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Thought Partners for
Social Innovators

We deliver consultations that provide insights and support confident action, specializing in the complicated, messy, and complex that characterizes so much of the meaningful work our clients do to support social change. 

Framework: I2L2 (updated)

Impact, Influence,
Leverage, and Learning

In this update we offer ways of grouping systems change outcomes and helping ways of thinking about complex social change work.

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Report: social change

Not Always Movements

How are we trying to make change? Explore different approaches for large scale social change.

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Report: Measurement

Measuring Narrative Change 

Understanding Progress and Navigating Complexity

 

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Brief: Social change

How to do Process Tracing

A method for testing "how change happened" in complex and dynamic settings

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Brief: Defensive Advocacy

When the Best Offense is a Good Defense

A brief that outlines how to understand and measure defensive advocacy.

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study: Collective impact

When Collective Impact has an Impact 

Read more about this research study recently completed by ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute.

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The ORS Impact team has earned a global reputation for leadership, insight and innovation.

We work collaboratively with our clients, bringing our distinctive expertise in planning, measurement and evaluation to their most vexing challenges.

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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."
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Feature Report

Measuring Narrative Change: Understanding Progress and Navigating Complexity

This brief offers insights into some of the questions facing practitioners, funders, and others interested in measuring this kind of work: How do you lay the foundations for successful measurement? What short- and longer-term signals can you look for to indicate that things are moving in the right direction? How can you understand the impact of narrative change efforts when they’re happening in complex, dynamic environments?

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Feature report

Informing Advocacy and Communication Capacity Building Efforts

The Gates Foundation engaged ORS Impact to develop a culturally relevant, methodologically rigorous tool to learn more about successful capacity building. This brief shares that tool, which may help advocates and foundations understand what constitutes strong advocacy and communications, as well as opportunities to build capacity and understand how it is changing over time.

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Feature report

How to do Process Tracing: A Method for Testing "How Change Happened" in Complex and Dynamic Settings 

Process tracing is a causal methodology that can help people understand how a particular large-scale change actually happened within a complex dynamic environment.

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When Collective Impact Has an Impact

ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute completed a rigorous study to understand when and how collective impact contributes to systems and population change. Looking across 25 initiatives working on different focus areas, the study looks at the contribution and outcomes of collective impact, the design and implementation of the collective impact approach, with a specific deep-dive into equity.

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