Strategy that delivers results.
We’ve partnered with more than 200 mission-driven organizations, nonprofits, foundations, universities, districts, and charter networks, from early-stage teams with $500K budgets to national institutions at $100M+ scale. At every stage, the work delivers the same two things: sharper strategy, and the financial model to sustain it.
A closer look at three partnerships.
Education
SEAL
A California organization focused on multilingual learners, navigating a shifting policy and funding landscape, partnered with us to sharpen its role and chart a sustainable path forward.
Co-constructed a three-year strategic plan with staff and board, clarified SEAL’s highest-leverage role in the multilingual-learner field, and built a diversified financial model designed to strengthen long-term sustainability.
ASU Next Education Workforce
Arizona State University’s Next Education Workforce initiative engaged us for business planning and strategy to scale its model for redesigning how schools staff and deploy educators.
Built a business plan and multi-year financial model to support national scale, and defined the earned-revenue and partnership pathways to grow the initiative sustainably.
The Cahn Fellowship
A national program developing exceptional school principals partnered with us to position the organization for its next chapter, clarifying its role and growth strategy amid a changing landscape for school leadership.
Clarified the Fellowship’s national role and value proposition and defined a three-year growth strategy, with the financial model to fund and sustain it.
Range across the social sector.
Workforce development
Rivet School
Strategic plan for a learner-centered economic-mobility model connecting working adults to degrees and careers. (In progress, 2026.)
The Marcy Lab School
Strategic plan and financial model for a tech-career program for young adults. (In progress, 2026.)
New Profit
Education & national nonprofits
EdReports
Strategic plan for a leading nonprofit improving the quality of instructional materials nationwide.
Skew the Script
Strategy and sustainability for a Gates-funded organization modernizing math curriculum.
Young People's Project
Strategy for a Gates-funded organization advancing engaging, equitable math learning.
Systems & scale
Atlanta Public Schools
Strategy work at the scale of a major urban school district.
KIPP & Teach For America
Work with national organizations operating at $100M+ scale.
Gates Foundation
Partnership with a leading national funder.
Building the capacity of funder portfolios.
With partners like New Profit and Transcend, we’ve led financial-sustainability, earned-revenue, strategy-generation, and go-to-market workshop series for national cohorts spanning mental health, economic mobility, and more, reaching dozens of social-sector organizations. See how we design cohorts →
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