How We Partner With Organizations
Three Pathways to Transform Your Data Into Strategic Impact
Story + Strategy
For Nonprofits Ready to Prove Their Impact. We help you define clear outcomes, clean and organize your data, and evaluate program effectiveness. You'll gain both immediate insights and sustainable systems for ongoing learning after our engagement ends.
TRAIL Outcome Compass
For Foundations Seeking Portfolio-Wide Clarity. Align your grantmaking strategy with measurable impact. We build systems to track grantee outcomes consistently, provide technical support to your partners, and create dashboards for real-time portfolio insights.
Coaching + Training
For Teams Wanting to Build Data Capabilities. Strengthen your skills exactly where you need them: evaluation design, data analysis, dashboard development, or data management. Customized training and coaching to match your specific challenges and goals.
Story + Strategy
Education and Youth Development Organizations
For teams ready to learn with data, tell their story with evidence, and grow their impact.
The Challenge
Many evaluation firms conduct a study, hand you a report, and leave. Six months later, you're back where you started—no systems, no capacity, no sustainable way to prove your impact.
Our Approach
We build your learning practice so you can generate evidence continuously and use it for reflection, improvement, and storytelling—not just when a funder asks for it.
Our process blends rigor and heart. We help you uncover what's working, understand why it works, and communicate your impact in ways that resonate.
TRAIL Outcome Compass
For foundations supporting education and youth development organizations
Get a clear view of your impact across grantees with consistent data and shared learning to drive smarter investments.
The Challenge
Measuring impact across a portfolio is tough. Each grantee defines success differently, collects different data, and has varying levels of evaluation capacity. You want a clear, consistent picture of whether your investments are working, but it’s hard to get that clarity from a patchwork of reports. You also want to strengthen grantee capacity, but you may not have the systems or dedicated support to make that happen.
Our approach
We partner with funders to create clarity and capacity across portfolios. The TRAIL Outcome Compass helps you and your grantees align around shared outcomes so that they can collect meaningful data and you can learn together.
When you have this in place, you will have easy access to reliable evidence of collective impact and stronger organizations that can sustain learning long after the grant ends.
Data and Evaluation Coaching
Organizations that need support but aren't ready for a full learning practice implementation
What We Offer:
Evaluation Planning Support
We help you design evaluation plans that are right-sized for your organization and answer your most important questions.
Data Analysis Coaching
We teach your team efficient strategies to analyze and interpret data you're already collecting.
Strategic Consultation
We provide expert guidance on measurement frameworks, data systems, and evaluation approaches.
Learning & Reflection Sessions
We facilitate workshops with teams to reflect on data and create action plans based on findings.
Data Storytelling Workshops
We train teams to present findings in compelling ways that resonate with funders and stakeholders.
NOT SURE WHICH IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Book a discovery call. We'll learn about your organization's challenges and recommend the best approach.
