Millennia works with a wide variety of community and economic development organizations, helping them build capacity and supporting their ability to strengthen and revitalize communities. Our consultants provide a full range of services including: research; policy analysis and legislative agenda setting; public education and training; the provision of technical, financial, and legal assistance; counseling and coaching; coalition building and community organizing; and direct human and social services provision.
Our clients include advocates for: housing and homelessness; health care; childcare; legal, human, and civil rights; and social justice as well as venture capitalists, development banks, and trade organizations. We also provide services to not-for-profits whose work focuses on human services provision; education, training and workforce development; environmental protection and remediation; small business development; income generation and family and community asset building; communications and transportation; poverty and racism; public safety; and the needs of immigrant and refugee communities.
Read these client stories for examples of our work in community and economic development consulting:
Evaluating an initiative that helps low-wage workers step up
Launching a regional venture capital association
Community & Economic Development clients we have worked with:
- American Law Institute-American Bar Association
- Center for Applied Linguistics
- Center for Book Culture
- Center for Economic Progress
- Center for Neighborhood Technology
- Central Cities Housing Ventures, MN
- Central Minnesota Housing Partnership
- Chicago Department of Environment
- Chicago Jobs Council
- Chicago Rehab Network
- Chinese American Service League
- Chinese Mutual Aid Association
- Claretian Associates
- Clean Sites, Inc.
- Community Neighborhood Housing Service, MN
- Corporation for Supportive Housing, MN
- Delta Institute
- Habitat for Humanity, Twin Cities and Rochester Affiliates, MN
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
- Home Ownership Center: Minnesota Statewide Network of Affordable Housing Services
- Illinois Coalition for Equal Justice
- Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
- Illinois Works for the Future
- Interfaith Housing Development Corp.
- Jane Addams Resource Center
- Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
- Jewish Vocational Services
- Korean American Community Services
- Latinos Progresando
- Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois
- Local Initiatives Support Corporation
- Museum of Science & Industry
- Music Theatre Workshop
- Naperville Public Library
- National Center on Poverty Law
- Neighborhood Development Alliance, MN
- Prairie State Legal Service
- Sargent Shriver Center for Poverty Law
- Selby Area Community Development Corporation, St. Paul, MN
- Southside Arts & Humanities Network
- Statewide Housing Action Coalition
- Suburban Job Link Corp.
- The Garden Project
- Xilin Asian Community Center
