Hello and Welcome.
We’re here to help mission driven organizations do their work better, so communities benefit.
We’re your partners for program evaluation and facilitation.
“We all agreed we would love to work with Lily again...It is incredibly meaningful to have worked with a consultant that validates the importance of our mission so authentically and wants to see us succeed.”
— Michelle Eckman, Associate Director
Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Justice
We partner with nonprofits and public agencies committed to healthy and vibrant communities.
Our partners are changing the food system, supporting families, and working toward a more just and sustainable society.
Align your strategy and evaluation to advance your mission.
Tackling complex community challenges while keeping up with development needs can feel overwhelming—especially for busy nonprofit leaders.
That’s why having a clear, aligned strategy and a right-sized system for ongoing monitoring, learning, and evaluation is essential. It helps you stay focused, make informed decisions, and move the needle on the issues that matter most in your community.
Good news! You don’t have to figure it all out alone.
At LAS Visions, we support nonprofits and other mission-first organizations in Montana and beyond to take a step back, clarify their long-term vision, and build practical strategies and evaluation systems.
Then, when you’re ready, we roll up our sleeves and work alongside you to implement tools and processes that actually work—for your goals, your team, and your capacity.
Our Services
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Evaluation is a broad term that can encompass ongoing monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) for programmatic decision-making, improvement, and fundraising, and more formal outcome and impact evaluations and reporting.
We are passionate about helping organizations cut through the confusion and build ‘right-sized’ MEL systems that meet ongoing needs across the organization. We work with teams to identify needs, set-up systems, and support ongoing use.
We’re also available if you need an outcome or impact evaluation, for grant reporting, and development of logic models, and Theories of Change.
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When done well, strategic plans provide clear goal posts and are an opportunity to strategize with a wide range of interest-holders.
We specialize in highly participatory strategic planning processes that include with your staff, BoD, partners, and program recipients. We also stand out in our focus on measurement–we bring our expertise in evaluation to ensure your plan is actionable and measurable, no more strategic plans collecting figurative dust.
Our participatory methods include Liberating Structures, Emergent Strategy (a philosophy and framework), ACRE, and Technology of Participation (ToP).
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A teacher at heart, we love offering support to build your team’s capacity to do ongoing learning, evaluation and equity work. We can work alongside team members to set-up systems, offer staff training, and facilitate ongoing workgroups and committees to keep the project on track. Past workshops and capacity work has included:
Data strategy
Data equity
Health equity
Logic model creation
Theory of Change creation
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Telling a compelling story that connects the dots from invested resources, day-to-day work and desired outcomes is more important than ever, yet many organizations don’t have an aligned, ‘right fit’ data strategy to guide their work and tell their story. A DSA is an efficient, yet deep process where we assess your organization’s current data processes, data needs, and alignment with strategic vision and program goals. The end result is actionable recommendations, so the organization has a roadmap to implement a clear and aligned data strategy.
This is an entry-level offer, that is lower-cost than most other types of engagements with us.
“Lily provided outstanding strategic support and guidance for our board and staff.
I have worked in nonprofit services for over 20 years and I can say that Lily Sussman is one of the best. Her thoughtful leadership in supporting our mission’s work was outstanding. She met us where we were and gave us tools to launch visionary thinking.”
Our Clients
Nonprofits
Our expertise in public health, paired with nonprofit leadership experience makes us uniquely positioned to understand and support nonprofits navigate the specific challenges they face. Our clients include early stage, and well-funded national nonprofits.
We have context expertise in: behavioral health, child welfare, education and food systems.
Foundations and Membership Organizations
Foundations and membership organizations can make a huge difference by partnering to create accessible opportunities for those in their network. We can provide training and technical assistance so your grantees or members have the support they need when it comes to creating actionable strategic plans, learning and program evaluation.
Government:
We are proud to parter with public agencies at the federal, state and local level. We are a certified Women Owned Small Business (WOSB). Our capability statement is available here.
Subcontracting and Partnerships:
We also work with other consultants and larger firms. If you think we are a good fit for your next big project. Please get in touch!