Focused on creating equitable and resilient communities by bridging the gap between local governments and the residents they serve.
Focus
AREAS
AUTHENTIC COLLABORATION AND ENGAGEMENT
Helping local governments work alongside residents to solve the most pressing challenges facing communities.
INCLUSIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
Analyzing data, policies, and practices and community-driven insights into defining, prioritizing, and solving problems.
PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION AND STORYTELLING
Defining what success looks like from both the community and government lens, holding all stakeholders accountable to progress, and sharing the wins and lessons learned by sharing stories.
EQUITABLE IMPLEMENTATION
Ensuring equitable distribution of resources and support in implementing strategies.
Much of Indigo Collaborative’s work is done in partnership with
Center for Community Progress and Vulnerable Communities Initiative.
SELECTED EXAMPLES OF WORK
BIO
Kim Graziani is the President of Indigo Collaborative LLC, a national consulting firm dedicated to building trust and sharing power between local government and residents to equitably revitalize communities.
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Much of her consulting portfolio is through the Center for Community Progress, a national nonprofit organization that works primarily with local governments, nonprofit organizations, and resident leaders to transform vacant and abandoned properties into community assets such as quality affordable housing. Kim helped build and lead the National Technical Assistance Program, which has served over 300 communities in 35 states, and now serves as Senior Advisor. She is considered one of the leading national experts in land banks – an equitable, effective, and efficient tool utilized by hundreds of communities across the country to acquire properties that are causing the most harm and transfer to responsible ownership according to local community goals.
 
Prior to her national work, Kim served as the Director of Neighborhood Initiatives to the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was instrumental in developing and implementing innovative policies and strategies for the equitable reuse of vacant and abandoned properties that prioritized resident engagement, neighborhood preservation, and community wealth-building. She created several policies and programs recognized by the National League of Cities and the United States Conference of Mayors focused on participatory budgeting and how to engage residents in the allocation of federal funds for local uses such as affordable housing, rental assistance, and the creative reuse of vacant land.
 
Kim also has expertise in affordable housing and community organizing through her work with multiple community development corporations, private foundations, and social service agencies in Atlanta, New York City, and Pittsburgh. She is a certified Housing Development Finance Professional and received her master's degrees in Public Administration and Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh where she also served as part-time faculty. She currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama. 
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