My Approach and Background

I focus on small and growing nonprofits, so every engagement starts simple, focused, and practical. We’ll co-design indicators, tools, and systems that fit your capacity - so you can focus less on reporting and more on driving real impact, while meeting your different stakeholders’ needs.

I am passionate about helping mission-driven organizations confidently understand, improve, and communicate their impact, so they can make better decisions, strengthen credibility, and accelerate change. For nearly 20 years, I’ve worked across the monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) space in both international development (including agriculture, WASH, and nutrition) and education, in nonprofit and for-profit settings, with experience in about 45 countries. My expertise spans rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods, participatory and ethical research practices, and deep experience working with systemically excluded and climate-vulnerable populations. I use AI thoughtfully as a supportive tool — for sensemaking, synthesis, and exploring patterns — while ensuring all strategic decisions and interpretations remain human-led and mission-driven. I am committed to producing evidence that is not only technically sound, but genuinely useful to the communities they serve, and their teams, partners, and funders for learning and improvement.

You can explore the information provided on this website for examples and references around specific skillsets. You can also check my LinkedIn or contact me for a current CV.

For Big Projects and Nonprofit Strategy Needs Beyond Measurement

• I take on a few clients at a time for impact measurement needs; however if more resources are needed on a project, I pull on a team of well-qualified impact expert colleagues to support, with oversight. Colleague profiles will be introduced to clients for review if needed.

• Additionally, if clients need nonprofit development support beyond impact measurement, I also work with expert colleagues on additional offerings that can be packaged, such as the creation or refresh of a broad organizational strategy and mission, workshop design and facilitation, training curriculum development, stakeholder mapping, expert interviewing, gender equity and social inclusion initiatives and policies, justice based interventions, business training, and more.

Discovery Call

Start with a 20–30 minute call (free of charge) to talk through your organization’s goals, challenges, and what kind of measurement support makes sense. From there, hours can be billed hourly or through more structured packages, like the examples below. Use the Contact Form for your initial inquiry and I will send a scheduling invite from there.

Time-Based Packages | Problem Solving & Light Builds

These are quicker, focused engagements meant to solve specific problems you have identified, or to help you make fast progress on a specific goal you have identified:

• You purchase a block of hours, and you set the priorities.

• I jump in where you need the most support to help you move faster.

Time-based offerings work well when you need to kick off your measurement work but want to start small, when you have a specific problem or idea you need developed, or when you need to slightly polish or expand an established impact measurement system in ways you have already identified.

📩 Please use the Contact Form to set up an initial call, and to inquire about current rates. Discounts will be applied for small nonprofits (under USD 250,000 annual revenue, typically 1–7 staff), and nonprofits who have their headquarters outside of North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

In addition to hourly options, the following packages may help guide your thinking - keep in mind, if you do not fit perfectly in one of these schemes, we can easily talk through your biggest needs. All options can be customized to the deliverables that make sense for your organization.

Quick Consults

• Time: 1 hour

• Typical Deliverables: Targeted help on one measurement issue.

  Examples: Refining an indicator; designing a short survey; troubleshooting a measurement challenge; reviewing findings or a data plan

• Best for: Organizations seeking expert guidance on a specific question

Milestone Package

• Time: 3 hours

• Typical Deliverables: Support to achieve one defined milestone

  Examples: Selecting outcome metrics; aligning data to an existing framework or theory of change; drafting your first M&E plan; updating a data ethics element like informed consent; thinking through your AI use

• Best for: Organizations needing concrete, fast progress on an impact strategy

Impact Packages

Strengthening

• Time: 10 hours

• Typical Deliverables: If your foundational elements are in place, this supports developing more advanced components you may already have or need to jump start.

  Examples: Early-stage Theory of Change (ToC) or ToC revision; learning and evidence plan; improving data collection, analysis, and/or reporting systems

• Best for: Orgs wanting to formalize their measurement thinking with hands-on guidance, but not ready for a full system

Project-Based Packages | System Delivery

These packages have flat rates meant to deliver a working impact measurement strategy for your org - either through a new build or aligning an existing one that needs to be adapted to your evolving work:

• You need an expert to drive a path forward. 

