Read our clients’ stories:

STRATEGY

Public Health Trust “What’s next?”

Common Vision: How do we change the conversation for long-term impact?

CompassPoint: How do we articulate our “value add”?

First 5 San Francisco: How can we become more effective at an organizational level?

EVALUATION

RYSE Youth Center: Starting Off Right

Fundraising Academy for Communities of Color: Are we doing the right things?

Latino Community Foundation: How can we increase our effectiveness while implementing our initiative?

First 5 Marin Children and Families Commission: Can we do more with others than we can alone? How?

IHPTP: Making Evaluation Meaningful

Horizons Foundation: More than a Perfunctory Exercise

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Oakland Kids First: How do we demonstrate our impact?

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

Oakland Department of Human Services: How can we have greater impact?

Center for Civic Partnerships: How can the sector have a greater impact?

Stories: Overview

Clients come to us with questions...

• “We have an idea... How can we make it happen?”
• “What is the purpose of this organization?”
• “Are we doing the right things?”
• “What do we need to do to get from here to there?”
• “What impact are we having? And, how do we know?”
• “Are we reaching the people we intend to reach?”
• “Could we have a greater impact?”
• “Our world is changing... Do we need to change?”
• “What’s next?”
• “Could we do more with others than alone?”

We partner with clients in their journey to find the answers. Getting to the answers requires asking more questions and finding the right information to answer them. Often this leads to even more questions. And, the work doesn’t stop with the answers. Together, we evaluate the answers and the client decides what actions they will take now that they know the answers.