We design and produce events and retreats that bring people (whether a group of ten or 1,000) together with intention—centering the clients’ goals and meaningful exchange with their teams or stakeholders.

These gatherings are thoughtfully curated to support connection, learning, and lasting impact in your field and communities.

Offerings Include:

• Convenings for artists, leaders, and community-focused organizations

• Cross-sector dialogues and cultural gatherings

• Funders, grantees, and stakeholder convenings

• Program curation, speaker/presenter recruitment, and agenda design

• Facilitation, moderation, and experience design

Individuals and organizations alike need space to pause, reflect, and make decisions that are both values-aligned and actionable.

For Organizations, we offer:

• Organizational & Strategic Planning

• Team & Culture Development

• Equity & Justice Audits

For Individuals, we offer:

• Leadership and career retreats

• Creative and professional realignment

• Decision-making and long-term visioning

Every process is custom-designed, participatory, and grounded in care, clarity, and support to navigate what can often feel like a heavy lift.

We partner with nonprofit, education, arts and culture, and social impact organizations to strengthen their voice, systems, and leadership in moments that matter. Our work is active, collaborative, and grounded in creative practice—aligning strategy, storytelling, and infrastructure so organizations can act with clarity, confidence, and purpose.

• Strategic Planning & Issue-Based Workshops

  We facilitate strategic planning processes and issue-based workshops that center inclusion and staff voice. Using creative, participatory methods, we help teams surface insights, navigate complexity, and build shared ownership around priorities, change, and decision-making.

• Communications & Community Engagement

  We design and launch narrative-driven campaigns that harness compelling stories and social media to mobilize communities, build momentum, and drive real-world action.

• Social Media Management

  We create, edit, and manage content and ads that establish a strong, consistent brand presence and keep your organization visible, relevant, and engaging.

• Digital Transformation

  We lead complex organizational upgrades end to end—deploying CRMs, migrating services, and rebuilding websites and messaging so your digital systems fully support your mission.

• Fractional & Interim Leadership

  We step in as trusted executive partners during times of transition, providing steady leadership, clear direction, and strategic decision-making when your organization needs it most.

• Legislative Campaign Strategy: Support for planning and executing legislative campaigns, including coalition building and community engagement.

• Narrative & Communications Strategy: Developing powerful, community-centered narratives to support advocacy goals.

• Policy & Curriculum Design: Creating values-aligned programs for civic engagement and policy impact.

Rivera Creative Collective partners with foundations and philanthropic institutions to serve on panels and/or co-design and facilitate participatory grantmaking models that align values, strategy, and accountability. This work supports funders in sharing decision-making power with the community while maintaining clarity, rigor, and fiduciary responsibility.

Engagements may include

• Participatory grantmaking strategy and model design

• Community advisor recruitment and facilitation

• Equity- and power-informed process design

• Learning, reflection, and iterative improvement

Our approach helps funders move confidently towards participatory practices that are sustainable, transparent, and integrated into broader grantmaking strategies.

Culture, Strategy, and Lived Experience in Conversation

Rivera Creative Collective offers public speaking engagements that blend storytelling, cultural analysis, and strategic insight (with an infusion of humor, care, and joy). From keynote addresses to panel participation and moderated conversations, this work supports audiences in thinking more critically about culture, power, and change—and what action looks like in practice.

Common focus areas include:

• Arts and cultural leadership

• Organizational culture and systems change

• Advocacy and narrative strategy

• Education and learning ecosystems

• Anti-racism and equity in practice

• Community engagement and belonging

Each engagement is thoughtfully prepared, context-specific, and grounded in real-world experience.