How We Work with Clients
Experienced Advisors
Our expertise with both funders and nonprofits helps to ensure that our work together will be rooted in an understanding of power dynamics and practical realities of what is needed for all stakeholder groups.
We’ve worked across a range of issue areas and pride ourselves on our ability to get up to speed quickly, whether on new content or in new communities.
Passionate about Equity
We are committed to helping to build a more equitable world. We bring experience helping organizations embed diversity, equity, and inclusion into both their internal practices and structures and their external funding approaches and programming.
Collaborative and Flexible
We are organized, thorough, and iterative project managers who work flexibly to adapt to changing situations. For our work to be successful, we know the importance of meaningfully engaging a diverse set of stakeholders along the way, and we bring experience with engagement process design, facilitation, and organizational change practices to make that happen. We work alongside staff to dig in, learn, and pull up to make change stick.
Strategic and Actionable
We have significant experience in creating strategic plans, theories of change, systems maps, and learning and evaluation analyses for foundations and other social sector clients. We bring a lens of pragmatism to everything we do and will leverage our strong analytical and listening skills to deliver materials for you that are brief and clear on paper, rooted in principles of adult learning and how organizational change happens – and above all, actionable.
Systems-Oriented
No organization can create change on its own. We bring in new perspectives and help you “see” the broader ecosystem, to help determine the unique role that’s right for you.