Services

Impact Framework Development    

We specialize in helping mission-driven entities, including foundations, non-profit organizations, coalitions, and working groups, develop effective plans to assess their impact and keep themselves accountable. How we can help:  

Initial Assessment

  • Review your current MEL framework and identify strengths and gaps in your approach

  • Examine tools (e.g. Theory of Change, Logic Model) you currently use and how they are being applied

    Impact Framework Development

  • Revise, strengthen, or create an MEL plan to help you assess progress in meeting goals

  • Provide guidance on how to consider equity and/or apply a trust-based philanthropy lens in your MEL plan

  • Provide trainings for grantees on how to create a Logic Model or Theory of Change

  • For foundations, consider how to assess impact of non grantmaking activities

Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning

For organizations with an MEL plan in place, we can focus on optimizing those ongoing efforts. We can help shore up your processes:

Routine Monitoring and Reporting

  • Build a reporting structure that communicates your success clearly and effectively

  • Create monitoring and learning tools such as grantee reporting templates that optimizes learning with an equity and/or trust-based philanthropy

  • Compile data and information from grantee reports into summary presentations or reports to Boards of Directors or other stakeholders

 

 

Capacity Building                

We provide support for organizations seeking assistance with a myriad of capacity building program and organizational support. We act as an extension of your team to help you achieve strategic goals. Here are examples of how:

Scenario planning

  • In uncertain times, help mission-driven organizations prepare for uncertainty with more clarity

  • Explore possible scenarios, identify risks, challenges, opportunities, and develop adaptive strategies

  • Address funding volatility, succession planning, shifting community needs to prepare for the future

    Meeting Facilitation

  • Provide skilled facilitation for your meetings, working with you to ensure useful meetings

Strategic Convening

  • Plan and organize convenings that are a catalyst for action.

    Coalition and Partnership Building

  • Help build coalitions, partnerships, and working groups that advance your mission, by nurturing relationship-building

  • Create impact frameworks for these groups

  • Document work of these groups that seek to achieve collective impact