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Deepen your impact through data, evidence, and learning.
Let data drive your strategy and grant-making decisions and move the needle on complex changes.
We are a trusted learning partner to foundations and grantees, supporting their efforts to transform communities and catalyze social change in the United States and around the globe.
Working at the intersection of strategy, evaluation, and practice, we help maximize the impact of foundation efforts, ensuring they are informed by evidence and move the needle on complex challenges. We help foundations and their grantees develop data-driven solutions and strategies and refine programs based on results and learning. We generate rigorous evidence on effective approaches that can advance the field. To amplify lessons learned, we work with foundations to convene stakeholders and communities of practice to address key sector and cross-sectoral issues.
Our philanthropy partners benefit from the diverse expertise of 1,600 staff members, our deep networks in the United States and around the globe, and our wide-ranging capabilities.
Organizations We’ve Served
Foundations and their grantees count on us to:
Bring evidence and learning to strategy design and refinement.
Develop theories of change, results frameworks, and learning agendas to identify clear goals and measure progress.
Create systems that monitor and measure program performance to enable progress tracking.
Provide technical assistance to build measurement, learning, and evaluation capacity.
Use rapid-cycle evaluation and other real-time learning approaches to enable continuous program improvement.
Conduct rigorous research and generate evidence to grow the knowledge base.
Lead learning workshops and convenings to link evidence to strategy and practice.
How we help foundations and grantees use evidence to increase their impact
We uncover and provide new insights to inform and shape foundation strategies and program designs.
- Systematic evidence review
- Landscape assessments
- Theories of change
- Learning agendas
- Predictive analytics
- Manage grant initiatives
We support measurement and learning to inform foundation and grantee decision-making.
- MEL frameworks
- Performance measurement and dashboards
- Evidence-based TA
- Grant capacity-building
- Developmental evaluation
- Rapid-cycle evaulation
- Portfolio reviews
We conduct tailored evaluations that help to identify effective solutions.
- Impact evaluation
- Strategy/portfolio evaluation
- Implementation evaluation
- Systems change evaluation
- Advocacy evaluation
- Case studies
We leverage multiple learning and dissemination platforms to facilitate use of data and evidence.
- Learning workshops and convenings
- Communities of practice
- Audience-focused products
- Peer-reviewed publications
- Multi-channel communication
Evidence & Insights in Foundations
Feature
Evidence Informed Grantmaking
Evidence-informed grantmaking is our equity-centered, strategic framework that leverages data and partnerships to help foundations deeply understand community context and complexities to guide grantmaking strategies.
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Publication
Navigating the gray spaces in research-to-action
Related Staff
Kristin Hallgren
Director of Foundation and Nonprofit Partnerships, Education and Employment Division
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Solutions for Foundations
Let’s make progress together.
We offer foundations a full range of learning and evaluation services to strengthen program design and execution across the strategy life cycle.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
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