Corporate Social Impact

• Clarifying your corporate and social impact priorities and how they fit with the communities where you engage to identify opportunities for leveraging your financial resources, technical expertise, and employee passion and commitment for maximum impact. 

• Facilitating the articulation of a cohesive strategy to achieve your goals and positioning your company as a respected corporate citizen with key external and internal constituents. 

• Partnering with your board and other stakeholders to determine a focus and method of giving that will have a solid impact on the target issue areas. 

• Designing and operating highly relevant and impactful social impact programs. 

• Developing the full suite of grantmaking materials and processes, including LOI, RFP management, stakeholder outreach, organizational vetting, due diligence and timeline management. 

• Managing the application process, including proposal review, program summary development, funding recommendations, and facilitating grants decision-making meetings. 

• Reviewing grants management systems and processes to identify areas for improvements and efficiencies. 

• Fostering a learning culture by continuously iterating with partners and the broader field, using evidence and reflection to drive more strategic and impactful social change. 

• Designing and implementing Learning Communities to create connections and collaborations among grantee cohorts, provide technical assistance and capacity building to strengthen projects, and deepen program impact. 

• Facilitating diverse stakeholder groups, including within corporations, to solidify goals that align with the company’s purpose and business goals and develop measurement and evaluation frameworks (including theory of change and KPI development) across diverse program areas. 

• Conducting multiple types of evaluation including formative, outcome, and rapid cycle learning to understand if the programs are meeting their objectives and to identify where course corrections should be made. 

• Highlighting best practices and peer benchmarking in social impact work. 

• Managing and validating data, including reviewing and cataloging grant reports, assessing data quality and accuracy for reporting, aggregating it, and reporting to staff and board. 

• Identifying and mapping critical stakeholders in your ecosystem to structure your engagement, prioritize levels of collaboration, and co-create systems with communities to manage ongoing relationships. 

• Listening and continuously integrating community voices to create adaptive, meaningful, and community-informed programs and convenings, including listening and talk-back sessions, focus groups, learning communities, and innovation programs.  

• Establishing meaningful alliances between funders, grantees, and other stakeholders, assembling and activating advisory boards, identifying and engaging collaborative partners, and nurturing and optimizing mission-aligned partnerships. 

We also serve as an extended team for corporate social engagement units, leading their measurement and evaluation across global investments and employee engagement.  

• Developing communications tools for corporate social impact officers and nonprofit partners by interviewing leaders to understand expectations, identifying challenges, and translating program impact into clear, strategic messaging that enhances collaboration and effectiveness. 

• Designing and implementing listening sessions 

• Aiding boards and investors in understanding expenditures and value generated.