WeCollab LLC

As the founder of WeCollab LLC, Ritika uses curiosity, analytic insight, creativity, and equity to co-create with organizations and individuals.

Our Services

Program Development

Our Program Development services empower nonprofits to create new initiatives that make a lasting impact in their communities. WeCollab LLC can work with your internal teams at any stage of program development with assessment research, team assembly, strategic program planning, case for support creation, successful program launch, and evaluation.

  • Looking to develop or launch a new program? We can support you with:

    • Conducting needs assessment research

    • Defining your problem scope

    • Identifying your organizational expertise

    • Assembling a team

    • Creating program plan and activities

    • Creating a market / community analysis

    • Structuring a grant writing plan

    • Making an operations overview and staffing plan

    • Creating a timeline / milestones calendar

    • Creating a budget

    • Crafting a case for support

    • Creating an organizational story communication plan

    • Launching your program

    • Evaluating your program

  • “Ritika has been instrumental in developing our seniors programs, establishing strategic alliances with new institutional partners and giving us a language for our contribution towards an age-friendly MN. In addition to designing programs and program activities in the areas of gender-based violence intervention and culturally-specific health services, WeCollab has established our artistic healing program, secured many first-time arts-based grants for our future work, and given us confidence and visibility in the arts ecosystem in MN!”

    SEWA-AIFW

Grant Systems Consulting

Our Grant Systems Consulting service enables organizations to optimize their grant-seeking efforts and achieve their development goals with greater efficiency. WeCollab LLC empowers smaller nonprofits in their grant seeking work by providing tailored grant management solutions, creating efficient process roadmaps, and offering custom plug-and-play toolkits.

  • Ready to start your guided growth strategy? We can help you with:

    • Determining need for process support

    • Assessing organizational resources and bandwidth

    • Determining risk, readiness, and resistance to writing competitive grants

    • Creating two-year roadmaps for

      • Grant Prospecting / Cultivating

      • Managing

      • Applying

      • Monitoring Maintenance & Tracking

      • Reporting & Reapplying

    • Researching grant seeking benchmarks and trends

    • Recommending bespoke grant management solutions

    • Capability-building in grant writing techniques and mission / business storytelling

  • “Ritika worked with a small committee from our arts nonprofit, the Weavers Guild of Minnesota. She helped us to demystify the concepts around grant writing & fundraising--specifically showing us how to gather and use testimonials from our stakeholders. She also reinforced what we do well, giving us confidence to build upon our strengths using the strategic frameworks she recommended. Despite our small size and our varying levels of expertise, Ritika made us feel like we were a valued client and that our work was meaningful. It was clear that she wants us to succeed! We look forward to working with her again.”

    — Development Committee, Weavers Guild of Minnesota

Qualitative Research

Our Qualitative Research services provides organizations with comprehensive support, from research design and proposal writing to cultural insights, methodological guidance, and expertise in ethnographic research, enabling you to develop more relevant and socially responsive initiatives.

  • Want someone to take ownership of your research projects? We can help with:

    • Assessing the right qualitative research method for you: Focus Groups (FG) / In-Depth Interviews (IDIs) / Immersion / Co-Creation

    • Responding to basic client Request For Proposals (RFP) through written proposals recommending research design, methodology, timelines and costs

    • Creating Focus Group moderation guides, Interview guides, Immersion Guides

    • Conducting FGs, IDIs, and ethnographic immersions

    • Analyzing large volumes of qualitative research data

    • Generating and communicating cultural insights from research

    • Sharing recommendations with multiple audiences

  • “I worked with Ritika for two years at Kantar, a consumer insights and research firm in India. Having joined the industry a few years prior, I was thrilled to learn the fundamentals of ethnographic research from a PhD in Anthropology. An expert in her field, she trained us, educated the clients and created a handbook on the scope, benefits and processes of ethnographic research, which we still use today. I vividly remember being inspired by her ability to seamlessly blend into any environment, like a fly on the wall, putting the participants at ease and allowing them to open up and tell their stories, despite differences in language, background and social standing.”

