Civitas Strategies contributes to the betterment of children and families’ lives by helping public-serving organizations grow. Our clients do the truly noble work, in the trenches, with children and families. We enable a broad base of clients to reach more families and children by building the capacity to grow and sustain their impact. We do this through: •Strategy design – we partner with clients to identify the most significant opportunities for growth and co-design strategies to pursue them. •Advisement – we offer leaders a veritable “Swiss army-knife” of customized services to increase their effectiveness including: coaching, thought partnership, emergent strategy creation, and proposal development. •Evaluation – we provide funders and CEOs with evaluation services to improve effectiveness, speed scaling, and ensure grant compliance. •Proposal development – more than just writing proposals, we support the creation of strategies and programs that will have sustained impact and align funders’ goals. We are different from other firms in that we: 1. Are a full-service management consultancy –We bring a one-stop-shop, providing an array of services to small-, mid-, and large-sized organizations that are normally out of their reach. 2. Offer a connection - between community-based, state, and national organizations that are typically served by different sets of consultants. 3. Are action-oriented- our unrelenting focus is on a clear, measurable path forward for our clients. Their success is our success. 4. Execute complex projects under tight deadlines. We know our clients are eager to move forward, so we progress swiftly from learning to design to application. 5. We use a consistent, proven process in every engagement – the Balanced Growth Approach©, which assesses external opportunities, internal capacity, and leads to a clear path for growth.