CSI has supported work with client partners in identifying and building a plan for their needs as co-determined along a timeframe that meets reality of constraints.

Organizations with clarity in scope (what), mandate (for/with whom) and vision/mission (why) can be more nimble in navigating dynamic contexts and shifting currents.

PROJECTS

North End Halifax Community Land Trust (New Roots)

Support with establishing a path for foundation and growth in initial (early) organizational structure and functions.

Lead through fractional role on Strategy & Partnerships.

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TechSploration

Lead Consultants Roots & Rives

Subcontractor support with strategic planning and operational recommendations

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ClimAtlantic

Consultant: Louise Adongo

Support with a new three-year strategic planning that was built with input from the team, the board and advisory committee and broader consultation through feedback campaigns.

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Atlantic Equity and Research Alliance (AEARA)

Consultant: Louise Adongo

Support with needs assessment, community engagement, gap analysis and business plan draft for inclusive Housing.

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Halifax Community Investment Fund (HCIF)

Consultant: Louise Adongo

Supporting the board with strategic planning and operationalizing the strategy.

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Jaza Energy

Consultant: Louise Adongo

Mapping out organizations’ growth strategy in East Africa from Tanzania to Kenya and Uganda, as well as developing a grant app pipeline aligning with the organization’s vision.

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Legacy of the Crossing: Life, Death, and Triumph among the Descendants of the World's Largest Forced Migration

Contributor & Co-Author: Louise Adongo

On the Margins: Racism and Its Impact on the Health of Rural and Remote African Canadian Women (Chapter 10).

A lot has been said about ‘what doesn’t count not getting measured’ and also that ‘ not everything that counts can be measured’.

CSI agrees with both perspectives and with those who say that data is not neutral. We work with an expanded definition of data that includes much more than numbers (and stats). Stories are valuable and when we work with our client partners to engaged in MEL, we do so with dignify(ing) as an anchoring principle, particularly the dignity of those with the least power while most impacted.

PROJECTS

DBDLI - Delmore Buddy Daye Learning Institute

Support with building an enterprise MEL framework within which two specific projects were evaluated.

1. Retrospective evaluation of the Heritage Canada funded Black histories project

2. Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of Together We Rise initiative through NS Status of Women.

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DBDLI - Delmore Buddy Daye Learning Institute

• Evaluation of project to upgrade existing technical resources and developing afrocentric E-learning content for DBDLI's E-learning Platform

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Black Opportunity Fund (BOF) & Black Canadian Fundraisers' Collective (BCFC)

• Evaluation Framework & Evaluation of the BOF/BCFC B3 Capacity Building Program

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Inspiring Communities (2022-2023)

• Framework for a System of evaluation & learning, supported by Nancy Carter as Evaluation Lead.

• Blog on evaluation evolution

• Nancy Carter's reflections on the process of evolving evaluation

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Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering

Co-Author- Louise Adongo

Cultural Competence: Beyond Culturally Sensitive Care for Childbearing Black Women.

CSI works with client partners to streamline, illuminate invisible saboteurs, and opportunities to clarify, simplify and amplify good (effective and trustworthy) policies and guidelines.

Strong policy frameworks (that are not onerous but effective) are valuable for organizations and in collaborative contexts.

Unclear decision-making structures, ambiguous regulatory contexts, and the tightrope in balancing agility with accountability can undermine progress in even the most well-meaning agencies.

PROJECTS:

IWK

EDIRA Strategy - policy analysis

As a subcontract with Ashanti Leadership, undertook review and gap analysis in existing policy framework and made recommendations.

2025

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Government of Nova Scotia

Author: Louise Adongo

A Cultural competence guide for primary health care professionals, Nova Scotia Government

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Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre

Contributor: Louise Adongo

Cultural Competence Guidelines for the Delivery of Primary Health Care in Nova Scotia

PROJECTS:

Clean NS

Climate Change Adaptation Plan workshops with Black and Indigenous community representatives in South Shore

Fall 2026

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Halifax Regional Municipality
Consultant: Louise Adongo

Volunteer Conference workshop

Meeting Changing Community Needs

November 2023

______________________________Halifax Regional Municipality

Consultant: Louise Adongo

Stakeholder engagement on a new strategy focused on immigration

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Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs

Discussion Leader: Louise Adongo

Ethics in the Evening- Immigration: What's Swept Under the Welcome Mat? October 25, 2017.

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Canadian Evaluation Society

Co-Chair: Louise Adongo

CES conference 2019

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SheEO

Event and Fund Developer, Retention Strategist Louise Adongo

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One NS

Co-host: Louise Adongo

We Choose Now Launch Event

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Engage NS

Workshop Facilitator: Louise Adongo

CSI amplifies our work, perspectives, and value proposition through public speaking engagements.

We see it as a responsibility to be representational to those who do not make it into the rooms we get invited into; while holding the balance of not speaking for but rather speaking from (experience) as well as speaking to (the issues) and shining a spotlight on the first voice accounts we have been fortunate to be trusted with.

