Office Hours
Your team is doing the work. But when did they last have time to examine it?
I’ve heard it from organization staff more times than I can count: They know what needs to be updated, they know their programs could be stronger, but there’s never a protected moment to actually sit down and do that work together.
Then a new funding opportunity arrives and they’re scrambling to articulate their impact. A funder asks for data and the team realizes their tools aren’t capturing what they need. A staff retreat comes and goes with great energy but no concrete outputs. And the cycle continues.
As a consultant, I’ve spent years working with organizations in the sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice space — and beyond — and one of my deepest professional commitments is helping organizations become more data-driven on their own terms. Not because a funder requires it, but because understanding your data makes your programs stronger, your strategy sharper, and your team more confident in the work you’re doing every day.
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About Office Hours
What is Office Hours?
Office Hours is a facilitated, team-based working session designed for small nonprofit teams and program officers who need protected time to think strategically about their programs, services, funding, and data practices.
It’s not a traditional training where you sit and listen, and it’s not a consulting contract where I do the work for you. Office Hours is somewhere in between — you come prepared to work, and we build something together. By the end of the session, your team walks away with a concrete strategy and tools you can embed into your day-to-day work immediately.
Who is the ideal organization for Office Hours?
The ideal participant for Office Hours is an organization that is:
- BIPOC-led
- Woman of color-led
- Woman-led
- Youth-led
and whose programming and services center BIPOC communities, women of color, girls of color, and / gender expansive youth.
The ideal organization’s work is intersectional and examines how race, gender, age, ability, and socioeconomic status impact a person’s ability to access the services and care they need.
Generally, my clients have worked in these areas:
- Community and individual safety
- Education
- Environmental justice
- Food security and access
- Gender justice
- Housing
- Mental health
- Philanthropy
- Policy analysis
- Sexual health
- Racial justice
- Reproductive health, rights, and justice
- Youth education and advocacy
How is Office Hours different from hiring you for a consulting contract?
In a standard consulting contract, I produce work on your behalf — a research process, an evaluation, a strategic plan, a meeting facilitation, or program design.
In Office Hours, your team is in the room doing the work alongside me.
You bring your programs, your data, and your context. I bring the framework, the facilitation, and the expertise. The result is something your team helped create and actually understands how to use — without depending on an outside consultant to maintain it.
Is Office Hours virtual or in-person?
Office Hours sessions are held virtually via Zoom.
If you’re interested in an in-person session, contact me to discuss availability and any additional costs.
How many staff members can participate? What’s the ideal team size?
There’s no set limit on the number of participants, but everyone in the room should share a common thread. Office Hours is designed for teams who are working on the same challenge, not just the same organization.
For nonprofit teams, that might mean your entire programs department comes together to strengthen the M&E frameworks across your signature programs. For a philanthropic team, it might mean a group of program officers with different portfolio areas who need to develop a shared grantmaking or portfolio review strategy.
What matters isn’t that everyone is working on the same program or funding area — it’s that everyone has a stake in the shared output you’re building together. A session works best when participants can contribute their specific context while working toward something that applies across all of their work.
If you’re unsure whether your team is the right fit, contact me before booking and we can talk it through.
Tracks & What Happens During the Session
What are the tracks?
Program / Service Monitoring & Evaluation
(Open to any nonprofit regardless of issue area)
Whether your team is building an M&E framework from scratch or strengthening what you already have, this track gives you dedicated time to examine how your programs and services are being measured — and whether those measures actually reflect your work.
