The organizations that are a good fit for GV Advisory’s services usually say things like:
"We know we need to have *that* conversation, but every time we try, we get stuck. We talk in circles and staff are starting to resent the conversation.”
“We want to share and cede power, but we don’t know where to start.”
"We don't know which data we should collect."
“We want to support organizations and people who are struggling, but we don’t know where to start.”
“There are a couple of questions we need to ask ourselves but we’re afraid to bring them up because they feel too big.”
"Our funders/partners only want output data and it's not useful to us or the people we work with"
"We need to collaborate with each other, but we don’t know where to start. All of our meetings turn into report-outs and feel like a waste of time.”
“We have some conflict under the surface, and it’s impacting our day-to-day work.”
“Our CEO/Founder is leaving and we’re going to lose their knowledge!”
"We don't know how to implement or measure progress against our strategic plan"
“Staff don’t see how their work relates to and impacts their colleagues’ work.”
Select Clients & Projects Include:
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The Grunin Foundation provides holistic support through funding, capacity building, and coalition building to organizations who have a shared vision of an equitable, just, and vibrant Central Jersey Shore.
GV is partnering with the Grunin Family Foundation on an organizational effectiveness and learning project that will help the organization learn against its strategic plan and grantee feedback. We will use this learning to inform the next chapter of Grunin’s internal operations and strategy.
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Hispanics in Philanthropy is the largest global network of philanthropists, funders, nonprofits, impact investors, and movement leaders to support, fund, and materialize our vision of change for Latines across the Americas and Caribbean.
GV designed and facilitated Hispanics in Philanthropy’s Nopalito Verde Fund grantee convening in Chicago. Grantees included Latine and Indigenous-led grassroots climate justice organizations. Using futures methods and rooting in a community garden metaphor, the group built community, power, and a shared vision of the future—plus, how they might build that future together. Read about the gathering here: https://hipfunds.org/lessons-from-the-nopal/
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Good Call NYC ‘s mission is to empower marginalized communities and create systemic transformation by using technology and community organizing to provide immediate access to legal support. By providing access to immediate legal representation, individuals are given a chance to prevent lifelong consequences for wrongful charges. By transforming the arrest process, Good Call advocates to make early legal intervention a standard in NYC and beyond.
GV partnered with Good Call to develop organizational data principles, which now support their Development strategy and ensure that the organization collects and uses data in a way that empowers community members and avoids recreating the violent and extractive data practices that the organization is fighting against. GV also worked with the team revamp their Arrest Support Hotline surveys to reflect these principles.
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The Buhl Regional Health Foundation is committed to improving the health and well-being of the neighbors they serve. They believe that through partnerships, education, and grant-making, they can creatively impact the quality of life in their communities.
GV is partnering with Buhl as a Data and Strategy Advisor: while leading an adaptive strategic planning process, she is also supporting the foundation’s leadership, staff, and board in developing and strengthening their ‘intentional data’ muscle. This partnership’s focus areas include defining success and measurement strategies, applying harm reduction and data equity lenses to individual program design and impact measurement plans, revising grant application questions to reflect the organization’s mission, and process definition and documentation. This work continues with collaborative Board development, work planning, and knowledge management. GV also serves as Buhl’s retreat facilitator and Executive coach.
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The National Network of Abortion Funds builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice.
Genevieve and her colleague, Gabi Fitz of Think Twice Consulting, are partnering to assess and improve NNAF’s knowledge management practices through an equity- and rights-based lens. This project is rooted in the principles of information justice and social justice organizing. The elements of this project include change management, design processes, values-aligned Knowledge Management and Learning practices, and organizational effectiveness.
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Andover Bread Loaf (ABL) partners with schools, community organizations, and cultural institutions to develop educational and cultural workshops, programs, and events for youth, educators, activists, and community organization staff. We believe that the power of writing and sharing in community is essential when building community, creativity, and literacy.
GV worked with ABL to co-design and facilitate an intensive three-week retreat, where the organization and its community built a mission-aligned strategic plan, restorative conflict resolution practices, and a succession plan that includes a tactical action plan to support the organization’s transition from a founder’s program to a successor’s program by 2025. GV worked with ABL through 2024 to co-design and implement liberatory data principles that center the program’s commitment to trusting young folks.
