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Portfolio
When we insist on finding new ways to deliver uncommon value, our clients benefit not only from our expertise but also from our inventiveness. Explore how we've brought innovative elements to each assignment within our portfolio.
How A Conference Grew a Network
On behalf of Georgia Organics, we conducted network mapping of the inaugural SOWTH conference in 2025, with over 1000 farmer and food institution attendees, to show how the conference strengthened networking in real time.
The Map of Possibility: Philanthropy
One of our most cherished initiatives, the Map of Possibility: Philanthropy is our brainchild—a crowdsourced storytelling and imagination resource inspiring a bolder and more creatively resourced future philanthropy.
Measuring Organizational Health and Resilience
After multiple years of financial and capacity strengthening investment in their partners, in 2024 WomenStrong commissioned us to conduct an outcome evaluation, Blueprints for Resilience, of the resilience and health of the partners. We used outcome harvesting and our adaption of a little known "critical moments" method for a mixed qualitative data collection approach.
Mixed Media Makes an Impact Report
Using fresh features and narrative approaches –such as a staff "day-in-the-life of" – and bold mixed media graphics, we collaborated with the Batonga Foundation to develop their 2023 and 2024 annual reports.
Making Palettes for a Self-Sufficent Client
Within a multi-faceted communications assignment for Southern Crescent Habitat for Humanity in 2025, we created a style guide and editable templates to empower the organization to undertake its own collateral development over time.
A Metaphor as Theory of Change
We worked with WomenStrong International to develop an interactive ‘pollinator’s garden’ as a metaphor for the kinds of changes women's rights organizations achieve with support from WomenStrong. In contrast to more technical theories of change, this interpretation is meant to intuitively convey how change happens, to lay and expert audiences alike.
A Strategy With a Grounding Metaphor
In this rendition of the Batonga Foundation's strategic plan, we created an illustrated grounding metaphor for the strategy. The Foundation later referenced this metaphor when constructing a narrative for its future.
A Pollinators Atlas Displays Resources
For Georgia Organics and the SOWTH network, we built a Pollinators Atlas using crowdsourced data from regional businesses and nonprofits. The tool, designed to continue to grow and to be user friendly, highlights the wide range of support available to farmers, producers, and ranchers—from equipment and financing to legal aid and business training.
A Social Network Analysis for Anti-Slavery Leaders
Freedom Fund aims to support and connect frontline leaders—especially women and survivors—to challenge the systems enabling exploitation in their communities. In 2023-2024, we worked with Freedom Fund to conduct a social network analysis to assess the strength of the network of Freedom Rising leaders in Brazil.
Beyond Recommendations
Rather than leave them languishing in a recommendations section, WomenStrong worked with us to turn the takeaways from an evaluation into a messaging tree, stories, and collateral that would inspire global action.
An Impact Report Marks Seven Years
In order to celebrate seven years of promoting civic engagement, reproductive justice, and women, femmes, and girls' leadership, Women Engaged commissioned us to create this impact report.
Imagining Future Food Jobs for Here-and-Now Benefit
In August 2024 we led a Food Jobs of 2050 "imaginaries" exercise with Wholesome Wave GA to wildly ideate future and current opportunities.
How Unequal is Atlanta?
Does Atlanta Still Hold the Title of Most Unequal City. Our 2024 No End in Sight Research, challenged a popular conception. Our work was also profiled in the Metro Atlanta newspaper, Decaturish.
Where MEL Meets Power
What happens when organizations are driven by their own desire to learn and measure impact, rather than by donor mandates to do so? We set out to explore this question and found out that it strikes right at the heart of power relations in the international development sector.
Exploring How Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs Network
We conducted a social network analysis-based evaluation for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to assess the quantity and quality of relationship-building between women in their indigenous women’s entrepreneurs program.
Did Global Influence Lead to COVID-19 Vaccine Equity?
We conducted an independent evaluation, Fighting for the Least Vaccinated, of CARE's local-to-global COVID-19 vaccine initiative. Our evaluation was focused on the global systems influence aspects of CARE's work. Several aspects of our analysis were used in CARE's overall evaluation. As global-level influence is particularly tricky to measure, we deployed atypical means ranging from tracing and visualizing online key word usage to attribute influence, to contribution ranking that provided a differentiated picture of impact per domain.
Power, Innovation, and Provocative Ways to Tell of Them
A provocative "guide to giving away power?" Slow food as a quiet revolution? In 2024 we undertook a multi-media communications project for the Vermont Foodbank to create written and visual features that creatively expressed the power-shifting work of their innovation lab.
What Do Tax Rates Have to Do With Food Insecurity?
As one of several discoveries we made in a food insecurity baseline conducted for Northwest Harvest in 2023, we uncovered the role that a seemingly progressive tax rate played in food insecurity in Washington state. The organization was later able to highlight the importance of tax policy as part of their advocacy efforts.
A Food Justice and Equity Index
As part of a food insecurity assessment conducted in 2024 for Northwest Harvest, we created a food justice and equity index to provide an at-a-glance measure of food banks' performance. Justice and equity are just the sort of abstract values few attempt to measure — and just the kind of challenge we like to take on.
Reddit, Tiktok, Google Reviews, Serve as Atypical Data Sources
As part of a food insecurity assessment conducted n 2024 for Northwest Harvest, we mined atypical qualitative data sources like Reddit, TikTok and Google reviews for lived experiences of food insecurity and of interactions with the hunger relief system in Washington state.
"Influencer Style" Keeps It Real
As a playful departure from staid project story videos, we created an "influencer" approach for the Batonga Foundation's videography to get adolescent girls to express themselves authentically and freely while delighting audiences.
An Evaluation In Video Form
We conducted an independent evaluation for CARE USA, and found a way to tell its story–with graphs and all–in video form. Fighting for the Least Vaccinated assesses CARE's local-to-global COVID-19 vaccine initiative and whether CARE's global influence helped ensure vaccine equity.
Reflective, Imaginative and Nourishing Dialogue
Facilitated dialogue – the kind that slows the pace and unearths deeper layers of knowing – are at the very core of our creative ethos. We've facilitated numerous workshops with various organizations, including Ignited Word, on themes ranging from thought leadership, to using storytelling and poetry for communication, to messaging, to network mapping.
"And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit."
—Kahlil Gibran, "On Work"
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