Tailored Results

  • $50M federal Social Innovation Fund launched at AmeriCorps, a pioneering, high-leverage public-private philanthropic fund which invested in 200+ nonprofits serving over 50,000 children, youth, and families.

  • Policy changes enacted at the state and federal level to improve equitable access to Head Start and Early Head Start, in partnership with a national Head Start network of 300+ leaders across the 50 states.

  • Successful state-level campaigns with 10,000 advocates and 200 coalition partners in Indiana, securing pre-K expansion and passing a cigarette tax increase to reduce smoking and save lives.

  • Issue campaigns co-created at the Pew Charitable Trusts on election reform, children’s health, and in other areas of government performance.

  • New innovation initiatives and partnerships at Lutheran Services in America improving housing and health, refugee resettlement, and family support for 75,000+ children and families, while elevating lived expertise.

Past Clients

  • Consulted to innovative, youth-focused nonprofits in NYC on a range of organizational improvement and design needs, including qualitative evaluation, public policy strategy and transition planning.

  • Working on a two-person team, led an iterative process to re-design City Year’s youth leadership development curriculum, The Idealist’s Journey, targeted to City Year’s 1,700 corps members.

  • Worked with cross-organizational leadership to formulate and author their first-ever policy brief, Supporting the Potential of Indiana Foster Students to highlight the need to attend to the risk factors and educational disparities endemic to foster children.

  • Supported leading higher education-focused philanthropy to identify emergent themes and assess their grantmaking and partnership strategies. Identified and recommended new ways to evaluate advocacy impact.

  • Led a 4-person team of graduate student consultants in exploratory merger due diligence for three leading Boston-area HIV/AIDS service providers. Led both qualitative and quantitative analysis and merger recommendations and action planning.