Your dream team for applied research, evaluation, and strategy
From social enterprises, to foundations, donor collaboratives, and impact investors, we ensure your efforts are effective, relevant, equitable, and sustainable.
Full-Service Research + Evaluation
Igniting a-ha moments
We design and deliver tailored research and evaluation projects using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, so you can get the answers you’re looking for.
Whether you want to deepen your understanding about a program’s design or evaluate a strategy’s long-term impact, we have a vast toolkit to meet your learning needs. We meet you where you are with formative, summative, and developmental approaches depending on your context.
Technical Assistance + Capacity Building
Boosting internal capacity
Transform the way you think about evaluation and learning with our interactive webinars, trainings, and customized workshops for individuals, teams, or cohorts.
Upskill your organization and increase your confidence in collecting and working with data.
Designing + Implementing 360° MERL Frameworks
Putting data into action
You have a bold vision for the communities and systems you serve. And you want to know your impact will be sustainable over time.
We work with you to design a unique MERL framework to support internal strategy, respond to various data needs over time, ensure external accountability, and thread connectivity across your organization. So you can get the information you need to maximize your impact.
We aren’t just experts. We shine light on your expertise.
With confident humility, we are not here to tell you what to do. We believe evaluation is less about measuring what’s good or bad, and more about illuminating possibilities and helping communities decide what is most valuable for them.
We know better than to claim we know better. We’ll help you generate collective knowledge for organizational learning (and unlearning) to catalyze change.
Learn more about our MERL framework
Monitor Comprehensively
Monitoring is an ongoing process for tracking how a program, strategy, or process is implemented in real-time. We design systems so that monitoring is done comprehensively, to keep a pulse on programming and broader systems.
Research Purposefully
Research employs similar data collection methods as evaluation, however rarely includes the value judgment that makes evaluation unique. Our MERL frameworks include research strategically to investigate issues, trends, and people to turn theories of change into actual change.
Evaluate Strategically
Evaluation is a process of asking questions and making value judgements about (1) how a program or strategy is designed & executed, (2) what outcomes it is having, and/or (3) the long-term impact it is contributing to. Our frameworks ensure evaluation is done purposefully, to systematically understand what works, what doesn't, and why.
Learn Continuously
Learning brings it all together; it is where data informs action. We recommend that learning occurs continuously to enable your organization to adopt a growth mindset and innovate with confidence.
The values driving our work:
Every step in our process is custom fit for purpose.
INTENTION
Transformation requires building authentic, trusting relationships with our partners and the communities they serve.
INTERDEPENDENCE
Growth is found in curiosity, humility, and discomfort.
INTROSPECTION
INNOVATION
Our work is theoretically grounded and unconventionally creative.
INTEGRITY
We acknowledge the responsibility of our privilege, lead with gratitude, practice what we preach, and center equity in all that we do.
INTELLIGENCE
We honor different ways of knowing and cultivate shared intelligence from systematic, continuous, and adaptive inquiry.
INGENUITY
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.
IMPACT
Join us at the Intersection:
The team from I2I were absolute legends in leading and managing two retrospective evaluations of our efforts at the Foundation. In both cases, I have to say we were pretty unrealistic in what we hoped to understand, learn, and do from the start, but the team at I2I was undaunted. They bring together highly refined technical skills, a strong eye for style and design, and joyful, engaging presence to complex work and tough questions — a rare find!
— Megan Colnar, Former Director of Strategy + Impact, Open Society Foundations
