Our services
Social Contract offers flexible consulting to tackle complex challenges. We customize our approach, plan a path forward, and build lasting organizational capacity. From strategic planning to program implementation, all services follow our five-step social change framework.
Phases of Social Change
Social Contract supports clients through every phase of the social change lifecycle. We help you design smart strategies, implement with precision, and sustain lasting results.
Click on each phase below to learn more.
Our discovery process fully explores issues by identifying what works, what doesn’t, available resources, and stakeholders input, with a focus on including marginalized voices. Depending on your needs, this may involve:
- Literature review of best practices, relevant policies, innovations, barriers, or challenges
- Community and stakeholder engagement through interviews, focus groups, surveys, or observation
- Review of data and data systems to assess baseline data and potential measurement tools
- Facilitation of sense-making workshops, which create space for listening and reflection, allowing different framings, stories, and viewpoints to be explored
We’ll provide our findings from the research for your feedback and reflection. These discovery reports guide future decisions about how to approach the issue. Reports may include:
- Best practices report
- Landscape analysis
- Ecosystem map
- Asset and resource map
- Organizational needs and capacity assessments
- Data audit
Our team facilitates workshops and provides individual support to help stakeholders co-create plans from discovery insights. We act as advisors, documenting decisions and offering input. Deliverables can include:
- Strategic plans and theory of change development
- Program and service design
- Implementation plans – roadmaps and accelerator frameworks
- Equity-centered frameworks
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) frameworks
We ensure plans can be implemented by considering all scenarios and providing tools and resources for successful, adaptable, and lasting solutions.
Rolling out new initiatives is hard, especially for public service organizations with tight budgets, small staff, and essential programs that must continue. Our team can lead implementation or supplement your efforts by providing:
- Project management (including meeting facilitation, minutes, and project reports)
- Network management and partner coordination
- Technical assistance and capacity building
Effective measurement focuses on the right metrics to ensure strategies create effective and sustainable outcomes. To demonstrate outcomes and continuous improvement, our team can provide:
- Data collection and analysis
- Facilitation of analysis and learning spaces
- MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning) implementation/support
- Customized dashboards or program evaluation reports
Our goal is to facilitate sustainable social change. We equip your team with the necessary tools to achieve your objectives, both now and in the future. Our team can assist with:
- Fundraising plans
- Strategic communication plans
- Strategic partnership strategies
- Scaling up plan
- Grant writing