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  • Our Approach
    • Social Impact
    • Thought Partnership
    • Accessible Information
    • Commitment to Equity
  • What We Do
    • Strategy Development
    • Theory of Change
    • Evaluation
      • Advocacy & Policy Evaluation
      • Network Evaluation
      • Systems Evaluation
    • Measurements Learning Evaluation Practice (MLE)
      • MLE Development & Support
      • MLE Lab
  • About Us
    • Team
    • Board
    • Clients
    • Careers
    • Connect
  • Blog
  • Publications

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.

 


Contact us to learn more about our approach. 

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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

Learn about our related projects


Feature project

Feedback Loops and Openness: A Snapshot of the Field.

ORS Impact conducted a baseline assessment by exploring the current state of philanthropic and nonprofit practice related to feedback loops, as well as foundation openness practices.

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FEATURE REPORT

I2L2 A Formula for Change

Impact on people and the environment is important. But important system change outcomes often occur along the way to broad scale change. The Impact, Influence, Leverage, and Learning (I2L2) formulaguides organizations in identifying different types of outcomes so they can be intentional and accountable for advancing robust, durable results while keeping track of interim steps along the way. 

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FEATURE REPORT

A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy: The Evaluation Exchange

This short piece from the Evaluation Exchange gives a high-level overview of meaningful outcome categories to help advocates, evaluators and funders agree on relevant changes arising from policy work and provides sample outcomes to aid in measurement.

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FEATURE project

Sound Discipline

Since 2014 ORS Impact has implemented a developmental evaluation of the Sound Discipline model, a systems-focused intervention that combines positive discipline with opportunities for social learning to support transformation in schools.

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FEATURE PROJECT

Georgia Family Connection Partnership

For over ten years, ORS Impact has supported the Georgia Family Connection Partnership (GaFCP), a statewide network dedicated to ensuring the health and well-being of families and communities across Georgia, to develop and strengthen its measurement, learning and evaluation efforts.

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