Partnering with Communities and System Leaders to Build What’s Possible

We support community-driven solutions and leaders ready to break down barriers, take bold action, and work together to create lasting change for children, families, and neighborhoods.

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Your Partner in Systems Transformation

Our Vision

A world where communities are recognized and resourced as those best situated to serve their neighbors.

Our Mission

We activate the expertise and capacity within each local community for transformative solutions to the needs they identify and toward the equitable future each deserves.

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Our Services

Our Range of Services

SPEAR

(Shifting Power for Equity and Results)

A capacity-building program that brings together system and community leaders...

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Aligned and Advanced Individual Coaching

1:1 and team coaching for leaders in systems and community organizations...

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Results Count Leadership Programs

Customized leadership development for cross-sector teams...

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System Transformation Technical Assistance

Technical assistance and consulting for state and local agencies...

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Non-Profit Support Services

Strategic Planning, Fund Development, Staff Training and Support Program Development and Evaluation

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Our Values

Core Values

Every project is unique, but our values is guided by four core commitments:


  1. Equity-Centered Action - We acknowledge the harm caused by systems, especially to marginalized communities. We commit to naming inequities, disrupting status-quo power dynamics, and supporting action that repairs and transforms.
  2. Community-Led Solutions - We believe the people closest to the issues are best positioned to solve them. We support communities to define what success looks like and lead the way in achieving it—especially through SPEAR’s emphasis on authentic partnership and power-sharing.
  3. Builder’s Mindset - We believe transformation is possible. With hope and humility, we partner with stakeholders to imagine new possibilities and build toward a future defined by dignity, inclusion, and outcomes that reflect shared aspirations.
  4. Results With Integrity - We help leaders and teams use the Results Count framework to stay grounded in data, equity, and measurable progress. We believe results should reflect what communities say they need—not just what systems can measure.
  5. Coaching That Sustains Change - Through Aligned and Advanced Coaching, we support leaders to lead with clarity and courage. Our coaching deepens self-awareness, strengthens alignment between roles and values, and equips changemakers to act with confidence and care.

Your Partner in Systems Transformation

Tools and Framework Used in SPEAR

The Roots & Routes Asset Mapping Tool is a participatory framework that helps communities surface their own strengths, histories, and visions for the future. The tool guides users through a process of identifying community boundaries, mapping historical context and lived experiences, gathering both strength-based and deficit-based data, and building a collective asset map. This approach empowers residents to lead the change they wish to see by shifting the narrative from what's broken to what's possible—and supports systems leaders in partnering with communities to align investments, reduce harmful surveillance, and elevate local solutions.

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Collaborating with Opponents is a practical toolkit designed to help leaders and changemakers navigate conflict and turn opposition into progress. Drawing from real-world experience and frameworks like “Name It, Frame It, Game It,” the toolkit offers strategies, reflection tools, and step-by-step guidance for working across deep divides—whether with internal skeptics, system partners, or community critics. It empowers users to reframe resistance as a valuable signal, build alignment around shared goals, and co-create solutions that lead to more sustainable and equitable outcomes.

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Phone Number

(315) 530-8210

Physical Address

220 DeSilva Street, Minoa, NY 13116

Email Address

jczarniak@brightpathstrategies.com

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