OPPORTUNITIES

Data Capacity Summit

Opening ‘Fireside’ chat with Diane Connors and Tammy Mudge

“In this inspiring opening panel, we will be hearing from local leaders in the Nova Scotia Community Impact space speak their perspectives on using data to support community initiatives and systems change. Topics of discussion may include research and storytelling, governance, and evaluation - we will ask questions about the role of data in promoting justice and building a supportive and vibrant society.”

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Atlantic Social Impact Exchange

We’re excited to welcome Molly, Kelly, Justin, Louise and Sherif to the Atlantic Social Impact Exchange Summit for an engaging panel on “Exploring Best Practices and Asking, Best Practices for Whom?”

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Victoria Forum

(1) Climate Survivor Panel, moderated by Sean Holman (UVic)

The panelists will explore how lived experience and expertise can change the climate conversation, potentially creating an emerging new constituency with the power to help us secure our future together.

(2) Reimagining Public Consultation (hosted by the Center for Public Dialogue)

SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue presents a hands-on session to reimagine how governments and communities work together. Come ready to challenge assumptions, co-create solutions, and help shape the future of public participation.

Participants in this workshop will hear a series of rapid-fire 2-minute presentations from “provocateurs” who will introduce them to innovative and inspiring methods for consultation. Participants will then work in groups to imagine and design the consultation processes we need right now.

The Forum forges partnerships among diverse actors and stakeholders, where we act as a catalyst to drive meaningful change. Through integrating academic rigour with public discourse, we establish open, inclusive forums for dialogue, bridging divides between various sectors

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Basic Income Earth Network Congress

Presented research on AI and the work-based Social Contract

The Basic Income Earth Network is a network of academics and activists interested in the idea of basic income. It serves as a link between individuals and groups committed to or interested in basic income, and fosters informed discussion on this topic throughout the world.

August 2026

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EvalIndigenous - Afrocentric Evaluation Caucus

Remembering Who we Are Parts 1 & 2 circles.

“[…] international webinar invites participants to reflect on what it means to “remember who we are” through the lens of Afrocentric evaluation, ancestral knowledge, and culturally rooted leadership.

Building on years of collaboration and community-based dialogue, this conversation brings together evaluators, knowledge keepers, and cultural stewards.[…]”

https://evaluationcanada.ca/about/latest-news.html?id=605

February and April 2026

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RBM Summit 2026 Workshop

“Results Based Management at the Intersection of the Community Sector and the Public Sector. Alignment and Friction.” presented by Juniper Glass and Louise Adongo

https://ppx.ca/new-rbm-summit-2026/

April 2026

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EngageFest - Tamarack Institute

Fireside chat - Meg Wheatley and Louise Adongo - Awakening Leaders in the Places we live.

https://events.tamarackcommunity.ca/2024-engagefest-agenda#day-one-fireside-chat

October 2024

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Sustainable Finance World Forum - panel on Impact Measurement and Management

September 2024

https://sfwf.org/2024-agenda

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The Learning Tree - Common Ground gathering

May 2024

Opening Keynote

See: https://medium.com/the-indianapolis-occasional/embracing-community-and-the-wisdom-of-trees-insights-from-louise-adongos-keynote-51b7de14381c

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Banff Systems Summit

May 2024

Opening Panel

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Future of Good Wellbeing Summit March 2024

Opening Panel

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Atlantic Summer Institute (ASI 2023)

August 2023

Closing Keynote

Good governance is foundational for an organization’s sustainable growth and resilience.

Collaborative governance strengthens the relationships among ecosystem partners by clarifying roles & mandates and illuminating what they can do together that is ‘greater than the sum of their parts’.

PROJECTS

Rural Non-profit

EDI Governance PD and

Summer/ Fall 2026

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Cecilia Concerts, PPX

(In-kind) as Governance committee chair

Review and recommend updates to Board Governance Framework and associated documents

Clarified what is policy, what are guidelines, or other documents, and what is operational and out of scope for a policy board.

2026

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Eastern Edge Arts NL

Ubuntu Leadership workshop

2025

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NPower Canada

(in-kind) as Board member of Diversity & Talent committee (now chair)

Provided input and feedback to the Reconciliation Action Plan to Mokwateh team who were impressed with my context expertise.

I explained the source of my knowledge and experiences: my background in EDI, Human Rights and various in leading employee resource groups (Diversity Committees, Diversity Roundtable, Immigrant ERG, ACWPS - Black women ERG as well as community roles).

Giving back through meaningful roles in places where the fullness of our experiences can make a difference is important to CSI.

With a passion for the arts, equity and transforming the systems in service of liberatory (presents and) futures, we bring value and in-kind contributions to board roles and more.

BOARDS

• NPower Canada Board, Chair of Diversity and Talent committee

• PPX Board, Treasurer

• Cecilia Concerts, Chair of Governance Committee

• Tamarack Board member.

Climate ADVOCACY

• Contributor to ‘No Safe Season’, a book by the Climate Disaster Project about the first voice experiences of climate event survivors