Due Diligence & Research
I support philanthropic organizations to conduct due diligence and other forms of research to develop their portfolios.
With welcome trends toward trust-based philanthropy, I support foundations eager to take on the research, analysis, and field mapping that historically has been asked of grantees, in order to free grantee time to focus on mission.
Due diligence may include meetings with grantees, background research, writing briefing papers and memos regarding how an organization sits within a theory of change, or other forms of research and communications with philanthropic peers and grantees.
Monitoring, Learning, & Evaluation (MEL)
With experience in monitoring, learning, and evaluation (MEL), I support philanthropic actors with understanding their impact and injecting that learning into strategy and action.
Methods may include desktop research, interviews, collaboration with philanthropic peers to information share, and other techniques.