Foundations
Foundations have the risk appetite for innovation and non-traditional charitable giving and making a sustainable positive impact on society. Corporate and family foundations can benefit immensely from external strategy support and building out learning frameworks to meaningfully evaluate their impact.
Services include:
Mission and Vision Alignment
- Mission and vision review: assessing the alignment of the foundation’s mission and vision with an intent to evolve into trust-based philanthropic strategies.
- Theory of change: creating a theory of change articulating how the foundation’s programs will lead to desired outcomes.
- Landscape assessment: comprehensive landscape assessment to inform climate action. Studies integrate ecological, social, and economic metrics with advanced locational data collection technologies like geospatial mapping and remote sensing.
Program Evaluation
- Impact assessments: evaluating the effectiveness of the foundation’s programs in achieving their intended outcomes.
- Monitoring and evaluation frameworks: developing and implementing systems to track progress towards program objectives and advancing data sovereignty with their grantees.
Grantmaking Effectiveness
- Grantmaking strategy review: assessing the effectiveness of the foundation’s grantmaking strategies and enhancing the process to be more effective and inclusive
- Grantmaking portfolio analysis: analyzing the foundation’s grantmaking portfolio to identify areas for improvement.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Stakeholder mapping: identifying and engaging key stakeholders.
- Community engagement: supporting community engagement initiatives.
