Rooted in Story. Built for Scale.
This is where leadership becomes infrastructure, and infrastructure becomes legacy.
Our Vision
Every community keeps its stories. Every woman who survives leaves something lasting behind. And every leader building for the long term has the structure to make it outlive them.
Broken Crayons Still Coloring™ runs a system designed to support leaders building beyond programs into place-based, fundable, sustainable systems.
The Legacy Builders Circle is for those ready to move from vision into structured, scalable impact.
🧠 What This Is
The Legacy Builders Circle is a guided cohort experience designed for leaders building:
- capital projects
- cultural institutions
- dual-entity models
- community-rooted infrastructure
System development, built to last.
🔥 The Shift
You are no longer asking:
“How do I grow this?”
You are building toward:
“How do I structure this to last?”
🧭 What We Build Together
Inside this experience, we focus on:
- System architecture (program → infrastructure)
- Funding alignment (grants, capital, partnerships)
- Narrative positioning (story → fundable language)
- Logic models and evaluation strategy
- Organizational structure (nonprofit, LLC, or hybrid)
🌳 Who This Is For
- Leaders scaling bold, place-based initiatives
- Founders developing cultural or civic infrastructure
- Organizations preparing for major funding or capital investment
- Visionaries building systems that must outlive them
🛠️ What You Receive
- Access to the Broken Crayons Blueprint™
- Structured facilitation and guided sessions
- Strategic mapping tools and templates
- Logic model and evaluation framework development
- Cohort-based accountability and support
⏳ Structure
A 4–6 month cohort experience
Facilitated sessions and structured milestones
Designed for implementation, not just ideation
Why Organizations Trust This Work
- A submission-ready federal funding pipeline exceeding $2 million for a single client
- The Rooted Audit™ compliance method, aligned with 2 CFR 200
- MBE/WBE certified · SAM.gov and Grants.gov registered · AFP Chamberlain Scholar
✨ Begin the Process
The Circle is small by design. We begin with a conversation to see if it’s the right fit. Every engagement starts with that conversation, a one-page outline, and a signed agreement.
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The Work, Embodied.
Khatz Coats™: Wearable Form. Embodied Experience.
A textile-based body of work by Broken Crayons Still Coloring™
BEVERLY BARNHILL PHOTO
Legacy in motion: Beverly Barnhill
Khatz Coats™ is a textile-based wearable art practice that explores identity, healing, and transformation through sculptural garment design.
Each piece is developed through layered materials and intentional construction, allowing the garment to function as both a visual form and an embodied experience. Rooted in story, these works invite reflection, presence, and a deeper relationship between the wearer and the work itself.
Why This Work Exists
Visibility is a form of healing.
This practice centers women of color, survivors and creatives whose stories are often carried but not always seen. Through material, structure, and form, Khatz Coats™ creates space to hold, express, and witness identity.
Where the Work Is Now
Khatz Coats™ is a healing-centered wearable legacy model for women navigating cancer survivorship, trauma, and major life transitions. Each coat is custom-designed through a chakra-awareness assessment, handcrafted by a master artisan, and carries a QR-coded legacy declaration the woman keeps for life. Broken Crayons Still Coloring™ is building the inaugural Sponsor-a-Coat™ cohort with The Victory Center in Toledo, Ohio, a premier cancer survivorship organization, funding one woman’s complete experience at a time. A culminating public exhibition, Khatz Coats™: Wearable Form & Embodied Experience, is planned for January 31, 2027. This work was featured in The Toledo Blade in July 2025.
How the Work Is Experienced
Select pieces incorporate a narrative element, allowing each garment to serve as a vessel for voice, reflection, and continuity over time.
These works are designed not only to be seen, but to be experienced, carried and returned to.
Sponsor-a-Coat™: Access the Experience
Sponsor-a-Coat™ is the access model that lets the community experience this work.
Through sponsorship, participants follow a guided nine-week process that culminates in a completed garment and a recorded narrative moment, turning each coat into a living expression of identity, voice, and presence.
We’re Building What Outlives Us
Wearable legacy, stitched with intention and designed to hold what matters.