Our Equity-Based Pricing Model

As part of our commitments to equity and access, AS Community Consulting uses an equity-based sliding scale model for all clients.  All of our services are offered following a “Pay It Forward” or wealth redistribution sliding scale model.  Following this model, organizations, institutions, and individuals who have access to more resources (including financial, institutional, social, and cultural) pay higher rates, allowing us to offer lower rates to lower-resourced organizations.  

How this looks for our different service offerings:

 

  • For organizational consulting clients we consider your budget, organizational structure, mission, program activities, and other potentially relevant factors.

    The majority of our organizational consulting and research services are offered at project rates that consider both the project value and where the organization falls within our sliding scale model.

    Read more about how we determine rates here.

  • Workshops and downloads are offered at a self-select sliding scale of three levels: Access, Sustainability, and Redistribution.

    Read more here.

  • We develop custom packages with each client based on their goals and access needs.

    Our lowest rates (including full scholarships) are offered to individuals with highest need and less access to institutional, social, and cultural resources and to individuals from groups that are underrepresented or dismissed in evaluation, research, consulting, and business ownership.

    Find more details here.

 

Organizational Consulting and Research

For organizational consulting clients we consider your budget, organizational structure, mission, program activities, and other potentially relevant factors. The majority of our organizational consulting and research services are offered at project rates that consider both the project value and where the organization falls within our sliding scale model.

Some of the factors that impact how we determine our rates include:

  • Organizational budget and history

  • Makeup of organizational leadership and how it compares to the communities it serves and impacts

  • Organization mission, program design, and interactions and relationship with community.

 

Our lowest rates are provided to:

  • Smaller and lower-resourced organizations

  • Grassroots organizations

  • Newly established organizations

  • Organizations with majority leadership who are BIPOC 

  • Organizations led by members of the communities it serves and impacts

  • Organizations whose work is focused on disrupting status-quo

 

Higher rates are asked of:

  • Large and established institutions

  • Organizations who receive substantial funding from large established foundations, legacy funding entities, or government resources

  • Educational institutions such as universities

  • For-profit companies or corporations

  • Organizations with leadership or hierarchical structures that mirror historical institutional inequities and wealth gaps.  For example, organizations with majority white leadership or with discrepancies in pay or status between white and BIPOC staff members.

 

The majority of organizations we work with fall somewhere in between these examples. Typically, with organizational consulting clients we offer a project rate we feel is appropriate, inviting negotiation throughout the contract process. Our sliding scale model values both agency/ self-determination and critical reflection. We invite our clients to share factors that could impact where they fall on our scale as we determine the final project rate.

 

Workshops and Downloads

Workshops and downloads are offered at a self-select sliding scale or provide options for both Access and Redistribution (Pay It Forward) rates.

We recommend you consider both your individual and organizational access to resources when selecting the rate you pay for our content.  

 

Access Rate:

Intended for organizations and individuals with highest need and less access to institutional, social, and cultural resources.

Sustainability Rate:

This is our base rate. Paying at this rate provides full compensation for our work, including the time, labor, and expertise involved in developing and providing this offering.

Redistribution Rate:

Intended for organizations and individuals with more access to resources. Payments at the Redistribution Rate allow us to offer lower rates to those with less access to resources.

 
 

Coaching

We develop custom packages with each client based on their goals and access needs.

Our lowest rates (including full scholarships) are offered to individuals with highest need and less access to institutional, social, and cultural resources and to individuals from groups that are underrepresented or dismissed in evaluation, research, consulting, and business ownership. Some examples of these groups include women+, femmes, trans, and nonbinary people of color, people living with disabilities, those who are not US citizens, and others.