Areas of Expertise
Over the past 20 years, ֱ has developed specific expertise in a number of key areas through our work with foundations, corporations, nonprofits, and governments around the world:
Collective Impact
ֱ offers comprehensive support in the design and launch of collective impact efforts, including planning support, facilitation of strategy selection, and analysis and guidance for the development of shared measurement systems. We also offer evaluation of collective impact efforts at different stages of maturity. Learn more >
Corporate Social Responsibility
ֱ helps companies develop and strengthen strategies for corporate social responsibility, corporate philanthropy, and sustainability efforts. We analyze and improve CSR and societal engagement portfolios, and identify goal-oriented investment and partnership opportunities. We also work with companies to design “signature initiatives” that position companies as leaders in creating business-aligned societal impact. Learn more >
Economic Development
ֱ partners with a variety of sector leaders to expand economic opportunity and vitality for communities around the world. Our goal is to help our clients and partners work together more intentionally, nimbly, collaboratively, and for the long haul, to disrupt the cycle of poverty for individuals and communities. Learn more >
Education & Youth
ֱ partners with foundations, university systems, national nonprofits, school districts, and corporations to improve academic and developmental outcomes for youth. We help our clients develop and evaluate strategies that support children along the cradle to career continuum. Learn more >
Foundation Strategy
Since 2000, ֱ has advised the world’s leading philanthropic organizations on how to best leverage their resources to improve lives around the world. Our services range from addressing specific strategic questions to the comprehensive design, implementation, and evaluation of strategic initiatives. Learn more >
Gender
ֱ partners with corporations, foundations, nonprofits, and collaboratives to accelerate gender equity through research, evaluation, strategy, and collaboration. Learn more >
Global Development
ֱ partners with our clients and funders to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative approaches to improve the lives of the world’s poor. We advise foundations, corporations, NGOs, and public sector organizations, individually and collectively, on strategies to address a range of development issues. We also develop innovative, market-based solutions to address social problems by combining targeted analytics with deep industry facilitation to foster development of inclusive markets. Learn more >
Global Health
ֱ’s global health practice engages with organizations and partnerships towards improved and more equitable access to quality health services and products globally, including in low- and middle-income countries. We take a systems approach to global health challenges and believe in the power of cross-sector—and often unconventional—collaborations. Learn more >
Inclusive Markets
ֱ brings companies, investors, funders, and governments together to develop strategies to scale inclusive business models, and conducts and publishes research to make these enterprises more effective. Learn more >
Opportunity Employment
ֱ’s Talent Rewire initiative facilitates and supports a learning community of employers and workforce partners interested in innovative best practices in recruitment, retention, and advancement of populations facing barriers to employment. ֱ also provides consulting services to corporations, foundations, and nonprofits who aim to advance opportunity employment. Learn more >
Purpose-Led Companies
ֱ uses shared value to help companies take purpose from an idea to a plan of action by leveraging core business activities to address material and meaningful societal issues. Learn more >
Shared Value
ֱ offers a range of shared value services to companies, from targeted efforts to address specific questions about how a company can create shared value to in-depth multi-year engagements that accompany clients from early-stage vision through implementation to realize business opportunities. ֱ also provides measurement services to enable tracking and learning. Learn more >
Strategic Learning
ֱ’s Strategic Learning practice helps private, community, family, and corporate foundations, and nonprofits understand the progress and impact of their investments and develop the supports needed to continually learn from their work. We employ a variety of approaches, methods, and processes to provide timely, credible, and useful information and frameworks that our partners can act upon to increase effectiveness and impact. Learn more >
Systems Thinking
ֱ understands that social change is about systems change. We support social change leaders and their teams in applying the principles and practices of systems thinking to their work using a variety of tools and approaches. Learn more >
U.S. Health
ֱ works with foundations and corporations to create a society where everyone lives in healthy communities and the benefit of good health is equally accessible to all. Learn more >
Case Studies
- Texoma Health Foundation
Catalyzing Asset-Based Community Action in Texoma
ֱ supported Texoma Health Foundation to engage in a community-centered strategic planning process.
- St. David's Foundation
Unlocking Impact through a Foundation-Wide Strategy
St. David’s Foundation engaged ֱ to develop a foundation-wide strategic plan amidst rapid growth to operate as a unified…
- Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi)
A Global Initiative to Increase Financing for Women-Led MSMEs
World Bank engaged ֱ to accelerate the planning of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Code to increase financing to women-led…
- Capital + SAFI
Creating Shared Value for Asset Managers: Pursuing Impact with Catalytic Investments
ֱ partnered with Capital + SAFI to deliver a series of shared value trainings for portfolio companies in the…
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