Training Resources Group, Inc.

Connecting People & Performance

Clients

USAID

Since the 1980s, TRG has provided high quality facilitation, organizational development, management consulting, stakeholder facilitation, capacity building and training services for USAID bureaus, offices, missions and technical projects. TRG has served as a core implementing partner under multiple centrally-funded projects, mission-managed IQC task orders, and bilateral projects. In recent years, our offerings have grown to include provision of communications and knowledge management services and oversight of sub-contractors providing this expertise. Our services improve the performance of USAID staff; support USAID’s efforts to meet its targets through collaboration, learning, and adapting; and strengthen the capacity of host country organizations to solve their own development challenges – a key tenet of the Journey to Self-Reliance.

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Projects

As a Prime

Communications, Evidence, and Learning (CEL)

CEL aims to create, expand, disseminate, and support the application of evidence-based knowledge in land tenure, property rights, and resource governance as well as urban development, urban-based programming, sustainable cities, and local sustainability.

Primary Client: Office of Land and Urban

Partners: ECODIT, ForumOne, Landesa, NORC at University of Chicago, Urban Institute

Period of Performance: 2018-2023

Services: communications, knowledge management, training, research

Buy-ins: Office of Local Sustainability

Core TRG Team: Aleisha Khan, Chief of Party | Omar Khan, Deputy Chief of Party | Colleen Brady, Communications and Knowledge Management & Design Manager | Amrit Bhandari, Web Content Manager | Desmond Austin-Miller, Community Learning Project Associate | Nadia Ilunga, Communications Project Associate | Emily LoPiccolo, Project Associate

Education Performance Improvement, Communications, and Knowledge (EPIC)

EPIC provides organizational effectiveness, professional development, knowledge management and communications support that aims to assist E3/ED in achieving the transformational shift it needs to better respond to the global call for quality, inclusive education programs that achieve greater scale and impact.

Primary Client: Office of Education

Partners: Forum One, Making Cents International, Social Solutions International

Period of Performance: 2015-2020

Services: facilitation, coaching, strategic planning, people skills training, technical training, communications, knowledge management

Buy-ins: Haiti Mission, Africa Bureau, Office of Land, Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, Office of Trade and Regulatory Reform

Associated Websites: EducationLinks: A resource for all education practitioners to learn and share knowledge to create and implement successful, effective education and skills development programs. MarketLinks: A platform for sharing of best practices in inclusive market development.

Core TRG Team: Tom Lent, Project Director | Sharon Williams, Deputy Project Director | Steve Yank, Organizational Effectiveness Portfolio Manager | Daryn Cambridge, Professional Development Portfolio Manager | Lisa Barton, Knowledge Management and Communications Portfolio Manager | Barbra Bearden, Communications Specialist | Ana Rogers, Senior Project Manager | Gina Fu, Project Manager | Achsah Callahan, Digital Communications Manager | Charlin Caster, Marketlinks Communications and Knowledge Management Specialist | Shira Babow, Project Associate | Dawit Blackwell, Project Associate

Training, Facilitation, and Digital Services (TFDS)

TRG provides facilitation, training, and digital services as required by OTI programs and personnel in DC and the field. These services include workshop/meeting design and facilitation, training design, coaching services, digital media production, integrated communication strategies and tools, and project management and advisory support.

Client: Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI)

Partners: Bixal, Integrity Global, Next Practices, LLC, and QED Group

Period of Performance: 2019-2024

Services: communications, knowledge management, learning technology, facilitation, strategic planning, coaching, training

Core TRG Team: Rachael Wilcox, Task Order Manager | Nancy Reyes, Jr. Administrative Support | Wondy Belete, Mid-level Finance and Budget Analyst | Laura Guyer, Sr. Strategic Management Specialist | Aurora Deuss, Mid-level Strategic Management Specialist | Roberta Talmage, Sr. Management and Operations Specialist | Richard Glass, Mid-level Management and Operations Specialist | Patricia Garcia, Sr. Training Specialist | Meredith Ferris, Mid-level Training Specialist | Graeme Frelick, Sr. Facilitator | Helen Petrozzola, Mid-level Facilitator | Kirby Crider, Mid-level Information Designer

Sharing Energy and Environment Knowledge (SEEK)

SEEK supports four offices within E3 to enhance development impact through training, communications, knowledge management, and facilitation/organizational development.

Client: Offices of: Energy and Infrastructure, Forestry and Biodiversity, Global Climate Change, Water

Partners: Environmental Incentives, Forum One

Period of Performance: 2018-2023

Services: technical training, communications, knowledge management, facilitation, organizational development

Core TRG Team: Tom Ross, Chief of Party | Laurie Segel-Moss, Deputy Chief of Party | Katie McElhinny, Adult Education/Training Specialist | Shereen Abdelaaty, Communications Specialist | Cory Ragsdale, Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist | Kaitlin Conway, Training Specialist | Isabela Barriga, Communications Project Associate | Alaina Walton, Operations Project Associate

As a Sub

Architecture & Engineering (A&E) Services IDIQ

institutional capacity building

Climate Integration Support Facility (CISF) BPA

capacity building, communications, knowledge management

DRC Integrated Health Project (IHP)

institutional capacity building

Energy II IDIQ

capacity building, training, institutional development

Feed the Future: Building Capacity for African Agricultural Transformation (Africa LEAD II)

training

Feed the Future: Knowledge, Data, Learning, and Training (KDLT)

training, organizational development

IHSIP IDIQ/Achieving Sustainability Through Local Health Systems (ASLHS) Task Order

organizational capacity building, stakeholder engagement

Management Excellence for Operations (MEO) IDIQ

training, strategic planning

Monitoring & Evaluation Capacities (MECap)

training, event support

Office of Inspector General (OIG) Learning & Development Services (LDS)

training, coaching, retreat facilitation

REPLACE IQC/Biodiversity Results and Integrated Development Gains Enhanced (BRIDGE) Task Order

co-creation/co-design, communications, knowledge management, event facilitation, technical training

Targeting Natural Resources Corruption (TNRC)

technical training, learning technology

TASC 4 IDIQ/Senegal Government Technical Assistance Project (GoTAP)

institutional capacity building

WADI IDIQ/Water for Africa through Leadership and Institutional Support (WALIS)

facilitation, training, capacity building, institutional strengthening

Meet the Team

Since its founding in 1973, TRG has grown steadily in size and in our professional capabilities. As a result of the working environment we have created, the vast majority of the consultants who have joined TRG in its thirty year history are working at TRG today.

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Our Work

TRG is a versatile firm with proven ability to work domestically and internationally and in both the public and private sectors. The goal of our work is to support our clients' efforts to improve performance and achieve business results.

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