We partner with foundations, impact investors, nonprofits, and social enterprises to ensure your measurement and learning doesn’t just generate reports, but drives meaningful change.
Intention 2 Impact is your one stop shop for measuring & communicating impact.
Together, these services reflect our belief that impact is not a static outcome—it’s an active practice.
Designing learning systems that help organizations act, not just report.
We partner with clients to co-create equity-centered, complexity-aware, and use-focused measurement, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) frameworks. Our work goes beyond tracking outputs to help organizations understand what’s working, why, and for whom—so data can actively shape strategy.
Design and implementation of MEL / MERL frameworks
Tailored research and evaluation using mixed methods
Learning questions, indicators, and sensemaking processes aligned with decision needs
Systems-change and portfolio-level measurement approaches
When impact is measured with intention, organizations can align strategy with outcomes, adapt in real time, and maximize impact—especially in complex, equity-driven environments.
Turning evidence into insight, insight into stories, and stories into action.
We work at the intersection of data and communications, recognizing that influence is a powerful mechanism of impact. We help organizations translate evidence into clear, actionable narratives that inform strategy, strengthen credibility, and mobilize resources.
Strategic storytelling and narrative development
Impact reports, learning briefs, and audience-specific products
Dissemination strategies that support advocacy, visibility, and alignment
Impact doesn’t speak for itself. When learning is communicated effectively, organizations can build trust, shift narratives, and extend their influence across policy, practice, and public discourse.
Using impact measurement to responsibly test, adapt, and scale what’s next.
We create space for experimentation and emergent learning—within projects, across portfolios, and across sectors. By pairing rigorous evidence with adaptive strategy, we help organizations de-risk innovation and move new ideas forward with confidence.
Strategy and learning support for new initiatives and ventures
Impact measurement and management (IMM) that bridges evaluation and learning for impact investing portfolios
Systems-change strategy across complex, multi-actor efforts
Support for responsible innovation, including the use of new tools and technologies
Innovation is essential—but only when it’s evidence-informed, equitable, and adaptive. We help clients use impact measurement and learning as a compass to navigate uncertainty and build solutions that last.
Every step in our process is custom fit for purpose.
Transformation requires building authentic, trusting relationships with our partners and the communities they serve.
Growth is found in curiosity, humility, and discomfort.
Our work is theoretically grounded and unconventionally creative.
We acknowledge the responsibility of our privilege, lead with gratitude, practice what we preach, and center equity in all that we do.
We honor different ways of knowing and cultivate shared intelligence from systematic, continuous, and adaptive inquiry.
We challenge the status quo in service of audacious possibilities.
We are dreamers and doers, who know that lasting impact requires both imagination and pragmatism.
