Foundations

Ready to strengthen your foundation’s impact or optimize your grantmaking strategy?

JLB Advisors offers custom solutions to help you achieve your philanthropic goals. Optimize your foundation’s impact with expert guidance in portfolio strategy, measurement and evaluation, and grantee and community engagement.

We help you create a sustainable model that maximizes your social return on investment while demonstrating your foundation’s impact.

PHILANTHROPIC STRATEGY

Guiding and catalyzing philanthropic strategy to meet social impact and measurable outcomes.

JLB Advisors facilitates funder collaborations and works with families, foundations, and corporations to align values and shape philanthropic programming. We guide donors through complex research and systems to uncover where an infusion of funds would make the greatest impact.

INVESTMENT TO IMPACT

Accelerating Innovation for Social Impact.

We channel philanthropic resources to advance entrenched challenges across communities and improve social equity. We explore innovative models - trust-based philanthropy, impact impact investing, venture philanthropy, and participatory grantmaking.

GRANT MANAGEMENT

A clear and actionable roadmap offering customized guidance, including philanthropic intention setting, strategic planning, and foundation management services.

JLB Advisors will support your RFP lifecycle with an equity lens and pillars for effective community impact. We support strong systems to guide the process - measure and evaluation, board training, community engagement, CRM system, and grantee training.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Unleash the power of communication to share the story of of your investments and your unique the pathways to social impact. We will explore your investments have come to scale.

JLB Advisors works with funders to communicate how investments have come to scale by audience - board, staff, grantees, and community stakeholders. We support leveraging data and research to be translational for the communities you serve. Collaborating across the organization, JLB Advisors will advance your story telling and outcome reporting.

“The future is already here - it’s just not evenly distributed.”

William Gibson