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The Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley (CFMV) collaborates with generous individuals and organizations to bring opportunity, equity, and success to the people of the Mahoning Valley.
GV partnered with CFMV as a Strategic Advisor: she supported the Foundation’s leadership, staff, and grantees in translating their newly developed strategic plan into tangible action and measurable outcomes. This work’s focus areas included defining success and measurement strategies, applying harm reduction and data equity lenses to individual program design, and working with grantees to develop their foundational data skills. GV also supported the Foundation’s Healthy Community Partnership to develop their inaugural data principles, approach to data equity and data sharing, which have since been adopted by the Mahoning County Public Health Department.
Genevieve is re-partnering with CFMV to support the articulation and implementation of the organization's Theory of Change and accompanying measurement framework. -
Human Rights Watch (HRW) defends the rights of people worldwide. HRW scrupulously investigates abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. Human Rights Watch is an independent, international organization that works as part of a vibrant movement to uphold human dignity and advance the cause of human rights for all.
GV partnered with HRW’s HR department to develop a staff-led, rights-based strategic plan, optimize processes for efficiency, efficacy, and equity, and to build a data-driven HR service delivery dashboard. In addition to strategy and organizational mission alignment, this work will inform HRW’s HRIS systems requirements and procurement strategies. As of January 2023, this work has included experience design, retreat facilitation, team-based collaboration, and coaching.
In 2025, GV re-partnered with HRW’s HR Department to facilitate a Knowledge Transfer between the Outgoing Chief People & Culture Officer, Staff, and Incoming Leadership. -
The Forest Resilience Division works across all lands to ensure forested ecosystems retain their resilience against disturbance mechanisms such as fire, insects, and diseases. Forest Resilience also monitors Washington forests to see how they are adapting to climate change, increasing drought severity, and more severe heat waves.
Genevieve and her colleague, Gabi Fitz of Think Twice Consulting partnered with the newly created Forest Resilience Division to design and facilitate a two-day retreat with 100 people, where they identified opportunities for improvement and optimization of the Division’s information sharing and collaboration practices. This work included in-depth interviews, experience design, large group facilitation, and focus groups.
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The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights protects and advances the rights and best interests of immigrant children according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and state and federal law. The Young Center is a champion for the best interests of children who arrive in the United States on their own, from all corners of the world. We serve as trusted allies for these children while they are in deportation proceedings, advocating for their best interests, and standing for the creation of a dedicated children’s immigrant justice system that ensures the safety and well-being of every child.
GV conducted a Data Ecosystem Diagnostic to design the Young Center’s first Measurement, Evaluation and Learning practice. GV also facilitated a thorough, child-first Theory of Change with a focus on equitable data practices across both the organization and field. Both pieces of work centered staff when analyzing organizational processes and opportunities for improvement. GV conducted 36 interviews, 21 team-specific workshops, and coached the Young Center’s Executive team to build a sustainable, human- and child-centered data culture. This work has allowed the Young Center to open up new areas of funding, increase efficiency, and to integrate knowledge sharing as a crucial piece of their DEIJ and workplace culture efforts.
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Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a research and policy nonprofit that creates and shared evidence to reduce poverty. With a long-term presence in 22 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, IPA leads the field of development in cutting-edge research quality, innovation, and impact.
GV conducted a Data Ecosystem Diagnostic to inform an Information and Knowledge Audit in partnership with IPA’s Knowledge Management Working Group. GV conducted 20 interviews and three workshops, in addition to a desk review and systems exploration. The results of this audit have provided a factual basis on which IPA’s leadership make decisions about strategic needs and planning, specifically concerning their systems requirements, accessibility and inclusion practices, and their knowledge management practices. As of March, 2022, IPA is using this audit as a foundational piece of their RFP and ultimate implementation of an enterprise-wide intranet.
