October 30, 2025 | By: Jessica Xiomara García
In the wake of growing challenges to racial equity work, organizations need more than good intentions; they need tools that drive meaningful change. The Organizational Equity Reflection Tool (OERT) offers a practical framework that helps you weave equity into the very fabric of how you operate. This blog highlights the Equity Learning Lab’s OERT and explores how organizations can move from curiosity to embedding more equitable practices into core systems and culture. Whether you're just beginning or deep into your equity journey, see how the OERT can help you create meaningful, measurable progress.
July 30, 2025 | By: Allison Sponseller and Annie Lindsey
LFA has partnered with many nonprofit organizations that need a custom-made dashboard to support them to easily understand, visualize, and access key up-to-date data points. In this blog, we highlight some key principles that we have employed to develop dashboards that add value to organizations’ work, showcasing our partnership with Safe & Sound as an example.
June 12, 2025 | By Tomika Rodriguez and Elba Garcia
In Learning for Action’s cohort-based capacity building (CBCB) work, developing or refining a nonprofit’s theory of change is a foundational step. This process helps organizations clarify their assumptions, define core components, and set S.M.A.R.T. outcomes. A theory of change acts as the organizational DNA—guiding not only program delivery and evaluation but also governance, communications, and strategic planning.
Especially in times of uncertainty, a well-articulated theory of change becomes a stabilizing force. It enables nonprofits to reassess assumptions, adapt strategies, and realign with evolving community needs. As highlighted in the “Lean into Learning” webinar, revisiting this framework can illuminate new pathways, strengthen partnerships, and support resource development. Ultimately, a theory of change is both a roadmap and a compass—helping organizations stay mission-focused while remaining flexible and responsive to change.
By Elba Garcia
In this article, we dig deeper into our coaching practice to build evaluation and learning capacity, and highlight the work one of our coaches, Elba Garcia, did with Kendra Fujino O’Donoghue, Founder/Executive Director, and Michela Chatmon, Program Director, from Envision Your Pathway (EYP) – a youth development nonprofit that participated in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funded Impact Lab. Elba shares lessons from this coaching engagement so that other organizations can apply them on their ongoing evaluation and learning journeys, whether working with a coach or not.
By Tomika Rodriguez
This blog is the first in a series detailing Learning for Action’s Cohort Based Capacity Building (CBCB) Approach. Stay tuned for Part 2 on the coaching experience of a recent participating nonprofit and Part 3 on how a strategic framework that is a cornerstone for our CBCB approach can also be useful for focusing during uncertain times.
