About CBS
Community Building Strategies supports organizations working to strengthen democracy, advance social, racial, and economic justice, and build healthy communities.
Our work focuses at the state level where community, faith, and worker organizations work with everyday people to bring about change.
Our Work
Donor & Philanthropic Advising
CBS works with local, regional, and national foundations and private donors to accelerate organizing and support direct investments into the development of grassroots leaders.
Project Development & Support
CBS incubates and manages a wide range of projects including Win the Midwest, the State Power Training & Capacity Hub, and the State Power Accelerator.
Research & Analysis
CBS thought leaders provide in-depth analysis on paths to progressive governance, the means of production of politics, and approaches to state-based power building.
Operations Consulting
CBS pioneers multi-entity approaches to social change and is a national leader in the development of back-end operations for state-level social change ecosystems.
Our Team
Kirk Noden
Senior Strategist
Doran Schrantz
Senior Strategist
Prentiss Haney
Senior Strategist
Laura Flynn
Win the Midwest Consultant
Crystal Zermeno
State Power Accelerator Consultant
Julie Scarsella
Chief Operating Officer
Justine Latiano
Chief Financial Officer
Heather Calhoun
Senior Project Manager
Christine Papa
Legal Counsel
Marissa Klimenko
Director of Operations
Regina Darby
Operations Coordinator
Shawn Hetrick
Accounts Payable
Manager
Shannon
Schobel-Brown
Accounting Coordinator
Courtney O'Brien
Admin Coordinator