Your goals are our goals.

No two projects are the same.

The team at SFG Strategies is committed to treating every engagement like it’s our only one. Your goals become our goals. We provide personalized attention and the highest caliber of expertise in order to deliver measurable return on investment for the people and communities you serve. 

The below sampling of engagements highlights our work from hyper-local to international in scope. 

  • First Connections

    - Perform a regional food system analysis for a rural coalition of early childhood advocates and funders.

    - Work alongside the coalition to develop a three-year food security plan that places equity and long-term sustainability at its core. 

    - Develop strategic partnerships and write grant proposals to secure the financial resources needed to implement the plan and achieve the vision. 

    - Oversee program pilots and put in place evaluation plans that encourage insights and learning.

  • Rhode Island Food Policy Council

    - Chart a three-year plan for a state-level food systems coalition to grow in capacity and impact.

    - Develop a funding strategy and multi-year road map for deepened engagement and revenue diversification, including extensive prospect research.

    - Advise about legal structure and internal structures that will best support growth, including governance, staffing, and other organizational development opportunities.

    - Build consensus across the coalition to activate the plan.

  • Capital Impact Partners

    - Design a social impact fund that uses capital, technical assistance, and network development to equitably build wealth and health in under-invested communities across three states. 

    - Utilize quantitative and qualitative data and stakeholder engagement to assess the market, chart the strategy, identify partners, establish impact evaluation metrics, and define the fund's financial requirements.

    - Develop a pipeline of projects with capital needs as diverse as $25,000 and $7 million.

    - Iteratively engage on expansion feasibility and planning.

  • The Global Good Fund

    - Align strategy and support growth across organization’s social impact accelerator and its associated consulting practice and venture capital impact fund.

    - Develop new strategy and corresponding tools for evaluation and learning including updated mission, vision, theory of change, logic model, KPIs, and evaluation framework.

    - Lead the transition to an impact-focused framework across all collateral, proposals, and media, leveraging qualitative and quantitative data and narrative. Oversee rebrand, in process.

    - Launch prospect research and an update of development team’s operational systems. Design corporate engagement strategy; cultivate and steward major donors; write select proposals.

“Sharon becomes a true thought partner, listening intently and sharing her objective perspective and deep expertise. Her leadership on strategy and impact measurement are tremendous contributions to our long-term growth.”

CARRIE RICH, CEO + CO-FOUNDER, GLOBAL GOOD FUND; MANAGING PARTNER, GLOBAL IMPACT FUND

Strategy and Planning

  • Strategic planning

  • Market analyses

  • Theories of change and logic models

  • Feasibility plans

Partnerships, Capitalization, and Organizational Development

  • Stakeholder engagement

  • Strategic partnerships

  • Development and capitalization

  • Board engagement

  • Other organizational development needs

Project Design, Management, and Evaluation

  • Project ideation and design

  • Project implementation and oversight 

  • Evaluation frameworks and impact analysis

  • Grant-making strategy and implementation

Marketing and Communications

  • Brand and identity development

  • Website creation

  • Impact reports and cases of support

  • Other strategic communications

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