Strategizing, collaborating, and learning for lasting change

Foundations have a powerful role to play in today’s complex world. With their resources, networks, and knowledge, they advance change through grant dollars, shared learning, building capacity, and more. Foundations achieve the greatest impact when they partner with others, using a range of tools.

We work with foundations of all shapes and sizes—private, family, community, and corporate—on the local, regional, national, and global levels. As former foundation presidents, directors, and program officers, we bring practical knowledge to engagements spanning strategy development, capacity building, evaluation and learning, funder collaboration, and foundation management.

Our partnership approach can help you:

• Develop strategy aligned with your mission, vision, values, goals, and resources.
• Engage and learn from diverse stakeholders, including those closest to the problem you’re working to solve.
• Understand your funding landscape by identifying opportunities and challenges.
• Integrate equity practices throughout your work to build lasting movements for change.
• Develop transparent and productive relationships with your grantees.
• Evaluate efforts so that learning informs your work and that of the field.
• Build collaborative partnerships with funder peers to maximize impact.