Framing & Facilitation

In many ways organizations are a series of stories told about the way people interact and work in those organizations.  The way in which you frame those stories both internally and externally have a huge effect on your organization's success.  We offer tools to help facilitate the discovery of old and new ways of framing your work, products and services. Here are just a few of our methods we employ:

  • Framing focus groups and fish bowls

  • Marketing research and testing

  • Surveys and content analysis

  • Guided discussions and story maps

Crafting Change

We see organizational change and growth both as an art and a science; a creative, evidence-based process. From developing a new educational program or project, advocacy campaign, or organizational restructuring. We can help map and guide those changes starting from any phase in the process. Let us be your change agents and work with you to manage this changes. Tools at our disposal: 

  • Network analysis and mapping

  • Phase-based project development

  • Work plans and facilitation

  • Conflict management and mediation

Assessment & Evaluation

Evaluating projects, programs, or objectives can be a rocky path but a necessary process to determine effectiveness and success. We have several decades of experience in assessing organizational processes and outcomes in many domains; educational, public sector, public policy, politics, environmental, and mental health. This part of your work does not need to be the most daunting.

  • Designing and implementing assessment and evaluation plans

  • Methodological consulting 

  • Data management and statistical support

Editing and Reporting

After you've gathered those research findings,  corralled the background information, or produced organizational data, at some point you need to write it up... Whether that be an organization's annual report, a municipality's comprehensive plan, or a grant research summary we can help you edit and design amazing publications and reports.

Grant Writing and Support

Our team has many years of experience winning grants as well as managing their success through the grant term. We can support you or your organization through the writing and submittal phase, the reporting and follow-up phase, or serving as a third-party evaluation team.

Research and Analytics

We are researchers and we love research. Our team has broad-based expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods; from survey design, interviewing, and observational research, to multi-level modeling, network analysis, and more standard correlational models.  We are familiar with and are ready to support your assessment and program research, market analytics, and social science research writ-large.