    — Aditya Datta (Group Account Director, Kantar Insights – Qualitative Research Division)

Agile Storytelling

Our Agile Storytelling offerings help organizations to craft compelling narratives that connect authentically with stakeholders and drive meaningful change. WeCollab LLC can support you to generate impactful Vision Statements and communications materials by leveraging user and community stories and facilitating collective story harvesting for Mission moments.

  • Ready to be heard? We can support you with:

    • Interviewing and conducting the discovery process

    • Crafting custom requirements gathering guidelines

    • Co-building information architectures with you

    • Convening collective story harvesting circles

    • Breaking organizational story into smaller user stories

    • Guiding agile storytelling design by themes, epics, stories, tasks

    • Crafting mission moments

    • Holding learning circles for ground-up vision statements generation

    • Narrative-building for use on website, grant writing proposals, reports

  • “It is a joy to work with Ritika. She brings so much keen inquiry and compassion, and her thought-provoking questions always help to open up to a deeper layer of the story that communicates your vision from its core. Ritika understands people, cultures and the creative spirit - this brings a well-balanced perspective to any project, grant application or partnership. OCW knows that at any time we can reach out to WeCollab for insights and advice that connects to our cultural producers' work from the roots up. Giving Ritika a seat at your tables will bring a grounded and loving perspective to the stories you are aiming to tell.”


    -Shannon Brunette, Founder, Office of Cultural Work (OCW)

    ”Ritika possesses an incredible linguistic capability that allows her to craft compelling narratives within the often stringent word limits imposed by funding requirements. This talent has a transformative effect on the way you express your thoughts and ideas. What sets Ritika apart are not just her writing skills but her exceptional ability to connect with people. She is patient, attentive, and inquisitive, asking the right questions to unearth the essence of your story, your vision, and the project's unique character.
    Having previously worked with multiple grant writers and having written a few grants myself, I can confidently say that Ritika's approach stands out as a distinctive blend of empathy and expertise.”

    -Bhavana Goparaju, Founder, Jeevi Films

Grant Writing

Our Grant Research and Writing services provide tailored support for individuals and organizations who are navigating the grant-seeking landscape. WeCollab LLC can assist you with grant writing and reporting, and help you secure funding, communicate your impact, and assess project outcomes effectively.

  • You have identified a grant need. Now we can help you with:

    • Connecting your need with the right funder

    • Researching other organizations or individuals with similar missions / projects that have been successfully funded

    • Agile and ethnographic interviewing with key knowledge holders, including populations served

    • Narrativizing your collective impact

    • Writing grant proposals and all aspects of application

    • Submitting applications

    • Aligning successful grants with program staff and funder grant managers

    • Tracking reporting requirements

    • Creating evaluation plans to assess project impact

    • Harvest community testimonials with custom plug-and-play templates

  • “We worked with Ritika to develop grant proposals for a collaborative exhibition on criminal justice. Working with multiple stakeholders to gather diverse viewpoints on the project, Ritika demonstrated outstanding research and writing skills. She developed deep insights for us into the relationships that exist at the crux of the project and its positioning to funders within the contemporary arts / museum landscape. The resulting grant proposals presented a clear, concise and compelling narrative of an unorthodox and complex project, ultimately helping us successfully secure two highly competitive national grants totaling $140,000 within a span of a few months.”

    — Boris Oicherman, PhD, Curator for Creative Collaboration, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota

Performance Practice

We believe that storytelling is a powerful tool that can make complex academic concepts accessible and memorable to the public. We can help transform scholarly content into performance content. Let us help you get creative with presenting your research or scholarly work!

  • Curious about humanizing academic and scientific concepts? We would love to guide you with:

    • Orally interpreting your research findings, writing, and literature

    • Transforming your technical data into compelling narratives

    • Creating stories that captivate and inspire ordinary citizens

    • Communicating your scholarly / scientific / research as performance

    • Creating emotional connections between academics, publics, partners, funders, and arts organizations

Pricing

WeCollab services generally range from $125-$150 per hour.

Contact us for more details about pricing and your project.

