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PDI offers customized services to organizations that want to achieve new levels of sophistication and effectiveness, as well as communities that want to find creative solutions to difficult challenges.
We offer the following types of services:
- Custom training and development to organizations and communities. We can provide half-day to multi-day training sessions, facilitate retreats, and design online courses that meet your needs.
- Consulting and advising in organizational change and development, urban planning, economic development and community development.
- Research, including qualitative and quantitative research, assessments, and evaluations.
We can provide all of the above services in any of the following areas:
| Economic Development and Community Planning |
Leadership and Management |
Strategic Communications |
| Visioning and public participation |
Leadership and organizational development |
Knowledge management and information architecture |
| Economic development |
Community building |
Marketing and public relations |
| Fundraising |
Project management |
Alliance building and influence management |
| Community-based organizations |
Organizational, program and project planning |
Media relations and journalism |
| Place marketing and branding |
Community-university partnerships |
Website development |
PDI's approach to custom programs is client-centered and collaborative. We start by understanding your interests and concerns. We work with you to develop programming that suits your budget, values, timing and ability to implement. We work to combine our technical expertise with your insights into your organization or community to develop workable and cost-effective strategies. We also work to build your capacity to effectively employ the solutions we generate.
Sample projects include:
- Arts-based economic and community development planning, Cranford, NJ. Client: Cranford Downtown Management Corporation and Jersey Central Arts Studios
- Cultural heritage tourism planning, Trenton, NJ. Client: Trenton Downtown Association
- Cultural competency training, Paterson, NJ. Client: New Jersey Department of Community Affairs/ Wachovia Bank.
- LeadershipMatters, New Jersey statewide. Client: Fund for an Open Society.
- Technical assistance in online education, New Brunswick, NJ. Clients: Center for Government Services and National Transit Institute.
If you are concerned about whether a university-based consulting organization can provide the same quality and timeliness of services as a private sector firm, please consider this:
The leaders and instructors of PDI are experienced practioners who are consultants, have hired consultants, or both. We provide the same level of service, the same customer care, that we would expect for ourselves.
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