Courageous Conversation Academy, Mid-Atlantic ADA Center, YogaRoots on Location, and the American Association of University Women. Our work has focused on strategic and innovative development that promotes equitable, inclusive, and sustainable access to opportunity and mobility. As consultants, we have worked with both small to medium-sized organizations as well as large nonprofit systems, coalitions, and philanthropic foundations, including American Association of Birth Centers, Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges, and The Pittsburgh Foundation. This background well-positions us to provide customized DEI training and strategic support with strong appreciation for diverse audiences, services, and local/national contexts.
Our appreciative inquiry, strengths-based, positive approach to diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and accessibility/justice work is, in part, about promoting the trust, unity, and accountability needed to begin to heal from racism and other identity-based challenges. We support healing and strategic growth through trainings, resources, and facilitated conversations. We are intentional in centering intersectional identities (race, gender, sexuality, ability, etc.) in our work and the data we collect to inform change efforts. Moreover, we balance the business principles that serve (such as strategy, sustainability, and continual improvement) with trauma-informed, embodied practice that values both how workers think about power and oppression and their lived (physical and emotional) experiences.Overall, EnterChange Group is committed to a person-centered approach to change and organizational growth.
BJ Thomas Consulting Group, LLC, a minority woman-owned small business, is a diversity and inclusion agency dedicated to helping organizations improve their overall brand value and increase bottom-line results by empowering a diverse culture serving a diverse global nation.
Leadership & Professional Development, Strategic Diversity Planning
Government Consulting Firm
We are your GIS solutions and Web Development service experts. We work with clients in diverse industries to evaluate their business needs and create informational platforms that are customized to meet an organization’s goals. We deliver exceptional products every time.
Established in 2016, GDMS aims to provide professional technical services to all organizations. With expertise in Geographical Information Systems, Data Management and Web Development, our experience helps you to design, develop and complete your projects while maintaining organizational and technical standards.
Construction, Development Management, Technology
ACT3 Consulting Partners is a consulting group focusing on [the intersection between] Arts & Culture, Community & Technology. ACT3 was conceived in 2014 by life-long friends: Kendra Ross, Denele Biggs and Tanika Harris. Between the three partners, they represent a wide gamut of experience, areas of expertise and interests. Their experience includes almost 20 years in the music industry, 15+ years in corporate and non-profit sectors and 16+ years in the field of Information Technology for banking and financial institutions. The Partners also represent vast and varied skill sets from Project Management and Program Development to Event Planning, Strategic Planning and Technical Assistance. The Partners are community-engaged servant leaders ready to meet your consulting needs.
Founded in 1997, Astyra Corporation is an award winning staffing, outsourcing and technology integration firm. We offer highly skilled people and are experts in successfully matching out associates to solutions. Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to state and municipal government agencies; financial institutions to major systems integrators. At Astyra, we adapt quickly to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients; and we are a company who has evolved as we’ve grown. Outside-the-box ideas, ingenuity, and never settling for failure are the hallmark traits of our firm. Astyra means Smart Solutions: whether people, process, or technology.
Astyra Corporation is a state-certified MBE and federal-certified DBE company.
Employment & Staffing Services
Business, Recruitment, Training, Workforce & Community Economic Development
Disability employment
Project Management Services
Accounting, Tax, Audit, Project Management, Community Development
Real Estate Leasing, Recycling and Warehousing
Management, Information Technology and Software Engineering
Pennsylvania Women Work is a statewide 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering women in career transition through job readiness, emotional growth, education, training and employment. Our flagship program, New Choices, has served thousands of women across the Commonwealth and assisted them in breaking the cycle of poverty to build better lives for themselves and their families!
Human Services & Workforce Development
Development
General Contractor, Electrical and Carpentry
Church
The Stepping Stone Pathways is a non-profit organization that assists single parents in post-secondary education with a holistic two-generation approach. We are developing an affordable multi-family housing unit (for-profit) to house our corporate clients and students from The Stepping Stone Pathways so they can graduate on time.
Affordable Housing
Private Equity Fundraising
The mission of 1Hood Media is to build liberated communities through art, education and social justice.
Arts & Culture
The Sugar x Butter Company is a woman owned custom catering company in the city of Pittsburgh; Delivering delicious cakes and gourmet food for events of all sizes. Sisters, Meredith & Christine Galloway, have had the privilege of working together to provide custom event catering for weddings, birthdays and holidays for years. GG’s Cafe is currently part of the signature brand, operating in East Liberty, serving up classic, homestyle comfort foods in the community.
Caterer
Private School
Community Center
Entertainment
Paper products, Janitorial supplies, & Chemicals, Food Service Supplies
Founded in 2005, Dress for Success Pittsburgh was established to empower women to become self-sufficient and exit poverty. From our beginnings in a church basement serving 69 women the first year, we have grown to four branches serving five SW Pennsylvania counties and working with over 150 referral partners. Today, we provide clothing and employment readiness support to women across the region.
While we may be best known for providing suits and professional clothing to women, we are first and foremost an anti-poverty organization that focuses on providing a continuum of support and opportunities for vulnerable, low-income women to compete, advance, and support themselves and their families without the need to rely on public assistance.
We achieve our mission through providing suiting and uniform items for women. Women are referred to us who are currently interviewing or who have secured work and need appropriate clothing items. The women we serve work with suiting specialists to choose appropriate clothing for their needs. Additionally, during these consultations, women are provided with interview preparation skills.
Social Services & Employment Readiness
Workforce Development
Human Resources