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What Partners Say

  • Jeevi Films

    “The value that Ritika brings to the entire process goes beyond the immediate task at hand. It shapes the trajectory of your future endeavors. With Ritika, you're not just getting a writer; you're gaining a partner who unlocks your ideas and empowers you to share with the world. Her collaborative process, especially the deep-dive interview, has a transformative effect on the way you can express your thoughts and ideas.”

    —Bhavana Goparaju (Founder / Producer, Jeevi Films)

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    SEWA-AIFW

    “Ritika has helped secure over $750,000 in competitive grant awards for us over this one year! She has drawn on her experience as an anthropologist, artist, and South Asian to carefully position our work to federal, state, local government and private funders to be the beneficiaries of highly competitive grants.”

    – Raj Chaudhary, (CEO, SEWA-AIFW)

  • The exterior of Weisman Art Museum

    Weisman Art Museum

    “Working with multiple stakeholders to gather diverse viewpoints on our project, Ritika demonstrated outstanding research and writing skills. The resulting grant proposals presented a clear and compelling narrative of an unorthodox and complex project, ultimately helping us successfully secure two competitive national grants totaling $140,000 within a span of a few months.”

    — Boris Oicherman, PhD, Curator for Creative Collaboration, Weisman Art Museum

  • A faceless person holds up a piece of paper with a face drawn on it

    We Are All Criminals

    “With creativity, patience, tenacity, kindness, and the extraordinary ability to authentically represent a diverse mix of partners' voices, Ritika not only made development efforts effective, she made them enjoyable. I'm quite certain I've never said that about grant seeking before. In short, Ritika is magic.”

    – Emily Baxter (ED & Founder, We Are All Criminals)

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    The Cedar Cultural Center

    “Ritika plays a critical leadership role at The Cedar through our racial equity and Development work. From an academic perspective, she understands research around the ineffectiveness of corporate DEI initiatives. She instead encouraged our group to use a framework of belonging, dignity and justice to build a more equitable organization, and she continues to guide us through that transition.”

    — Michelle Woster (Executive Director, The Cedar Cultural Center)

  • A headshot of Shannon Brunette against an abstract paintment

    Office of Cultural Work

    “Ritika understands people, cultures and the creative spirit - this brings a well-balanced perspective to any project, grant application or partnership. We know that at any time we can reach out for insights and advice that connects to our cultural producers' work from the roots up. Giving Ritika a seat at your tables will bring a grounded and loving perspective to the stories you are aiming to tell”

    – Shannon Brunette (Founder, Office of Cultural Work)

  • Two people look over printed reports

    Kantar Insights

    “I still remember being inspired by her ability to seamlessly blend into any environment, like a fly on the wall, putting the participants at ease and allowing them to open up and tell their stories, despite differences in language, background and social standing.”

    — Aditya Datta (Group Account Director, Kantar Insights – Qualitative Research Division)

  • A dancer works with inflatable bags

    Aniccha Arts

    “Ritika Ganguly is an incredibly skilled writer and has a brilliant versatility in being able to persuade grant panelists as well as audiences to show up for artists in whatever ways they are called upon. Her writing and publicity efforts helped bring 600 audiences to the third floor of a mundane parking ramp in Bloomington city, supporting the synergy needed for a beautiful performance experience.”

    — Pramila Vasudevan (Founder, Artistic Director, Aniccha Arts)

  • A man shows off a loom

    Weavers Guild of Minnesota

    “Ritika worked with a small committee from our arts nonprofit, the Weavers Guild of Minnesota. She helped us to demystify the concepts around grant writing & fundraising--specifically showing us how to gather and use testimonials from our stakeholders. She also reinforced what we do well, giving us confidence to build upon our strengths using the strategic frameworks she recommended.”

    — Development Committee, Weavers Guild of Minnesota

WeCollab LLC Values

  • We’re focused on designing processes that involve and engage as many stakeholders as possible that are impacted by your work.

  • We advance the practice and impact of inquiry. We realize that speed and costs are as important to our partners as the depths of insights.

  • We embed and sustain interventions that support a culture of belonging, dignity, and justice for leaders, teams, and organizations to lead change proactively.