Offerings
Where data often exists, it proves highly challenging to translate into actionable priorities. We conduct multi-faceted landscape assessments, evaluate opportunities rigorously with criteria, design organizational data strategies and systems, develop visualizations and communications, and otherwise flexibly support your needs in using data to drive ongoing decision-making.
You can work with us on analytical projects for your organization, initiative, or program to:
You can work with us on analytical projects for your organization, initiative, or program to:
- Assess opportunities to grow your impact in your current or in new domains. We'll ideate with you exciting future "points of arrival" for your initiative and then pressure-test and improve each by aligning data, research, and stakeholder perspectives to robust criteria.
- Construct fact bases on issue areas or opportunities you're exploring. We'll scope a research agenda with you; do an efficient lit review, analyze data, and conduct interviews (individual or group); and document key findings tailored to different audiences.
- Infuse a data-driven approach across your culture -- from collecting data to using it to make decisions. We'll work to understand your culture, surface opportunities to use data better, and make implementable team, systems, and process improvement recommendations.
- Craft visualizations and communications to illuminate crucial insights and compel others. We'll work with your existing content and ideas, filling gaps, to produce charts, presentations, messages, and documents to grow understanding, engagement, and investment.
Impact Snapshots
Organization logos with green stars (*) have been KG Impact Advisors clients; the other represents an engagement that Kyle Gardner managed at The Bridgespan Group in 2017-18.
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Extensive national research, project and research team member management, and facilitation of expert input panel (including current Biden administration leaders) to identify and help prioritize high-impact, actionable ideas & innovations across 20 issue areas for a very large philanthropy working to improve economic mobility and reduce inequality across the U.S. 2019.
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Development and synthesis of ROI analysis, landscaping assessments, and evaluation of possible scaling pathways into a pre-strategic planning fact base for a national nonprofit working to expand its successful, tech-enabled, near-peer advising model in supporting high-achieving, lower-income students to access top colleges. 2019.
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Strategic framework design, budget development, data analyst oversight, performance management tool creation, and investment proposal writing to help secure >$100M commitments from George Kaiser Foundation and Blue Meridian Partners for BEST early childhood initiative in Tulsa. Supports included both Phase I launch planning (2016-17) and Phase II scaling planning and implementation (2018-20).
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Management of senior client relationships, consulting team, and analytical process to segment and size the market, study landscape trends, and flesh out actionable, $1B+ business concepts to unlock dramatically more philanthropy from America’s wealthiest families. Co-authored resulting Four Pathways report named "Best Report" of the year by Inside Philanthropy. 2017-18.
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