For information about select projects conducted between 2018 and 2021, please reach out to genevieve@gv-advisory.com
The organizations that are a good fit for GV Advisory’s services usually say things like:
"We know we need to have *that* conversation, but every time we try, we get stuck. We talk in circles and staff are starting to resent the conversation.”
“We want to share and cede power, but we don’t know where to start.”
"We don't know which data we should collect."
“We want to support organizations and people who are struggling, but we don’t know where to start.”
“There are a couple of questions we need to ask ourselves but we’re afraid to bring them up because they feel too big.”
"Our funders/partners only want output data and it's not useful to us or the people we work with"
"We need to collaborate with each other, but we don’t know where to start. All of our meetings turn into report-outs and feel like a waste of time.”
“We have some conflict under the surface, and it’s impacting our day-to-day work.”
“Our CEO/Founder is leaving and we’re going to lose their knowledge!”
"We don't know how to implement or measure progress against our strategic plan"
“Staff don’t see how their work relates to and impacts their colleagues’ work.”
Select Clients & Projects Include:
-
The Grunin Foundation provides holistic support through funding, capacity building, and coalition building to organizations who have a shared vision of an equitable, just, and vibrant Central Jersey Shore.
GV is partnering with the Grunin Family Foundation on an organizational effectiveness and learning project that will help the organization learn against its strategic plan and grantee feedback. We will use this learning to inform the next chapter of Grunin’s internal operations and strategy.
-
Hispanics in Philanthropy is the largest global network of philanthropists, funders, nonprofits, impact investors, and movement leaders to support, fund, and materialize our vision of change for Latines across the Americas and Caribbean.
GV designed and facilitated Hispanics in Philanthropy’s Nopalito Verde Fund grantee convening in Chicago. Grantees included Latine and Indigenous-led grassroots climate justice organizations. Using futures methods and rooting in a community garden metaphor, the group built community, power, and a shared vision of the future—plus, how they might build that future together. Read about the gathering here: https://hipfunds.org/lessons-from-the-nopal/
-
Good Call NYC ‘s mission is to empower marginalized communities and create systemic transformation by using technology and community organizing to provide immediate access to legal support. By providing access to immediate legal representation, individuals are given a chance to prevent lifelong consequences for wrongful charges. By transforming the arrest process, Good Call advocates to make early legal intervention a standard in NYC and beyond.
GV partnered with Good Call to develop organizational data principles, which now support their Development strategy and ensure that the organization collects and uses data in a way that empowers community members and avoids recreating the violent and extractive data practices that the organization is fighting against. GV also worked with the team revamp their Arrest Support Hotline surveys to reflect these principles.
-
The Buhl Regional Health Foundation is committed to improving the health and well-being of the neighbors they serve. They believe that through partnerships, education, and grant-making, they can creatively impact the quality of life in their communities.
GV is partnering with Buhl as a Data and Strategy Advisor: while leading an adaptive strategic planning process, she is also supporting the foundation’s leadership, staff, and board in developing and strengthening their ‘intentional data’ muscle. This partnership’s focus areas include defining success and measurement strategies, applying harm reduction and data equity lenses to individual program design and impact measurement plans, revising grant application questions to reflect the organization’s mission, and process definition and documentation. This work continues with collaborative Board development, work planning, and knowledge management. GV also serves as Buhl’s retreat facilitator and Executive coach.
-
The National Network of Abortion Funds builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice.
Genevieve and her colleague, Gabi Fitz of Think Twice Consulting, are partnering to assess and improve NNAF’s knowledge management practices through an equity- and rights-based lens. This project is rooted in the principles of information justice and social justice organizing. The elements of this project include change management, design processes, values-aligned Knowledge Management and Learning practices, and organizational effectiveness.
-
Andover Bread Loaf (ABL) partners with schools, community organizations, and cultural institutions to develop educational and cultural workshops, programs, and events for youth, educators, activists, and community organization staff. We believe that the power of writing and sharing in community is essential when building community, creativity, and literacy.
GV worked with ABL to co-design and facilitate an intensive three-week retreat, where the organization and its community built a mission-aligned strategic plan, restorative conflict resolution practices, and a succession plan that includes a tactical action plan to support the organization’s transition from a founder’s program to a successor’s program by 2025. GV worked with ABL through 2024 to co-design and implement liberatory data principles that center the program’s commitment to trusting young folks.
