What We Build

Who We Serve

Our clients face a common challenge: they have committed partners, policy alignment, and funding – but lack coordination infrastructure to execute. They need someone who understands both the strategic vision and the mechanics of making it real.

We work with:

• • State and county governments implementing major legislation or initiatives where delivery depends on partners outside government
  • Philanthropic program officers needing assurance that partners have credible operating structures and progress monitoring capacity
  • Backbone organizations orchestrating statewide networks to implement policy initiatives and transform systems
  • Multi-sector coalitions and place-based initiatives navigating governance shifts, funding instability, or complex cross-sector alignment
  • Communities of practice moving from shared learning to local action

We partner with organizations committed to anti-bias, anti-racism practices and policies, grounded in a clear understanding of the historical harms embedded in public systems. We center equity as a foundational design principle – helping align policy, governance, and place-based investment to repair harm, restore trust, and fuel community thriving and economic mobility.

Work With Us

The Silver Arrow team is most useful when:

• • An initiative exists, but momentum has stalled
  • Resources are committed, but execution is at risk
  • Players are assembled, but roles and decision rights aren’t clear
  • Coordination is required, but cross-sector alignment is fraying
  • A policy win is secured, but some regions don’t have the capacity to put it into practice
  • State agencies want to align with local partners, but shared data structures don’t exist
  • Stakeholders leave convenings inspired, but unsure how to act
  • Urgency and opportunity converge, and failure is not an option

If any of this sounds familiar, let’s talk.

Ready to move from policy to practice? Bring what’s stuck. We diagnose execution breakdowns, clarify governance and decision-making, and surface the shifts required for your system to deliver at scale and under real conditions.

About

Silver Arrow Strategies was founded on a simple observation: most change initiatives fail not because the strategy is wrong, but because no one builds the coordination infrastructure required to execute it.

Over two decades, we’ve supported coalitions and government agencies in securing over $150 million in competitive grants and building the operational systems to execute them.

As an execution architecture firm and implementation partner, we help statewide coalitions, funder collaboratives, anchor institutions, and government agencies bridge the gap between what’s desired and what gets done – especially when momentum has stalled, roles are unclear, or capacity varies across partners.

When cross-sector and inter-agency coordination works, people experience government differently. Policies don’t stall after passage. Services are easier to navigate. Communities see follow-through instead of fragmentation. Leaders can act on real-time insight rather than guesswork. We’ve seen this in state offices managing first-in-the-nation initiatives, regional coalitions navigating governance transitions, and local partnerships aligning fragmented funding streams.

This work requires both strategic perspective and operational depth. We bring firsthand experience in place-based investing, coalition management, and government execution across diverse geographies. While our work draws on implementation science and systems-change models, our real expertise is working alongside teams to adapt those frameworks into coordination infrastructure – governance, decision rights, and operating rhythms – that allow systems to learn, adapt, and deliver.

We stay with partners through the messy middle of implementation, where execution risk is highest and trust is built through consistency and follow-through. The goal is not just better plans, but durable results – so communities see investments translate into action, and government earns credibility by doing what it says it will do.

We leverage a national network of implementation specialists, policy experts, and community organizers, allowing us to assemble the right team for each context while maintaining a consistent, accountable execution partner at the center.

Teresa Wilke 

Founder & Principal

Teresa is the founder of Silver Arrow Strategies and has spent the last two decades partnering with place-based initiatives, grassroots organizers, non-profit organizations, foundations, state agencies, and national intermediaries to close the gap between strategy and execution.

She brings deep fluency in both grantee and grantmaker perspectives – helping clients secure over $150M in competitive grants, serving as a federal grant reviewer, and shaping innovative state grantmaking. Her prior federal government experience (White House, HUD, EEOC, EPA) required managing complex, high profile projects involving multiple federal agencies, U.S. Secret Service and military liaisons.

Teresa grew up in rural Missouri and built her early career in Washington D.C. and St. Louis. For the last ten years she has supported coalitions nationwide — spanning urban centers, mid-sized towns, and rural communities — working to transform systems that drive community health, cradle-to-career education, and economic mobility.

Stacy Dohogne Lane

Director of Partnerships & Impact

Stacy translates strategy into action for K-12 districts and community organizations, drawing on 10+ years of experience in cross-sector collaboration, grant writing and administration, curriculum design, and program scaling. She helps clients navigate complex stakeholder landscapes and build coalition capacity that lasts beyond individual funding cycles.

Client Impact