Over the course of twenty years, the staff of The Gilbert Center has developed a distinct reputation: We are practitioners who uphold academic standards of rigor and we are academics with a practitioners focus on getting things done. We are scientists for change.

Philanthropists, activists, social entrepreneurs, and civil society leaders have turned to us to help them achieve genuine innovation in their fields. We help them plan & launch new or revised programs, including: developing communication or technology plans, prototyping new systems, and designing theories of change & logic models. We bring unprecedented rigor to their work, through various means: serving as evaluators or evaluation coaches, designing and implementing monitoring systems, and conducting both small and large scale research. We build information and communication programs and technologies, including: knowledge management, organizational transitions, social media and networks, email marketing, and community organizing. We’ve served organizations funding or working within almost every major issue category.

We try to serve all of civil society, not just our clients. We have a wide range of broader services, including: Our newsletter, Nonprofit News, is probably better known than our firm and continues to be a valuable resource for thousands of subscribers. We regularly conduct independent research, the results of which we publish online. We have an extensive training program, designed to scale from individual professional development to large scale community and organizational capacity building. We publish ebooks on most of our core competencies.
 

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