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What We Do

Our Services

Tactical Planning & Advising
Successful individuals and organizations don't fail to plan. TMC works shoulder to shoulder with our clients to analyze their capacity, understand their limitations, uncover the principles driving their priorities and ultimately deliver a customized plan for advancing their vision.

Project & Program Design
We understand cookie cutters are best used as a baking instrument and have little utility for helping unique individuals and organizations realize their social mission. We help clients balance their capacities and limitations while maintaining a primary focus on cornerstone projects of their organizations. Our objective assessment and constructive feedback offers both a reliable sounding board and plank for continuously improving their foundational work.

Initiative Implementation & Management
Defining and achieving success on important social issues can be equal parts art and science. TMC helps our clients achieve the clarity necessary to focus on a target, define measureable indicators of progress and forge tools that accurately indicate the need for a shift in focus or change in strategy. We can capably move our clients beyond the morass of indecision and "process talk" to action and accomplishment.

Operational Monitoring & Management
Success depends not only on good design and solid implementation but also requires patient and thoughtful guidance. Our team is adept at both the mechanics and intangible dynamics of tracking and mitigating vulnerabilities to the social investments of our clients.

Partnership Analysis
The social challenges of the day are too complex for a single individual or institution to tackle alone; and solutions, once identified, can easily outstrip the resources of a single actor. TMC conducts in-depth analyses of the ever-evolving funding trends, investment patterns, funding interests of individual and institutional philanthropic actors. The products of this research can be customized to help our clients identify possible allies and co-investors supportive of mutual interests.

Resource Mapping & Acquisition
The dimensions of troubling social issues are constantly changing and so too are the strategies and investments being implemented to address these concerns. We are constantly tracking these shifts through our extensive networks and information sources. TMC is able to create customizable reports and summary briefs to inform our clients understanding of the options available for securing the resources necessary to advance their interests.