Jimmy Gibbs

Jimmy Gibbs

Jimmy Gibbs is a community engagement consultant with proven expertise in Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and serving as a Co-Principal Investigator/Consultant.

Working collaboratively with…

  • Centers for AIDS Research Member Institutions
  • University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • University of Alabama, Birmingham
  • Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination (HANC)
  • LGBTQ Center of Durham
  • University of California San Diego
  • Southern AIDS Coalition
  • Wake Forest University School of Divinity
  • National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC)
  • HIV Implementation Science to Optimize Research Impact (HISTORI)
  • NC AIDS Action Network (NCAAN)
  • Southern Conference, United Church of Christ
  • Affordable Community Residence Association (ACRA)
  • Duke Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

Developing and Implementing Strategies for Success!

We are....

Community Engagement Strategists

Church and Business Consultants

Healthcare Consultants

Consulting

  • Align your purpose, strategy, mission, and vision
  • Financial health
  • Community strategy
  • Short-term and long-term planning
  • Leadership development

Community Engagement

  • Coaching
  • Designing public engagement initiatives to transform communities
  • Developing community engagement guidance documents
  • How to mobilize volunteers
  • Developing relationships with key stakeholders
  • Addressing gaps and challenges
  • Working collaboratively to meet goals and objectives

Faith Organization Consulting

Some specific challenges our consultants help congregations deal with include:

  • Conflicts involving pastoral leadership and lay leadership
  • Meeting in the middle to look at both sides of a situation and finding commonalities
  • Addressing issues surrounding various worship services
  • Assessing HR policies and procedures relating to staffing
  • Training search committees and facilitating search processes 
  • Team building for staff and congregants
  • Forward thinking
  • Responding to changes in membership in person and online

Helping to produce thriving communities and sustainable partnerships through meaningful community engagement

Meaningful Community Engagement includes…

  • Learning from experience
  • Engagement Activities
  • Engagement Plan
  • Collaborative Partners
  • Sustained Commitment to Community
  • Provide resources and action plans for implementation.

Jimmy Gibbs

Jimmy Gibbs at the Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ 2023 Conference where he was elected to the National UCC Board.

Jimmy Gibbs

Jimmy Gibbs with the Rev. Dr. Yvonne V. Delk, the first woman to be ordained in the United Church of Christ in 1974.

Jimmy Gibbs and Alphonso Mills

Jimmy Gibbs with queer celebrity Alphonso Mills at an HIV Prevention Summit in Chicago in 2022.