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We are driven by service to those driven to make change.
Since 1999, we have helped hundreds of people and organizations more effectively serve their community. Throughout, our passion has been increasing their impact. Whether working with organizations, individuals, teams or, now, families, we help them to invest their finite time, capacity, and resources more effectively, to deliver results best aligned with their values.

We seek impact by helping you increase your own.
We have served small community-based organizations and large well-known ones, local, state, and national. We have counseled community, family and corporate foundations. We have supported organizations that serve organizers, youth, education, the arts, economic development and human services.

Throughout, we have fought for a more just society. Never has that been more important than today.

Our clients always work directly with one or both of us. Together, we bring a wide range of skills and more than seventy years of practice. To every engagement, we bring decades of experience in building capacity, developing organizations, and focusing on results.

Whatever your focus, wherever you live, let us help you increase your impact.

Julia now focuses primarily on Performance Measurement, Evaluation Design & How to Use Data to Effectively Tell Your Story.

Tom now focuses primarily on Philanthropic Advising & Donor Support.

Beyond our expertise, our work is defined by our core beliefs. Particularly now, we feel strongly about our principles. We have deeply held beliefs…

In making social, political, and cultural change in our communities, state and country.
In the probable, as much as the possible. We are proudly pragmatic.
In balancing the need for deliberative process against the finite nature of time and resources. We cannot afford to waste either right now.
In helping others be decisive and translate their intent into action, into impact.

– Julia Gittleman & Tom Mendelsohn