Services

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

Impact Framework Development    

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 lens

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

 

 

Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning

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