Exactly the help you wanted
At Pineapple Flags, we like to imagine the good that could happen if you just had a little bit of help. We’re all about stronger communities, less limitations put on non-profits, and helping visionaries achieve the change they know is possible.
Grant Writing
Secure first-time funding for new programming and initiatives or narrow in on multi-year funding focused on growth.
Social Impact Coaching
Learn together with your team how to identify, clarify and highlight your impact.
Arts-Based Facilitation
Using the creative process and personal expression across the arts to explore complex topics.
Research & Evaluation
Understand and document important human experiences, explore new ideas, and evaluate existing initiatives.
Program & Curriculum Development
Build high-impact programming that is collaborative and rooted in the input of those most impacted.
Arts-Based Community Building
Build community through arts activities designed to meet people where they are at in their creative confidence.
Grant Writing
Our grant writing services specialize in securing first-time funding for new ideas, and multi-year funding designed to scale and grow the impact of an initiative. Pineapple Flags will research and write your grant along with supporting documents, making sure the project reflects your goals and your strengths as an organization.
- Foundation funding
- Federal/provincial applications
- Community grants
- Social entrepreneurship funding
Social Impact Coaching
Celebrate your social capital and learn how to how to identify, clarify and highlight your impact. Pineapple Flags will work collaboratively with you to gather and understand your data, develop a theory of change for your organization, create example cases that measure and highlight your impact and make communication action plans for how to share your impact with your community.
- Impact audits
- Case building
- Communication strategies
- Implementation plan(s)
Arts-Based Facilitation
The arts are a great avenue for bringing people together and facilitating difficult or emotional conversations. It’s also great for creating deeper dialogue and healing together. We have experience engaging the full spectrum of the arts, written word, imagery, drama and sound, in our facilitation, and prioritize expression over fine skill-building.
- In person or digital
- Process driven (how)
- Product driven (what)
- Exploratory (emotional)
Research & Evaluation
Pineapple Flags specializes in qualitative research, with additional experience in survey design and analysis. We excel at engaging hard-to-reach populations through strong community development work and in our approach to breaking down power barriers and building authentic trust. We focus on anti-oppressive, social justice and feminist approaches in our work with a strong lens to our ethics process and personal reflexivity. We have particular interest and experience doing research focused on feminist issues.
- Environmental scans
- Needs assessments
- Literature reviews
- Program/process evaluations
Program & Curriculum Development
Pineapple Flags builds award-winning, high-impact programming and learning curriculums that are collaborative and rooted in the needs and input of those most impacted. Our approach supports the incorporation of best (better) practices, creative opportunities and key theories.
- Planning/ objectives
- Delivery
- Content/activities
- Evaluation
Arts-Based Community Building
Pineapple Flags focuses on small & medium scale arts-based community building projects that emphasize folks coming together in their own creative ways to contribute to a larger scale project or impact. When we work with a community, we are aware that the arts can be intimidating, so we look to engage people where they are at in their creative confidence and include roles in planning, facilitating, hosting and promoting. This approach helps us to include more people based on their strengths and harness the creative energy from folks who don’t consider themselves authentic ‘artists.’
- Skill building
- Improving community
- Inspire/mobilize change
- Nurture and heal
Who we work with
We're lucky to be involved in so much good work with these various partners.
" I've worked with Jen for more than a decade and have marvelled at her skill in all phases and aspects of project design, development, delivery and evaluation. She is a diligent researcher, a persuasive grant-writer and a creative thinker, who has successfully brought many project ideas - especially in the areas of human services, advocacy and the arts - to fruition."
Elizabeth Clarke