SERVICES
Our Work
Whether you are a philanthropist looking to activate your giving, a partnership working to launch a collaborative, or a foundation with big questions to investigate, Strategy for Scale can help. We create custom engagements in three areas to meet each client's unique goals and needs.
Philanthropic Activation
We specialize in working with new donors, welcoming them into the field of philanthropy, moving through personal barriers and advising on best practice.
Sample Engagements:
Individual or family advising to begin effective giving practices. We’ll help you get organized, activated, and connected to the right support or staffing system.
Cohort-based learning for new or emerging women donors. Gathering women together to investigate ways to unlock and advance giving, especially for those at the earliest stage.
Launching new efforts (technologies, products and services) that support the philanthropic sector, with the specific purpose of activating more philanthropy. See: Redwoods Collective.
Sector Innovation
Working in partnership with many others, we look for opportunities to advance the sector and activate more philanthropists by lifting up patterns and identifying opportunities for greater understanding and innovation.
Sample Engagements:
Understanding current philanthropic trends. The current philanthropic marketplace is changing quickly. We look to find patterns and predictions to support our collective understanding of needs and opportunities. See some of our research here.
Exploring the need for new philanthropic infrastructure. Donors are increasingly turning to philanthropic advisors and lean staffs to manage their giving. We identified significant infrastructure needs to help this new professional class activate philanthropy.
Highlighting the role of philanthropic collaboratives in creating impact. Collaboratives have grown exponentially in the past five years. While it is a nascent field, we work to ensure donors can understand the role of collaboratives in the ecosystem, find and fund them.
Advising
We provide limited advising hours (like office hours) for donors and doers interested in collaboration and strategic consultation.