-
The Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley (CFMV) collaborates with generous individuals and organizations to bring opportunity, equity, and success to the people of the Mahoning Valley.
GV partnered with CFMV as a Strategic Advisor: she supported the Foundation’s leadership, staff, and grantees in translating their newly developed strategic plan into tangible action and measurable outcomes. This work’s focus areas included defining success and measurement strategies, applying harm reduction and data equity lenses to individual program design, and working with grantees to develop their foundational data skills. GV also supported the Foundation’s Healthy Community Partnership to develop their inaugural data principles, approach to data equity and data sharing, which have since been adopted by the Mahoning County Public Health Department.
Genevieve is re-partnering with CFMV to support the articulation and implementation of the organization's Theory of Change and accompanying measurement framework. -
Human Rights Watch (HRW) defends the rights of people worldwide. HRW scrupulously investigates abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. Human Rights Watch is an independent, international organization that works as part of a vibrant movement to uphold human dignity and advance the cause of human rights for all.
GV partnered with HRW’s HR department to develop a staff-led, rights-based strategic plan, optimize processes for efficiency, efficacy, and equity, and to build a data-driven HR service delivery dashboard. In addition to strategy and organizational mission alignment, this work will inform HRW’s HRIS systems requirements and procurement strategies. As of January 2023, this work has included experience design, retreat facilitation, team-based collaboration, and coaching.
In 2025, GV re-partnered with HRW’s HR Department to facilitate a Knowledge Transfer between the Outgoing Chief People & Culture Officer, Staff, and Incoming Leadership. -
The Forest Resilience Division works across all lands to ensure forested ecosystems retain their resilience against disturbance mechanisms such as fire, insects, and diseases. Forest Resilience also monitors Washington forests to see how they are adapting to climate change, increasing drought severity, and more severe heat waves.
Genevieve and her colleague, Gabi Fitz of Think Twice Consulting partnered with the newly created Forest Resilience Division to design and facilitate a two-day retreat with 100 people, where they identified opportunities for improvement and optimization of the Division’s information sharing and collaboration practices. This work included in-depth interviews, experience design, large group facilitation, and focus groups.
-
The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights protects and advances the rights and best interests of immigrant children according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and state and federal law. The Young Center is a champion for the best interests of children who arrive in the United States on their own, from all corners of the world. We serve as trusted allies for these children while they are in deportation proceedings, advocating for their best interests, and standing for the creation of a dedicated children’s immigrant justice system that ensures the safety and well-being of every child.
GV conducted a Data Ecosystem Diagnostic to design the Young Center’s first Measurement, Evaluation and Learning practice. GV also facilitated a thorough, child-first Theory of Change with a focus on equitable data practices across both the organization and field. Both pieces of work centered staff when analyzing organizational processes and opportunities for improvement. GV conducted 36 interviews, 21 team-specific workshops, and coached the Young Center’s Executive team to build a sustainable, human- and child-centered data culture. This work has allowed the Young Center to open up new areas of funding, increase efficiency, and to integrate knowledge sharing as a crucial piece of their DEIJ and workplace culture efforts.
-
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a research and policy nonprofit that creates and shared evidence to reduce poverty. With a long-term presence in 22 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, IPA leads the field of development in cutting-edge research quality, innovation, and impact.
GV conducted a Data Ecosystem Diagnostic to inform an Information and Knowledge Audit in partnership with IPA’s Knowledge Management Working Group. GV conducted 20 interviews and three workshops, in addition to a desk review and systems exploration. The results of this audit have provided a factual basis on which IPA’s leadership make decisions about strategic needs and planning, specifically concerning their systems requirements, accessibility and inclusion practices, and their knowledge management practices. As of March, 2022, IPA is using this audit as a foundational piece of their RFP and ultimate implementation of an enterprise-wide intranet.
For information about select projects conducted between 2018 and 2021, please reach out to genevieve@gv-advisory.com