What we do
Get more out of your data.
We help turn data into seriously practical, real-life solutions.
Data & Systems Planning
Join us at the discovery phase to explore possibilities and develop a comprehensive scope of work. Or bring us in during collection and auditing stages to select systems, inventory datasets, create data dictionaries, and establish data management procedures. Early involvement in planning leads to superior project management and reporting outcomes.
Data Visualization
We turn complex data into easy-to-understand visualizations for your reports, presentations, dashboards, or publications. Data visualization projects typically include project planning, data exploration, storyboarding, iterative development, and rigorous quality assurance. Because there are so many moving parts to collecting, parsing, transforming, and serving data to a dashboard, these projects can be dynamic and ongoing rather than one-time.
Web App Development
We develop custom projects built on top of modern data pipelines. Some of these applications are community focused, like criminal record clearing or automatic community engagement, while others just help our clients manage their work better.
Data Engineering
We build reliable, repeatable processes that aggregate and transform data and keep it up to date on live dashboards or as snapshots for periodic reports. With automation, we can monitor, notify, and alert as needed. We’re experts at finding clever and stable ways to move data from one place to another.
Program Evaluation
We collaborate with clients at critical junctures of their grant cycles. Our team establishes clear data collection methodologies and evaluates programs across multiple dimensions.
Through clear analysis, we help stakeholders gain meaningful insights into program performance by identifying successes, challenges, and valuable lessons that can drive future improvements.
Research
We conduct independent, academically rigorous research on policy issues, delivering trusted insights that inform decision-making and strengthen your strategic positioning.
Data Training
Everyone is a data person-whether they realize it yet or not. We transform how your organization approaches information by engaging staff at all levels in the data conversation.
Our training programs go beyond technical skills to foster critical thinking about the data your team encounters daily. We create environments where questioning assumptions, spotting patterns, and drawing meaningful connections become second nature.
Strategic Planning
We guide nonprofits through comprehensive strategic planning with a data-informed methodology that transforms aspirations into achievable outcomes. Our process helps organizations define clear goals, construct robust logic models, and meaningfully engage diverse stakeholder groups.
By establishing sound data practices from the outset, we create frameworks that facilitate future evaluation and continuous improvement. Our specialized expertise in social and human services nonprofits ensures that strategies remain grounded in sector-specific realities while pushing toward innovation.
Fractional CTO
We provide nonprofits with expert technology leadership without the full-time commitment. Our team helps your organization make cost-effective technology decisions, translates complex technical concepts for non-technical executives, and implements best practices that create secure and efficient work environments. Get the strategic guidance you need to align technology with your mission at a fraction of the cost.
Consulting
Every project is different, so as consultants, we customize our processes to ensure our involvement fits your needs just right.
Service areas include:
Access to Justice
We help residents understand their rights, nonprofits understand their opportunities to advocate and defend their clients, and civic leaders make responsible, informed choices that lead to better, fairer, more equitable justice.
Civic Engagement
We help communities and businesses understand pressing and future needs, what investments to make where, and what skills and training residents need, while helping residents make informed decisions about what they do, where they live, and how they vote.
Collective Impact
No one’s in it alone, and when we prioritize data-sharing and independent review, we help communities understand the communal repercussions of certain actions or inactions, and how to move forward responsibly and proactively.
Community Demographics
So much depends on an accurate count. We’ve worked with a variety of organizations to identify areas where there’s likely an undercount, and developed materials to assist.
Criminal Justice
We help quantify the impact of changes to the criminal justice system across the U.S., influencing and affecting voters, communities, policies, and elections responsibly and through unbiased assessments of data.
Debt
We work with municipalities, businesses, and nonprofits to help understand the root causes of debt, its impact on society and families, and how communities can provide services and opportunities to help restructure, consolidate, and eliminate debt.
Disaster Recovery
Bad things happen, and when they do, it’s the most stressful time to figure out how to address it. We work with organizations to plan for the worst, build in redundancies and protections, and how to maintain or quickly resume operations in the aftermath of disaster.
Early Childhood Education
We know access to a quality education should begin at three years old, so we help organizations qualify new high quality centers and map early learning assets across the country.
Education
Access to education unlocks opportunities to lift families out of poverty, pivot to burgeoning career opportunities, and understand how societies are rapidly changing. Our work focuses on improving that access, and connecting education to the needs of each community and its businesses.
Environmental Justice
We organize and clean public environmental data made available by stage agencies. Our data pipeline tools power advocacy programs like Kuukibot and BREATHE.
Healthcare
We work closely both with healthcare organizations and on behalf of communities who benefit from healthcare, assessing data around and providing solutions for better accountability, coverage, public policies, and quality of life.
Housing
We create affordable housing studies for cities, neighborhoods, and nonprofit organizations, track all types of housing, monitor the availability of NOAH in select areas, and advocate for policy changes that increase the availability of affordable housing.
Private Data Analysis
We advise mission-driven funds on social impact investments, helping our clients know when to invest and in what, and measuring and visualizing results to help stakeholders understand the return on investment.
Public Health
We help public health departments understand and communicate to policymakers and the public the pressing issues within their communities that affect livelihood, quality of life, and life itself.
Social Services
We help nonprofits and communities understand the needs of its people and determine the best course of action, wraparound services, and accessibility opportunities to properly support those in greatest need.
Urban Planning
We develop data visualizations and digital tools to drive community engagement and insights for urban planning projects. Our work helps businesses and city leaders build smarter, more connected, more accessible communities.