Rediscover Elevate: Get to Know Us and Explore Our New Services!
Written by Brianna Stephens
Let us reintroduce ourselves! Elevate Consulting is a full-service firm dedicated to supporting nonprofits, collaborative community groups, foundations, and municipalities in designing and implementing smart, efficient strategies and programs that improve their community. We are here to help you and your organization live out your mission and drive equitable social change in the world.
If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve been connected to Elevate for a while, but may not be fully aware of everything we offer. Whether you’re a long-time partner or just getting to know us, we’re here to walk you through how we can work together to strategize, design impactful initiatives, evaluate your programs, and foster sustainable, systems-level change.
Our services are customized to help you create meaningful impact within the social sector ecosystem, leveraging our team’s expertise to identify and implement key strategies and interventions.
Do you represent an organization, a program, or a community-based collaborative? No matter your needs, Elevate’s comprehensive offerings are designed to support you in reaching your goals.
For Programs.
Telling the story about the impact of your program is key to securing organizational resources, recruiting volunteers, attracting donors, and reaching those who you serve. Whether you are seeking to build something new or update an existing program, our team will help you design, measure, and communicate the important work you do.
Evaluation and data. Evaluating the right outcomes and using data to discern the effectiveness of your program and communicate its impact through:
Grant evaluation
Evaluation strategy and design
Quantitative and qualitative data collection design and implementation
Data analysis
Data visualization and reporting
2. Impact Study
Understand the impact of your organization and its programs and services to support you in telling your organization’s story
3. Strategy and design. Supporting your program at every stage of growth and change through:
Needs assessments
Program design
Journey mapping
Theory of change development and logic modeling
4. Trainings and workshops. Helping your teams better understand data and design by:
Understanding and Learning from Data
Understanding and Applying Evaluation Methods
Understanding and Building Logic Models
Designing Programs
When should you engage Elevate as a program? Signs that you’re ready:
Are you in the process of designing a new program or initiative?
Have you encountered a programmatic impasse that’s hindering progress?
Do you need to strengthen your team’s capacity to enhance efficiency?
Do you need assistance in measuring and articulating your impact?
Are you tasked with reporting outcomes and metrics to funders?
Are you aware of the progress your program is achieving but uncertain about how to map and demonstrate its success?
For Organizations.
Does your organization have what it needs to advance your mission? From planning, creating and sustaining internal processes, to evaluation and data, our services are designed to help leaders preserve their passion and realize their vision for their organizations.
1. Strategy and design. Supporting your organization at every stage of growth and change through:
Needs assessments
Organizational visioning and goal-setting
Strategic planning
2. Evaluation and data. Evaluating outcomes and using data to tell your organization’s story and connect with your donors and partners through:
Organizational data and evaluation strategy design
Identification of organizational metrics to inform learning
Strategic plan implementation measurement
Have you heard about FLEX? Based on our years of experience, we often see that a lack of dedicated capacity is a significant hurdle for organizations to collect, analyze, report, and make meaning from their own data. Sometimes there are several pain points, and nonprofits can be overwhelmed with where to start. With FLEX, organizations can select a package of monthly hours to embed an Elevate Consultant into their team to address any number of needs that arise over the course of an annual engagement, including but not limited to grant reporting, data cleaning and analysis, in-house training, theory of change, logic models, evaluation guides, and more.
4. Trainings and workshops. Helping your organization grow capacity, understand data, and design effective initiatives through:
Understanding and Learning from Data
Understanding and Applying Evaluation Methods
Understanding and Building Logic Models
Engaging in Collective Impact groups
Designing Programs
When should you engage Elevate as an organization? Signs that you’re ready:
Are you looking to develop a more data-driven culture but aren’t sure where to start?
Do you need help identifying clear, strategic goals for the next phase of growth?
Are you looking for better ways to engage your stakeholders and align them with your vision?
Do you currently collect data, or would like to start but aren’t sure how to make it actionable?
Are you eager to try something new, but unsure how to design and execute it effectively?
Do you feel uncertain about your community’s needs and how your organization can contribute to addressing them?
For Community Collaboratives.
We are both passionate and experienced in leading systems change at every growth stage. Elevate helps leaders and backbone organizations identify and gather the data and evaluations necessary to build strategies, as well as support overall operations through governance, facilitation, and management. We can support your backbone organization in building engaged, impactful, and sustainable collective groups that work together to make significant community transformations.
1. Strategy and design. Supporting your group at every stage of growth and change through:
Needs assessments
Asset, resource, stakeholder/actor, and system power mapping
Infrastructure and governance planning and design
Consensus-driven planning
Priority identification and implementation planning
2. Operational support. Supporting backbone organizations in managing a collaborative or collective impact group through:
Backbone support
Facilitation services
3. Evaluation and data. Evaluating outcomes and using data to maintain momentum and buy-in throughout the long-term work required for systems change through:
Data collection and mapping
Impact Evaluation
4. Trainings and workshops. Helping your collaborative better understand systems change, evaluation, and collaboration techniques by:
Understanding and Applying Evaluation Methods
Supporting Productive Collaboration
Understanding and Designing Systems Change
Introduction to Facilitation
When should you engage Elevate as a Collaborative? Signs that you’re ready:
Do you need structured processes to ensure sustainable growth and achieve long-term impact?
Is your organization struggling to establish strong partnerships or collaboration opportunities within the community?
Are you looking to improve communication and collaboration among partners?
Do you need help in aligning goals and objectives across the collaborative?
Are you seeking to evaluate the impact of your collective impact initiative?
Do you want to develop more effective strategies for community engagement in your collaborative efforts?
Elevate is here to empower your organization, program, or community collaborative to achieve its mission and create positive social change. Regardless of whether you’re a longstanding partner or exploring our services for the first time, our service offerings are inclusive but not exhaustive of the ways we can support you to meet your unique needs.
By collaborating with us, you can tap into our expertise to design effective initiatives, assess your programs, and ensure sustainable growth.
