Loom’s service offerings
Start with the Impact Framework Workshop. If it reframes your work in a meaningful way, the other offers below are next steps we can take together.
Impact Framework Workshop
Start hereStarting out with this reframe, when you don’t know whether you need or could benefit from a full strategic planning effort.
An impact statement: the reframe of your work from your day-to-day activities to the outcome that you exist to create in your community.
A first look at how your current activities may or may not map to your impact statement.
Three sessions, two hours each, in person or remote, over 2 to 3 weeks.
$5,500*
*Estimate based on typical engagement
Strategic Planning
For when you’re ready to figure out what needs to be added, what to remove, and how to run it.
You can absolutely start here. Phase 1 is a deeper version of the Impact Framework Workshop.
The new plan to move forward, in the context of your Impact Framework: what to add, what to remove, and an operations plan to run over the next 3 years, with verification metrics built in so you know if the strategies are working.
Impact
Finding your north star.
Strategy
Barriers, and strategies for removing them.
Operational Design
Who owns what?
Tactics + Resource Strategy
Specific actions. Real costs.
Grounded in:
- Stakeholder interviews from different perspectives to clearly define the needs and the barriers
- Research on interventions known to help remove the barriers identified
“We had island-wide ambitions, but lacked a roadmap to start the journey to making our vision a reality. [A]fter our engagement with Loom, we feel more squarely on a path to achieving our goal.”
Enrico Nardone
Executive Director, Seatuck Environmental Association
“We were directed to think through plans and test them against the goals we set.”
Board member
Depending on the organization, 4 to 6 months total. Strategic planning doesn’t have to be done in one big go.
Continuous Verification: every quarter, Loom comes back to help you step out of the weeds and make sense of your data.
Focused Impact Measurement
If you don’t need planning support right now, this is a good middle ground. Set yourself up to measure whether your day-to-day activities have been, and are, having an impact on the outcome you exist to create.
It also works after the Impact Framework Workshop, as a deep dive into one or two of the metrics that came out of it.
1 to 3 reference measurements for the impact that your day-to-day activities have.
Look back
Have you been having an impact?
Set up
Measure moving forward.
2 to 4 months, depending on the organization.
Strategic Planning, if you want to know why something is the way it is, or how it might change.
Continuous Verification
Many plans fall off after the first year. Loom comes back regularly to help you step out of the weeds and look at the big picture.
A regular read of the data you’re already gathering: what it means, and what to adjust in your plans.
Every quarter, 1 to 4 sessions over 1 to 3 weeks, depending on the organization.
Strategic Planning or Focused Impact Measurement.
What we can offer is not constrained to the listed services. Do you value this approach but not see the scope of work that would be meaningful to you today? Reach out.
Maggie Scholtz
Founder of Loom. Systems engineer; formerly at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and co-founder of First Mode. Based in Seattle, working with organizations across the country.
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Let’s grow your organization’s impact together.
Reach out to have a 30-minute conversation and discuss your organization or your grantees.
