SKA + Associates, LLC is a boutique consulting firm that specializes in needs assessments and strategic planning, program evaluation, and communications for public and nonprofit organizations. We embrace data and its value to telling an organization’s story, communicating its impact, and identifying ways to improve upon its work. We are at our best in service to organizations working to improve the earth and the lives of its inhabitants.

Since 2013, we have helped more than 80 public, nonprofit, and private organizations across the country work to reach their potential.

Our philosophy as a firm is to be lean, results-focused, efficient, and effective for our clients. In working with public and nonprofit institutions, we maintain a strong commitment to fiscal responsibility and accountability to the stakeholders of the organizations we assist. We examine all aspects of projects through an equity lens.

Strategic planning

We are planners who embrace an outcomes-driven approach. Like other mission-driven organizations, public and nonprofit organizations will be most successful when they maximize their relevance to those they serve. Thoughtful engagement with stakeholder groups and analysis of available data provides context to develop informed planning tools.

needs assessment and evaluation

We are grounded in our belief that it is imperative for public and nonprofit organizations to have a focused understanding of the roles they play within the communities they serve. The success of our work stems from our ability to design customized evaluation tools, effectively implement them, and analyze results intended to inform decision-making.

GRANTS STRATEGY

We believe it is essential that nonprofit organizations have a strategic approach to grants management and how grant funding plays a role in their capacity to serve their constituencies. Since 2013, we have secured more than $9 million in grant funding for small to mid-size organizations operating within the health and human services sector of the nonprofit industry.

communications

We help organizations review their past successes and shortcomings, analyze current communications trends, and identify strategies to improve communications tools and public relations strategies to best present the messages their target audiences need to hear.