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:
1. 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 to articulate 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.
2. 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.
3. Grantmaking Effectiveness
- Grantmaking strategy review: Assessing the effectiveness of the foundation’s grantmaking strategies and enhancing processed to be more effective and inclusive
- Grantmaking portfolio analysis: Analyzing the foundation’s grantmaking portfolio to identify areas for improvement.
4. Stakeholder Engagement
- Stakeholder mapping: Identifying and engaging key stakeholders.
- Community engagement: Supporting community engagement initiatives.
