Our services

We support mission-driven partners across the full arc of strategy, program design, and implementation. Whether you're clarifying your vision, crafting a compelling proposal, or building infrastructure for growth, we help teams translate insight into action—so they can move with more clarity, alignment, and confidence.

As a lean and agile partner, we embed where we’re needed most, helping organizations build capacity without adding unnecessary overhead. Our structured yet flexible approach enables clients to assess their current state, activate their vision, and sustain momentum over time. Learn more about our strategic PRISMS approach.

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Grant Writing & Proposal Development

We develop persuasive, funder-aligned proposals that reflect the color and clarity of your work. From early-stage strategy to final submissions, we help you position your program thoughtfully, connecting its real-world impact to funder priorities and metrics.

Our approach is grounded in narrative development, evaluation readiness, and proposal architecture. Whether you need a one-time submission or a full grant strategy, we help align your story with what funders are seeking, without compromising your mission.

Common Services:

  • Grant strategy development & proposal writing (federal, state, foundation)

  • Funder-aligned logic model & evaluation plan design

  • Proposal reviews, rewrites, and narrative framing

  • Stakeholder and system positioning (ecosystem scans, value articulation)

Strategic Planning & Capacity Building

Strategy is more than a document, it’s how your organization aligns people, programs, and priorities around shared purpose. We help you clarify where you’re going and what it takes to get there. Our process blends reflection, systems thinking, and structured planning to produce actionable roadmaps grounded in both values and data.

We use tools like SWOT and PESTLE analyses, stakeholder engagement sessions, capability mapping, and implementation planning frameworks to guide strategic decisions. Whether you're preparing for growth, realignment, or launch, our strategy support makes it easier to move with intention.

Common Services:

  • Strategic planning facilitation (1–3 year or 3–5 year plans)

  • Ecosystem and stakeholder alignment diagnostics

  • Actionable implementation roadmaps & goal setting

  • Visioning workshops & long-term planning intensives

Team Building & Vision Alignment

We go beyond delivering strategic plans by fostering team alignment and collaboration through immersive experiences. Our team-building services include tailored retreats and workshops ranging from one-hour sessions to three-day immersive planning experiences. These programs are designed to align teams with a unified vision, energize your mission, and turn strategies into actionable practices.

Additionally, we host an annual Fall Leadership Retreat (Fall 2025 date TBD), a two-day intensive program for social impact leaders that combines strategic mindframing, communication skill-building, and mindfulness exercises to unlock full leadership potential.

Program Design, Evaluation & Impact

Evaluation isn’t just about reporting—it’s how your organization learns, adapts, and proves value. We design evaluation systems that support internal insight and external credibility, using mixed-methods approaches and clear outcome frameworks.

We draw from leading evaluation models including logic models, theory of change, SMART outcomes, and mixed-method designs (e.g., explanatory sequential or convergent). Our focus is always on turning data into direction.

Common Services:

  • Evaluation plan design (for grant proposals, RFPs, or internal strategy)

  • Logic model development & theory of change facilitation

  • Outcome & indicator matrix design

  • Mixed-method data collection frameworks & synthesis

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Let’s Map What’s Next — Together

We offer a free 30-minute strategy call to understand where you are and where you want to go. Together, we’ll map your Current State and explore tailored services to move you toward your ideal Future State.

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Knowledge Dissemination & Innovations Hub

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Curious about the why beneath the work? Through The Color of Insight, we offer long-form commentary, strategic insights, and experimental frameworks to illuminate the tensions, patterns, and breakthroughs shaping social change. Web Launch Release Coming Soon.

Our Case Studies

Don't take our word for it. See our results in action.

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a young girl sitting on a slide at a playground
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Designed a youth mental health empowerment program & secured $1M in funding to seed a youth civic engagement program in Sacramento, CA.

Secured $100,000 from a Community Foundation to tackle digital equity disparities among the Latinx community and improve data collection practices and data transparency across the State of California.

Designed a menthol-ban policy evaluation & research study to leverage cross-sector data to assess the policy impacts of menthol bans on smoking behavior across two cities with distinct policy implementation environments.

Youth Mental Health Empowerment

Digital Equity & Latinx Health Disparities

Impact of Policies on Smoking Behavior