Helping You Assess Your Human Services Portfolio

Meeting growing needs among your clients while never having enough money to fulfill your mission can be a frustrating experience. Against this backdrop of constrained resources, it’s critical to identify and prioritize the most mission critical programs and services. We help you structure an assessment process to determine where to concentrate your efforts.


 

How We Help You Assess and Align Your Human Services Portfolio

We help you assemble, analyze, and interpret data to assist your leadership team in making difficult decisions about program priorities. This includes working with your program and finance teams to analyze and understand the actual costs of delivering your programs and services, as well as the impact achieved.

  • Assess Programs and Services: We rigorously analyze and disaggregate your data and costs to help ensure equitable outcomes and so you understand which programs and services have the greatest impact and which ones are most financially sustainable.
  • Develop Portfolio Priorities and Action Plans: We help you make data-driven and equitable decisions about your programs–whether to improve, grow, or wind them down. We also analyze the resources—financial, human, and organizational—needed to pursue your priorities and map out a plan to secure them.
  • Performance Measures: We help you identify the most important quantitative and qualitative milestones that make it possible to measure progress toward intended impact and learn as you go.

What the Tennyson Center for Children CEO Says About Working With Bridgespan

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“Bridgespan delivers amazing value for money. The price tag looks big to some, but it is completely worth it. You all unlocked our gaps, secret sauce and helped us frame a future plan that—if we execute and adapt as we go—could change the game for us and for others. Worth every penny!”

Ned Breslin
CEO, Tennyson Center for Children

Nonprofits Bridgespan Has Worked With on Their Program and Services Alignment

We have had the privilege of working with many multiservice organizations helping them align their portfolio to meet the needs of their clients.

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Bridgespan’s Program Portfolio Experts