CASE STUDIES
Featured case studies span KG Impact Advisors' core services. Select a button below to learn more.
Features: Issue area landscaping, Opportunity evaluation, Investment planning and budgeting, Child poverty, Economic mobility.
Scope: Dallas' backbone for combatting child poverty, the Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL), has engaged us since its 2018 launch for a range of strategic advisory supports as it grows its team and model: start-up planning and annual budgeting; regional landscaping analyses and opportunity evaluations; actionable issues briefings for governmental and philanthropic investment; and investment framing and milestone reporting for national funders. Contribution: Over 18 months of analysis, writing, external interviewing, and leadership and staff advisory from 2020 to 2022 have resulted in two landscaping reports around high-impact Criminal Justice & Safety and Birth to Age 3 opportunities; localized data innovation pilots; actionable issues briefings around American Rescue Plan Act dollars and educational opportunities; and ongoing funder investment proposals and reporting on learning and innovation. Impact: Over $6M in philanthropic funding secured as a result of engagements, including over $3M from Blue Meridian Partners' Place Matters. Over $4M in governmental funding, including ARPA funds, influenced from issues briefings. Multiple recommendations from Birth to Age 3 landscaping operationalized. |
Features: National landscaping research and synthesis, Investment analysis, Economic mobility, Racial equity.
Scope: New America approached us to guide landscape research, synthesis, and stakeholder facilitation to surface high-impact, actionable opportunities at the federal, state, and local levels for the Open Society Foundations' U.S. program to increase economic mobility and reduce inequality in the U.S. Contribution: Seven-month engagement in 2019 entailed intensive landscape research and sourcing / evaluation of promising investments across 20 issue areas, co-facilitation of discovery and alignment process with "Sprint Team" of 8 national experts, management of experienced consultant sub-contractor, creation of new family persona rubric for comparing investments, and writing of four substantial reports -- on work and workers, economic mobility in place, child development, and family financial mobiltiy and security -- for national funders and networks. Impact: Multiple recommendations operationalized within New America's New Practice Lab working on User Experience (UX) for family economic policy (e.g., Child Tax Credits, paid leave, childcare wages). Additional insights and recommendations socialized with leading national funders, indirectly informing investment. |