This track is a fit if your organization is:
- Launching a new program or service and need an M&E framework before implementation
- Running existing programs or services that have never had a formalized evaluation framework
- Preparing for a funding application and needs to sharpen your outcomes and metrics
- Sitting on existing M&E tools you’re underutilizing or unsure how to update
What your team will leave with:
- An M&E plan for each program or service, including evaluation questions tailored to your specific work and guidance on developing new questions as your programs evolve
- An assessment of your current M&E tools — surveys, data collection systems, templates — and concrete recommendations for how to use them more effectively
- Updated or newly created templates you can implement immediately, including logic models, interview protocols, and work plans
Reproductive Justice in Program & Curriculum Design
For organizations already working within a Reproductive Justice framework
This track is for teams who have done the foundational work of understanding Reproductive Justice and are ready to go deeper — examining how RJ is actually showing up in their programs, services, and curricula, and where there’s room to strengthen it.
A note on prerequisite knowledge: Participants should come with a foundational understanding of the Reproductive Justice framework. If your team hasn’t yet had an RJ 101 training, I recommend starting with SisterSong’s training and leadership development offerings before booking this track.
During the session, each staff member presents their program or curriculum and we analyze together where and how RJ principles are present — and where they could go further. This isn’t about checking boxes. It’s about honest, generative examination of your work and building a concrete strategy for deepening your RJ practice.
This track is a fit if your organization is:
- Running existing programs you want to assess through an RJ lens
- Designing a new program or curriculum you want grounded in RJ from the start
- Ready to move beyond RJ as a talking point and embed it into how your programs actually operate
What your team will leave with:
- An RJ assessment of each program or curriculum
- Concrete recommendations for strengthening RJ indicators across your work
- A prioritized strategy for embedding RJ more deeply into program design and implementation
Reproductive Justice in Research and Evaluation
For organizations already working within a Reproductive Justice framework
This track is for teams who want their research and evaluation practices to reflect the same values that guide their programs. Too often, evaluation is treated as something done to communities rather than with them. This track is built on a different premise — that rigorous, RJ-grounded research and evaluation is itself an act of alignment with the communities you serve.
A note on prerequisite knowledge: Participants should come with a foundational understanding of the Reproductive Justice framework. If your team hasn’t yet had an RJ 101 training, we recommend starting with SisterSong’s training and leadership development offerings before booking this track.
This track is a fit if your organization is:
- Designing a new research study or evaluation and wants it grounded in RJ principles from the start
- Sitting on existing evaluation or research findings and needs support making sense of them and translating them into program or strategy updates
- Questioning whether your current data collection practices — who you ask, what you ask, and how — truly reflect your RJ values
What your team will leave with:
- An RJ-informed research or evaluation plan, or a revised version of an existing one
- RJ-grounded evaluation questions that center the communities you serve
- A findings synthesis with concrete recommendations for updating your programs, curricula, or organizational strategy
Portfolio Strategy for Funders
Open to funders regardless of issue area
This track is for philanthropic staff who need protected time to step back and think strategically about their grantmaking — whether that means examining an entire portfolio together or thinking through the strategy behind a single funding area.
This track is a fit if your team is:
- A group of program officers with different portfolio areas who need a shared framework for how you review, audit, and make decisions across your grantmaking
- A single program officer ready to examine whether your portfolio is structured and invested in the way you intend
- Questioning whether your grantmaking practices — how you find grantees, how you onboard and offboard them, how you balance longstanding relationships with new investments — reflect your strategic priorities and equity commitments
What your team will leave with:
- A portfolio review framework tailored to your grantmaking priorities
- A grantmaking audit tool your team can use independently to assess equity, alignment, and impact across your investments
- A concrete strategy document addressing the specific portfolio questions your team brought to the session — including how you identify and vet grantees, how you create balance between longstanding and emerging grantees, and whether your investments are moving the needle in your focus areas
How do I know which track is right for my organization?
Start with where you are right now.
If you’re an organization asking “are our programs designed and measured the way they should be?” — that’s Program / Service Monitoring & Evaluation.
If you’re an organization already working within a Reproductive Justice framework and asking “is RJ actually showing up in our programs and curricula, and how do we go deeper?” — that’s Reproductive Justice in Program & Curriculum Design.
