is a verb™
We partner with foundations, impact investors, nonprofits, and social enterprises to ensure your measurement and learning doesn’t just generate reports, but drives meaningful change.
Intention 2 Impact is your one stop shop for measuring & communicating impact.
MEASURE IMPACT
to build clarity and fuel learning
AMPLIFY INFLUENCE
to ensure learning moves people and leads to action
CATALYZE INNOVATION
to transform insight into new strategies and approaches
Together, these services reflect our belief that impact is not a static outcome—it’s an active practice.
MEASURE IMPACT
Designing learning systems that help organizations act, not just report.
We partner with clients to co-create equity-centered, complexity-aware, and use-focused measurement, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) frameworks. Our work goes beyond tracking outputs to help organizations understand what’s working, why, and for whom—so data can actively shape strategy.
What this includes:
Design and implementation of MEL / MERL frameworks
Tailored research and evaluation using mixed methods
Learning questions, indicators, and sensemaking processes aligned with decision needs
Systems-change and portfolio-level measurement approaches
Why it matters:
When impact is measured with intention, organizations can align strategy with outcomes, adapt in real time, and maximize impact—especially in complex, equity-driven environments.
AMPLIFY INFLUENCE
Turning evidence into insight, insight into stories, and stories into action.
We work at the intersection of data and communications, recognizing that influence is a powerful mechanism of impact. We help organizations translate evidence into clear, actionable narratives that inform strategy, strengthen credibility, and mobilize resources.
What this includes:
Strategic storytelling and narrative development
Impact reports, learning briefs, and audience-specific products
Dissemination strategies that support advocacy, visibility, and alignment
Why it matters:
Impact doesn’t speak for itself. When learning is communicated effectively, organizations can build trust, shift narratives, and extend their influence across policy, practice, and public discourse.
CATALYZE INNOVATION
Using impact measurement to responsibly test, adapt, and scale what’s next.
We create space for experimentation and emergent learning—within projects, across portfolios, and across sectors. By pairing rigorous evidence with adaptive strategy, we help organizations de-risk innovation and move new ideas forward with confidence.
What this includes:
Strategy and learning support for new initiatives and ventures
Impact measurement and management (IMM) that bridges evaluation and learning for impact investing portfolios
Systems-change strategy across complex, multi-actor efforts
Support for responsible innovation, including the use of new tools and technologies
Why it matters:
Innovation is essential—but only when it’s evidence-informed, equitable, and adaptive. We help clients use impact measurement and learning as a compass to navigate uncertainty and build solutions that last.
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
