Measure and increase your impact!

We help organizations understand the difference they’re making and position themselves for even greater impact. Engagements often integrate evaluation, learning, strategy, and capacity building services to meet clients’ needs and ensure insights are actionable.

Evaluation & Learning

Evaluation and learning are essential — yet often overlooked — ingredients for social change. We help organizations learn from their work by using qualitative and quantitative methods to understand what’s happening, why it’s happening, and the factors that affect success. Our approach is particularly useful for emerging and “untested” strategies where learning and data collection are intertwined to shape and refine the work.

  • -Evaluating place-based systems change or collective impact initiatives

    -Evaluating the value-add of backbone organizations within collective impact initiatives

    -Conducting philanthropic portfolio and strategy reviews

    -Creating measurement and learning frameworks for grant reporting and strategic decision-making

    -Advising organizational leaders on evaluation and learning approaches

Strategy

It’s hard to reach your destination without plotting a course to get there. Many funders and organizations have good intentions, but haven’t thought through the connection between what they do, why they do it, and the change it can lead to. We help social change organizations design their efforts to lead to real change and ensure that programs and grantees are operating under conditions where they can flourish. We also engage partners and beneficiaries to ensure diverse perspectives inform change strategies so they’re shaped by the best available information and contextually driven.

  • -Conducting landscape and field scans to inform strategies

    -Synthesizing data, learning, and stakeholder feedback for strategic decisions

    -Theory of change development to align activities and outcomes toward strategic priorities

    -Advising organizational leaders on impact strategies

Capacity Building

Impactful organizations aren’t “perfect” — they strategically examine and reflect on their work and apply what they learn to improve. We help organizations build evaluation and learning muscle so they can make data-informed decisions for greater impact. We work with organizations to prioritize learning questions, develop the tools and skills to answer those questions, and apply what they’ve learned.

  • -Developing learning and evaluation plans to build capacity to collect and use data strategically

    -Creating tools to collect, share, and use grantee data to inform decisions

    -Training on theory of change development and performance measurement