If you’re an organization already working within a Reproductive Justice framework and asking “does our research and evaluation practice reflect our RJ values, or are we sitting on findings we don’t know how to use?” — that’s Reproductive Justice in Research and Evaluation.
If you’re a philanthropic team asking “are we grantmaking the way we intend to, and do we have a shared framework for how we review and invest across our portfolio?” — that’s Portfolio Strategy for Funders.
Not sure where to start? Contact me before booking and we’ll figure it out together.
Do we need prior knowledge of the Reproductive Justice framework to participate?
It depends on the track.
Program / Service Monitoring & Evaluation and Portfolio Strategy for Funders do not require any prior knowledge of the Reproductive Justice framework and are open to any organization or funder regardless of issue area.
Reproductive Justice in Program & Curriculum Design and Reproductive Justice in Research and Evaluation do require foundational RJ knowledge. Participants in these tracks should come having already received an RJ 101 training from an established organization. I recommend SisterSong’s training and leadership development offerings as a starting point if your team hasn’t been there yet.
Our organization isn’t in the Sexual Health and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice space — can we still participate?
Yes!
Program / Service Monitoring & Evaluation and Portfolio Strategy for Funders are designed for organizations and funders across any issue area. If your work is in youth development, mental health, housing, climate justice, or anything else — you’re welcome here.
We only have one program. Is Office Hours still a good fit?
Absolutely!
A single program can be more than enough to fill a productive working session. In fact, having one program allows your team to go deeper rather than wider — examining your design, measurement, and alignment with real focus and intention. A one-day session is typically the right fit for organizations with one program.
Do you have examples of what we can accomplish within a 1-day session versus a 2-day session?
Of course! Here are examples by track. When you sign up, we’ll go over your needs and will craft the session together.
Program / Service Monitoring & Evaluation
1-Day Session
- A programs team with one established program reviews their existing data collection tools, identifies gaps, and builds out an M&E plan with evaluation questions tailored to their program
- A nonprofit preparing for a new funding opportunity develops a logic model and set of evaluation questions that clearly articulate their program’s intended outcomes and impact
2-Day Session
- A programs team with three signature programs audits their existing M&E tools across all programs, builds individualized M&E plans for each, and develops a share organizational frameworks for how they collect and use data going forward
- A nonprofit launching two new program simultaneously develops M&E frameworks for both, identifies overlapping data collection opportunities, and creates templates they can replicate as the organization grows
Reproductive Justice in Program & Curriculum Design
1-Day Session
- A programs team with one established program presents their curriculum and conducts a deep RJ assessment, identifying where RJ principles are showing up strongly and where there are opportunities to go deeper
- An organization designing a new program works through how to embed RJ principles into the program’s stricture, activities and intended outcomes from the group up
2-Day Session
- A programs team with multiple programs presents each program, conducts an RJ assessment across all of them, and develops a prioritized strategy for strengthening RJ integration organization-wide
- An organization with both existing and new programs assesses RJ integration across current work while simultaneously designing a new program or curriculum grounded in RJ from the start
Reproductive Justice in Research & Evaluation
1-Day Session
- An organization with existing evaluation findings works through what the data is telling them about one service and develops a concrete strategy for using those findings to strengthen the service’s design and delivery
- A programs team with data findings across multiple programs synthesizes what the data is telling them organization-wide and develops a strategy for embedding those findings into program updates and organizational learning
2-Day Session
- An organization designing a new research study works through how to group their research questions, data collection methods, and analysis approach in RJ principles
- A programs team both design a new RJ-grounded research study and develops a plan for translating exiting evaluation findings into immediate program improvements
Portfolio Strategy for Funders
1-Day Session
- A team of program officers develops a shared framework for how they identify, vet, and onboard new grantees that creates consistency across a portfolio with multiple focus areas
- A single program officer steps back to examine whether their portfolio is balanced between longstanding grantees and emerging grantees and develops a concrete strategy for diversifying their investments
2-Day Session
- A philanthropic team conducts a full portfolio audit that examines grantee diversity, equity in funding distribution, and whether their investments are moving the needle; they also develop a comprehensive grant making strategy going forward
- A program officer team develops both a shared portfolio review framework and an onboarding and off-boarding strategy that reflects their equity commitments and grant making priorities
Preparation & What Happens After Office Hours
What’s the Office Hours process?
