"Shared learning across a portfolio can strengthen the organizations inside it. Respecting local context and protecting trust are design choices we get to make."
For leaders whose work runs across teams, partners, grantees, or sites: facilitated planning that ends in action, aligning people who see the problem differently, and learning across a portfolio without burdening anyone.
Facilitated planning produces a plan people use when the process is designed to reach decisions, and an outside facilitator lets the leader take part instead of running the room.
Explore this Topic →Partners who see a problem differently can still reach alignment, and the work is surfacing that difference instead of talking past it.
Explore this Topic →Funders can learn from grantees without exhausting them, and the line between support and monitoring is a design choice the funder makes.
Explore this Topic →Measuring the same things across sites is possible without erasing what makes each one different, and the design question is which few things everyone reports and what stays local.
Explore this Topic →For anyone holding or writing a grant: the evaluation section of the proposal, running the evaluation across the award, ethics and IRB, and what to do when findings are hard.
For anyone deciding whether to bring in an evaluator: outside help or in-house, how to find and vet one, what evaluation costs, and what working together is really like.
For leaders who have data and a story to tell: making sense of what you already have, turning it into reports people read, and communicating results to boards, funders, and communities.