Over the past 10 years, I’ve seen the power of building capacity to meet equity commitments in public health, state government, natural resource management, and community organizing. Most organizations I’ve worked with have good intentions to deliver programs and outcomes that respond to inequities, and repairhadm. Often, limited time, resources, or community buy-in can make even the best-laid plans fall short. Resin & Root can help you see the forest through the trees and connect your intent to actions that ensure a more just world.
Having the right team makes the daunting doable.
In 2021, I supported Washington State legislation addressing lead in school drinking water, making it one of the first states in the country to pass that protection. When I moved back to Minnesota, I knew students in my home state deserved the same right to safer water at school. I brought the policy to state legislators, demonstrated population health impacts, provided testimony, and worked with agencies to ensure Minnesota's proposed policy provided stronger protections, which passed in 2023.
That experience taught me something I carry into every project: good policy doesn’t travel on its own. It moves because someone has the patience to translate it for a variety of audiences, connect data to lived experience, build relationships across agencies and communities, and stay with it long after the first draft, session, and funding package. Most organizations know this, but many don’t have someone whose job it is to see efforts through from assessment through evaluation.
What is Resin & Root?
Our name reflects what I believe. Resin is a binding agent: ensuring community voices are the glue that shapes policy and practice, building sticky, long-lasting collaboration. Roots are where durable solutions grow, from deep engagement to honest and thorough evidence. Together, organizations and community voices bring different skills to achieve a shared goal, dream, purpose.
In practice, Resin & Root Collective, LLC (RRC) is a Minnesota-based consulting practice that offers several kinds of support:
Grant writing and management, from polished requests for proposals to equitable grantmaking frameworks, plus the capacity to manage grant funding and reporting for a variety of funding entities.
Advocacy support, including legislative strategy, testimony, and communications packages.
Research and policy assessment, such as health impact reviews, program/community needs assessments, and data analysis for community priorities.
Communication products that translate complex policy and science for impacted communities and decision-makers.
Professional training and education around environmental justice and equity work.
I offer services on a sliding scale so every client, no matter your budget, can get quality consulting at a price that fits your capacity. I also reserve time each year for pro bono work with frontline community organizations to support the issues that matter most to folks who've had the fewest opportunities to shape their future.
How can RRC can make the difference for your organization?
If you’re trying to accelerate your impact for equity and justice work, the bottleneck is rarely vision. It’s capacity: a fundingproposal due in a couple of weeks, an engagement process no one has time to design through a justice lens, a legislative window that opens before your data is analyzed.
That’s where an experienced partner changes that math. I developed and supported environmental justice frameworks for equitable grantmaking at a state agency, resulting in record numbers of first-time awards to new, low-capacity organizations and units of government committed to partnering with impacted communities. That kind of deliverable requires building processes that foster genuine collaboration with communities that have been kept from the decision-making table.
Working with Resin & Root means you get someone who has sat in multiple seats at the table: drafting and advancing legislation to a variety of stakeholders, administering public funds, assessing health impacts, and organizing with affected communities. I can speak to governing bodies and neighborhood coalitions in the same breath, and help each understand the other.
Let’s build something that holds
Keep up with our blog for stories that share what we are developing and delivering: practical tools, lessons from the field, and honest reflections on what it takes to make equity work durable (not performative or fleeting).
If your organization is ready to turn plans into practical capacity, I’d love to hear what you’re working on. Let’s build something that’s grounded and make it stick.
Together,
Molly
