jumpslide

strategies for social change

Jumpslide Strategies is a New Orleans-based, woman-led consulting firm specializing in cultural research and strategies. Our clients are artists & cultural leaders, cultural institutions, advocacy organizations, corporations, and foundations. The work we do for these important agents of change includes:

  1. Scan: Conduct audience & community research, cultural analysis & audits, field scans, story collection, and learning-focused evaluation. 

  2. Strategy: Develop evidence-based cultural strategies and conduct collaborative project & campaign design. 

  3. Support: Build skills and provide support to individual leaders, institutions, and fields of practice. 

Our history of impact includes having:

  • Produced inspiring events ranging from field-launching conferences to sold-out stadium benefit concerts, 

  • Worked with thousands of artists, cultural leaders, and cultural institutions on social justice issues,

  • Created earned income strategies, services and product-lines that have raised tens of millions of dollars for social change, 

  • Founded multiple innovative & highly-lauded nonprofits,

  • Developed rigorous, new research and evaluation techniques, and

  • Consistently assembled and supported high-performing teams made up primarily of women and people of color to accomplish what others have said was impossible.

Jon co-facilitating the Cultural Heritage and Social Change Summit at the Southern University at New Orleans, November 2016. Photo: Haitham Eid.

Jon co-facilitating the Cultural Heritage and Social Change Summit at the Southern University at New Orleans, November 2016. Photo: Haitham Eid.