• I lead and deliver the full measurement system that fits your org’s needs.

Project-based offerings work well for organizations that want data they can rely on for fundraising, strategy, and reporting; for orgs with more complex programs; for orgs that have parts of a system in place but need realignment and gaps filled; and for orgs that have leadership who want to move beyond just reporting into the learning and adaptive management space. 

📩 Please use the Contact Form to set up an initial call, and to inquire about current rates. Discounts will be applied for small nonprofits (under USD 250,000 annual revenue, typically 1–7 staff), and nonprofits who have their headquarters outside of North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

The following packages may help guide your thinking - keep in mind, if you do not fit perfectly in one of these schemes, we can easily talk through your biggest needs. All options can be customized to the deliverables that make sense for your organization.

🌐 For Small and Emerging Nonprofits (under USD 250,000 annual revenue, typically 1–7 staff)

Early-stage nonprofits are often doing powerful work with limited time and resources, but find themselves wondering about their true impact, and need clarity on how to show and strengthen their progress. This package helps you establish the building blocks of a credible, practical measurement system that fits your size and capacity.

If you are ready to launch your nonprofit and not sure where to begin when it comes to your impact measurement strategy, this is also a good package to build this element in from the beginning.

• Facilitate a goal and outcome-mapping session to clarify what success looks like for your programs

• Identify up to 5 core outcome indicators that align with your mission and are realistic to track

• Design simple data collection tools and sampling plans you can manage in-house or with volunteers with basic ethics protections embedded

• Create an analysis plan to provide clear, actionable insights for learning and adaptive management at each step, and use in reports or fundraising to tell your impact story

• Help your team understand one or two low-risk, right-sized AI options (if any) that could reduce admin time—always grounded in your capacity, comfort, and human-centered engagements.

• (Optional add-on) Develop a mini impact summary or dashboard for donors or board members

Typical Time Frame: 2-3 month engagement

🌐 For Scaling Nonprofits (USD 250,000 - 2,000,000 annual revenue, typically 7–20 staff)

Organizations at this stage are typically scaling programs, diversifying funding, and starting to face more complex reporting demands. This package helps you move from ad-hoc data collection to a clear, usable measurement system that connects your activities to the outcomes you care about most and a cohesive, actionable measurement system that supports strategy, fundraising, and learning to match.

• Facilitate a goal-setting and outcomes alignment workshop to define priority outcomes, learning questions, and/or build an organizational Theory of Change

• Develop an impact measurement strategy that aligns with your Theory of Change or strategic plan

• Ensure your core set of KPIs (3–5) are working for you, and have practical data collection methods and instruments

• Create a data management system and reporting workflow (simple, replicable, right-sized for your capacity)

• Create expanded data ethics tools, that ensure security and compliance 

• Provide training or coaching to staff responsible for data collection and use

• Support your team in identifying practical, ethical ways AI might modernize routine tasks, such as early-draft reporting or basic data summarizing, if appropriate for your workflows

• (Optional add-on) Plan a pilot data collection and analysis cycle to test and refine tools

Typical Time Frame: 3-6 month engagement

🌐 For Established Nonprofits (over USD 2,000,000 annual revenue, typically 20+ staff)

Larger, more established nonprofits often have existing data systems, funder requirements, and diverse program portfolios, but lack a unifying framework that ties these pieces together. This offering focuses on aligning impact measurement and integrating results into strategic decision-making and organization-wide learning.

• Conduct a comprehensive audit of existing indicators, data systems, and reporting processes

• Facilitate leadership and team alignment on intended outcomes and learning priorities

• Design an organization-wide impact framework linked to your strategy and Theory of Change

• Develop a data use, ethics, and governance plan to ensure quality, security, consistency, and accessibility

• Explore where AI - used thoughtfully and with strong governance - could enhance synthesis, insight generation, or data workflows, always ensuring human judgment and community expertise remain central

• Provide coaching and implementation support over 6–12 months to embed practices across teams

Typical Time Frame: 6-12 month engagement

🌐 For Larger Nonprofits and Social Enterprises

For nonprofits that are well-established in terms of revenue, staff, or years since founding, or for any for-profit organizations with a social mission, please get in touch below and we can discuss what the right fit might look like.