Our Approach

Our clients do amazing work in the world to improve lives, ecosystems and more; we bring insights, innovations and actionable learning to support their outcomes and impacts.

Thought Partnership

We do more than provide data; we facilitate reflection and share back considerations and potential implications.

We excel in situations where our clients are engaged in complex and innovative strategies to advance social change. Through our consulting, we strive to build in creative and innovative approaches; we take pride in being an effective thought partner and “critical friend.” Being on the outside, we can challenge ideas, avoid un-useful jargon, and ask questions to unearth assumptions and useful areas for focused learning.

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"ORS Impact helped surface some really important questions, particularly for leadership. We valued their insights as well as their excellent work."

- Foundation Director of Research and Evaluation

Publications

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Feature Report

Streams of Social Impact Work: Building bridges in a new evaluation era with market-oriented players at the table.

This working paper calls for optimizing the exchange between market-based actors in social impact assessment and the profession of evaluation.

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Our Work

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Feature project

Lessons from Participatory Grantmaking and Meditations on Power

Many people in the social sector hope that participatory grantmaking approaches can help transform traditional power relationships in the sector where those with the most money hold the most power. Our experience suggests that funders need to be more explicit about power and go beyond shifting who determines where dollars go.

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