SERVICES
Measure and make sense of your journey toward impact.
Are you always struggling to support your stories with data? Or, conversely, digging through a mountain of unhelpful data points? Data can inform your decision-making if you have a clear plan for data collection and the tools you need for implementation. I help clients develop right-sized, actionable approaches to capture results across their portfolios. In doing so, I help operationalize your measurement framework.
How can I help you? Starting from your measurement framework, I help design an approach for capturing data. I document key processes or methods, and identify the tools needed. I then help design or adapt data collection tools (e.g, grantee reporting forms, program surveys, etc.), and advise on their implementation. I can also tabulate, analyze, visualize, present, and interpret data once you have it - or advise your team on doing so.
What you get
MEL approach document
Recommendations and support for analyzing data
Suite of data collection tools
Reports presenting results to key stakeholders
Design your strategy with clear intended impact.
Challenges and contexts shift. Strategy should evolve alongside the complex social issues you seek to improve. Whether you’re crafting a new strategy, making a meaningful pivot, or simply refining an existing approach, effective strategy design begins with a clear vision of measurable impact. I help you clarify the impact you seek and create logical linkages to your activities, so that you can clearly articulate your purpose and align your actions accordingly. This will provide the foundation for a meaningful approach to measurement.
How can I help you? I assess your current strategy and synthesize internal and external insights. The questions I pose will clarify the uniqueness of your approach, while centering the experiences of the communities you serve. I help you articulate the measurable pathways of change you seek in a customized Theory of Change, and create compelling visuals to describe your strategic shifts.
What you get
Report from external scans and/or internal interviews
Supporting visuals + frameworks for your strategic shift
A customized theory of Change
Recommendations from current approach assessment
Narratives summarizing strategic refinement
Align your grant/program decisions with your vision for impact.
Challenges and contexts shift. Your Theory of Change visually connects your mission-delivery activities, whether grantmaking and/or programmatic, to measurable impact. But what is the best way to bring your unique approach to life? I help clients systematically assess potential directions and make decisions that orient your actions toward your intended impact, helping you build a portfolio that best operationalizes your strategic framework with and for the communities you serve.
How can I help you? I synthesize data or insights you have from stakeholders, key communities, and/or previous experiences, to find signals informing future possibilities. I map existing gaps and synergies in your approach, and weigh the potential directions you can take and their implications. The tools and rubrics we build support decision-making at grant/program and portfolio-wide levels.
What you get
Summary report of recommendations from available data
Supporting visuals + frameworks for your strategic shift
Customized tools for assessing actions
Scenario map
Narratives summarizing strategic refinement
Articulate your intended impact in a way that is measurable.
Even with a clear strategic framework, figuring out what is measurable along the way is a daunting task. A clear framework identifying what you’ll measure and how is the foundation of any solid approach. I help clients break down your intended impact pathways into measurable components, designing purposeful and actionable measurement frameworks that align with your Theory of Change and fit across your entire portfolio.
How can I help you? I assess your current measurement and evaluation frameworks and activities. I build a list of key indicators through careful identification and prioritization of what you will measure and how, balancing the ideal with on-the-ground data realities. I create custom, action-oriented measurement frameworks by defining and further operationalizing each indicator.
What you get
Assessment of current measurement approach
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
An impact measurement & management (IMM) or measurement, evaluation & learning (MEL) framework
Evaluation questions