Orange Cap Consultation centers harm reduction in public administration— and teaches you how, too.

Orange Cap Consultation is a boutique consulting firm specializing in trauma-informed meeting facilitation, nonprofit technical assistance, and equitable community engagement.

We help institutions reduce the harm they cause to marginalized communities and co-create solutions that build intentional relationships. We work with nonprofit, government, philanthropic, and corporate programs that seek to build community.

Orange Cap Offerings

Keynotes & Workshops

Utilizing our lived experience as people affected by poverty and the war on drugs, to help shape public narratives around otherness.

Meeting Facilitation

Trauma-informed meeting and public working group facilitation that seek community-driven outcomes.

Community engagement & analysis

Helping programs connect with the communities they serve through equitable and authentic engagement design.

Equity Coaching

There are gaps in each and every one of our spheres of knowledge— and that’s ok! The search for answers to tough questions about race, class, and disparities are explored and unpacked in a safe environment.

Orange Cap celebrates the human experience. We apply the following principles in our work:

Healing-Centered Harm Reduction

Harm Reduction is a term first used in the context of drug use, to describe the practice of keeping people alive through mutual aid and resource-sharing. Orange Cap embodies healing-centered harm reductive practices, as outlined by Reframe Health & Justice, and embeds them across domains of social justice.

Targeted Universalism

Targeted Universalism is an evolving approach to social sector work, emphasizing universal goals with targeted approaches to accomplishing those goals. Using the approaches of targeted universalism, Orange Cap helps organizations create equitable, results-driven programming and internal tools.

Anti-Racism

DEI work is about more than learning terms and avoiding microaggressions— it’s a continual practice of engaging in self-reflection and requires discomfort.

Keynote & Workshop topics

For Service Providers & Community-based organizations:

  • Accessing Institutional Funding: grant writing &
    fundraising strategy

  • Overcoming barriers to success in higher education

  • Nonprofit Program Design

  • Utilizing Lived Experience for positive change

For Institutional Funders and administrators:

  • Reduce the harm in your Community Engagement strategy

  • Building Community Compensation Models

  • Understanding Harm Reduction & Intersectional Social Justice

Facilitation & Engagement Design

  • Facilitation of public working groups, such as:

    • WA State Department of Commerce Permanent Supportive Housing Workgroup. 2023.

    • King County Office of the Executive, Public Safety Advisory Committee. 2021-2022.

    • Racial Equity in 9-1-1 Communications, King County Sheriff’s Office, Valley Com 9-1-1,” BDS Planning & Urban Design. 2021.

  • Community Engagement Design & Analysis, including:

    • City of Burien, Equitable Community Engagement Training (Co-facilitator). BDS Planning & Urban Design. 2022.

    • City of Burien, WA, Community Connector Program Design, Project Manager & Engagement Design. 2022.

    • City of Lynnwood, WA, Public Safety & Equity Survey & Report, Project Manager & Engagement Design, BDS Plannign & Urban Design. 2021-2022

    • WA Department of Commerce, Homeless Service Providers Workforce Needs Study, BDS Planning & Urban Design. 2022-2023.

    • WA Department of Commerce, Homeless Service Providers Workforce Needs Study, BDS Planning & Urban Design. 2022-2023.