Equity, Power & Movement Building

Our team works with clients at the intersection of health equity and systems change. Our portfolio includes evaluations of philanthropic efforts to promote equitable health access and support community advocacy to advance health and well-being within communities and among underserved groups—especially those disadvantaged because of their race, gender, age, ability, immigration status or poverty.

We are leaders in helping philanthropy build networks and institutions in emerging fields. Using methods like bellwether interviews, landscape scans, and social network analysis, we evaluate emerging and established fields working for change in the areas of violence prevention, reproductive rights, health access, racial equity, and access to education, learning, and quality jobs—and provide formative feedback so they can scale.

Deep change goes beyond transforming institutions and extends to shifting hearts and minds. That’s why we work with clients to support power and movement building. We lift up lessons, outcomes, learnings, and successes resulting from client work so that knowledge gained can be shared through accessible training and capacity building. We create contexts that empower people with lived experience—those most affected by systemic inequities—to use project-generated knowledge and evidence in their own efforts to build power and partnerships, grow grassroots support, and advance social change.

We partner with foundations to evaluate their own equity initiatives and the equity-focused strategies, organizations, and programs they support. We develop creative frameworks, measures, and tools to capture learnings that lead to meaningful change and help stakeholders improve measurement and outcomes through transparent communications, collaborative learning, and community engagement.

Racial equity and racial justice are woven into every aspect of our work. We recognize the complexity of evaluating change strategies led by diverse communities embedded in systems that have historically oppressed them, especially for low-income people, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, and people with disabilities who have been excluded from economic opportunity and advancement. We embrace the sensitivity required of us as evaluators, coaches, and technical assistance providers. We contract, hire, and partner with people who bring a strong racial justice lens, build evaluation teams that include people with diverse lived experiences and perspectives, and embrace inclusive practices in project design, delivery, management, and leadership.