Echo Maker is an Indigenous Women-owned business providing professionals with the skills and resources they need to fulfill their vision.
We offer contracting services related to Tribal/Indigenous relations, community engagement, strategy planning, board development, evaluation, policy analysis, organizational/leadership, facilitation, project management, grant writing, data sovereignty, action-oriented research and data analysis through an Indigenous worldview and epistimological lens.
Small and large group trainings available on research, evaluation, relationship building, cross-cultural organizational development/management, lateral goodness, board development, Tribal relations, and community engagement.
Trainings designed specifically for Indigenous organizations include: rematriating Indigenous management, Indigenous research methods, implementing data sovereignty policies with external partners, developing Indigenous research review boards, rebuilding with the next seven generations.
Sample projects include community-driven research across eleven Tribal Nations, negotiating collaborative solutions representing competing interests, leadership capacity analysis, system gaps analyses with actionable recommendations, organizational systems change, scans for systems-to-ecosystems opportunities, patient/client/staff engagement/satisfaction analyses, program evaluation for Indigenous non-profit, community engagement between municipal and Indigenous organizations, group facilitation, Indigenous organizational training.
Services Menu
Tribal Relations
Board development
Organizational/leadership analysis
Relational management practices
Community engagement
Facilitation
Project management
Grant writing
Evaluation
Program review and evaluation
Policy analysis/development
Action-oriented research
Accessibility analyses
Feasibility studies
Economic research and analysis
Data and analytics
Data sovereignty
Indigenous economic design frameworks
Corporate/nonprofit/governmental reconciliation action plans
Strategy planning
Indigenous economic governance and business training
Market research
Patient/client/staff engagement/satisfaction analyses
Facilitate partnership agreements
Indigenous design sessions for nations, businesses, corporations, and municipalities
Economic impact assessments
Ripple Effect Mapping
Economic tool development – economic policy and framework development
Economic and business evaluation and monitoring reporting