Cohort Opportunities

For nonprofit leadership, staff, and volunteers.

Nonprofit organizations are invited to apply to join a Supportive Environments for Effectiveness (SEE) learning cohort, where they will explore the SEE framework with coworkers and peers. Participants will consider the different organizational challenges they face (e.g., high turnover, board disengagement, and volunteer retention), and learn to approach them with a SEE lens. Each organization will select a focus area relevant to their work and try out a small experiment to shift their work environments in an attempt to address that challenge and bring out the best in their people.

About

“The SEE framework has helped us to understand that something as huge as cultural change does not happen at the flip of a switch. It truly is the collective of many small changes that come together to create changes in mindset.” -Amy Guardado, Executive Director of House of Hope

Program Benefits

Participating organizations will receive:

  • 15+ hours of interactive training

  • Grant funding between $2,500 to $5,000 for your nonprofit’s time and resources implementing SEE

  • A collaborative learning environment with other nonprofit leaders

  • Individual, personalized coaching and support

  • Activities and tools to support your SEE learning

Between 2023-2025, reDirect awarded funding to over 60 organizations through our SEE cohort programs.

"The focus on overwhelm and some of the strategies to address that head-on, instead of just accepting that as a 'fact of life' when you're in a nonprofit, was helpful for me, and something that I'm trying to integrate more into our office culture." - Jessica Watson, Executive Director of earthday365

"Some of the exercises in the cohort help you generally stop, and peel back layers on an issue to uncover and re-center the intention of the work...really focusing on 'the why' and the meaning people find in the mission." -Hillary Frey, Executive Director of STL Youth Jobs

Application Requirements

Participating organizations must be registered 501(c)3 public charities. In order to apply, please have at least one person from your organization:

Timelines

  • National (virtual) cohort led by Kayla Paulson (2026 applications have closed)

  • Wisconsin cohort led by Kristy Judd (2026 applications have closed)

  • Greater St.Louis, MO cohort led by Katherine Hollins (2026 applications have closed)

  • National (virtual) cohort led by Katherine Hollins

    • August - December 2026

  • East-Central Iowa cohort led by Kayla Paulson

    • Fall 2026

Key Dates

  • National (virtual) cohort with Katherine Hollins

    • SEE 101: An Introduction to the Framework (Register for either session here.)

      • July 21, 1-2 pm CDT

      • July 29, 11am-12 pm CDT

    • Applications due: August 7, 2026

  • East-Central Iowa cohort with Kayla Paulson - Dates Forthcoming

Our Review Process

After the close of the application period, reDirect may reach out to qualifying applicants to schedule follow-up screening interviews.

More Questions?

  • Check out our FAQs below, or email ambassadors@redirect.org

  • We require at least two participants and welcome up to five.

  • We require participation from organizational leadership. That typically means the Executive Director, CEO, or equivalent. However, if your organization is very large, the head of a large department may be acceptable. That said, you should have the support of leadership in order to be able to allocate staff time, and support the changes (small experiments) decided on during the cohort.


    As an organizational team, participants should bring different perspectives and be in positions to make significant internal changes within the organization. Board members and long-term volunteers are eligible to participate as representatives of your organization.

  • We keep cohorts small enough to give each organization individual support, and large enough to allow collaborative learning. Typically we have about five organizations with 2-5 people representing each.

    Participants often mention how much they appreciate the productive peer learning environment!

  • We require consistent participation at the cohort sessions, but understand that not every meeting date will work for every participant. Please make sure that most of your intended participants can attend all of the sessions and there are no sessions that your organization would miss completely.

    *For our hybrid, regional cohorts, we highly discourage missing any portion of the in-person, day-long retreat.

  • No. While everyone is welcome to attend, only one person per organization is required to attend as a prerequisite for applying.

  • Grant funding is only available to 501c3 public charities.

  • Cohort grant funding is unrestricted and intended to help offset the cost to learn about the SEE framework and implement a change. With a few limitations, grant funds can be used to support the organization achieve its mission.

  • The primary contact is who we will reach out to for:

    • Questions related to your application

    • Scheduling the application screening interview

    • Signing the grant contract

    • Confirming who will be participating

    • Scheduling "challenge check-in" conversations

    • Participating in an optional exit interview after the cohort

FAQs