What We Do
Fernwood Consulting helps purpose-driven organizations accomplish their work with greater focus and impact.
Strategic Planning
Bring focus to your goals and strategies, and agility to emerging opportunities.
Challenge:
Is your organization struggling to build consensus around new opportunities while being true to your mission?
Approach:
Clarifying your strategic direction through outcome-based and measurable goals will help your organization achieve focused results.
Program Evaluation
Sharpen program design and measure results to deliver the greatest impact on your mission.
Challenge:
Are you unsure how well your programs meet their goals or wonder how to improve program effectiveness?
Approach:
Mapping your theory of change, identifying your top evaluative questions, and measuring progress toward goals will help you invest your resources for optimal impact.
Market Research
Leverage information on how your field is evolving to position yourself for growth.
Challenge:
Are you struggling to make sense of what knowledge is most important amidst a sea of information and endless unknowns?
Approach:
Defining your audiences and focusing on how to solve their problems will help your organization identify opportunities and adopt actionable solutions.
Capacity Building
Cultivate your organization’s knowledge, skills, and resources to adapt and thrive.
Challenge:
Does your organization seek to build staff capacity to ensure strength and sustainability?
Approach:
Providing professional development and training that addresses organizational needs and individual’s concerns optimizes the effectiveness of new learning.
Fundraising & Grant Writing
Communicate your impact and ensure you have the resources to achieve your goals.
Challenge:
Is your organization seeking reliable funding to sustain your critical work?
Approach:
Articulating and demonstrating your organization’s unique role in solving today’s critical problems will leverage resources to support new and ongoing program.
Writing & Copyediting
Use the power of words and writing to express your ideas and ideals effectively and persuasively.
Challenge:
Are you feeling constrained by time, talent, or even writer’s block in preparing and finalizing copy for your projects, reports, websites, and communications?
Approach:
Clear, concise, and correct writing, following your organization’s preferred style, boosts the impact of your work for your intended audiences.
Some of Our Clients and Collaborators
How We’ve Helped Our Clients
Advised and contributed to the framing, writing, and design of a national conservation education strategy for the US Forest Service Conservation Education Program, including assessment reports, an implementation plan, and a monitoring and evaluation plan, in collaboration with NAAEE.
Assessed the readiness to launch and then evaluated a pilot program for middle schoolers from traditionally marginalized communities to become change agents for wildlife conservation.
Reframed the content strategy and copyedited a website dedicated to culturally responsive and equitable evaluation in environmental education, in collaboration with NAAEE.
Facilitated the development of an organizational theory of change for a new and nimble wildlife conservation organization.
Prepared a business plan for digital products, using a collaborative and iterative approach to shared learning and decision making with key stakeholders.
Refined the theory of change and evaluated an international leadership development and grants program for sustainability projects.
Trained and advised emerging international environmental education leaders in program logic, measurement, and evaluation.
Organized and copyedited a guidance document on sustaining successful COVID-adaptations, titled Resilience in Disruptive Times: 6 Environmental Education Program Adaptations That Are Here to Stay.
Collaborated on the design and implementation of an evaluation capacity building effort for zoos and aquariums.