Every Office Hours session — regardless of track or length — follows a three-phase process:
Phase 1: Pre-Session Planning
We schedule a planning call to discuss your team’s goals, expectations, and what you’re bringing to the session. This is where I learn your context, ask clarifying questions, and begin building your customized framework and session design.
Phase 2: The Working Session
I facilitate your team through a structured working session—teaching, applying, and building together. The session is guided by the framework I’ve developed for your specific work, while remaining flexible enough to follow where the work takes us.
Phase 3: Post-Session
After the session, I meet again with the person who requested the booking to debrief, gather feedback, and review any documents we created together. Within one week, you’ll receive a written session recap. Your engagement also includes a structured 30-60-90 day follow-through:
- 30 days: A check-in email to see how implementation is going
- 60 days: A short virtual call to discuss progress and troubleshoot any challenges
- 90 days: A brief survey to capture what’s working, what’s shifted, and what’s next
All of this is included in your session fee.
What does my team need to bring or prepare before the session?
After you book, we’ll schedule an intake call at least two weeks before your session. During that call, you’ll share what your team is bringing — your programs, services, data, existing tools, and goals for the session. I use that information to research, build your customized framework, and design the session around your specific work.
On the day of the session, your team should come prepared to participate fully and ready to work. This isn’t a passive learning experience. The more your team is physically present and engages, the stronger what you build together will be. Specific preparation guidance will be shared after your intake call based on your track and session goals.
How will we receive our session outputs?
Within one week of your session, you’ll receive a written recap along with any documents created during our time together, including whiteboards, frameworks, and templates. You’ll also be invited to participate in a post-session meeting with me to go over your recap to identify any areas that need clarity and additional support. From there, your team has everything you need to implement what we built independently.
I’ll also check in within 60 days to see how your team is doing. If you find yourself wanting to go deeper on another track or bring me back for a follow-up session down the line, the door is always open.
Booking & Payment
How much does Office Hours cost?
Office Hours is offered at a flat fee:
- One-day session: $3,500
- Two-day session: $6,500
The flat fee covers your session prep meeting, my prep work, my session facilitation and written recap, and our post-session meeting. There are no per-person costs.
Are there additional costs for in-person sessions?
Office Hours sessions are held virtually by default.
If your organization prefers an in-person session, travel and accommodations will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Please contact me before booking to discuss.
How far in advance do I need to book?
Sessions require booking at least two weeks in advance to allow time for your intake call and my preparation.
Earlier is always better — availability fills up and the more lead time we have, the more tailored your session will be.
How does payment work?
Once your session is confirmed, you’ll receive an invoice.
Payment is due in full before the session begins. ACH bank transfer is preferred, though credit card is also accepted.
Can a funder pay for a grantee organization to participate?
Absolutely!
If you’re a program officer who wants to invest in a grantee’s capacity, you can pay on their behalf and I’ll work with you and the grantee on scheduling and planning. Just reach out before booking so we can make sure the right people are in the room and the session is designed with the grantee’s specific needs in mind.
What is your cancellation or rescheduling policy?
If you need to reschedule, contact me at least one week before your session date and we’ll find a new date that works.
If you need to cancel, the following refund policy applies:
- Cancellations made more than two weeks before the session: 75% refund
- Cancellations made within two weeks but more than one week before the session: 50% refund
- Cancellations made within one week of the session: 25% refund
If I need to reschedule, we’ll work together to find a new date. If I need to cancel entirely, you’ll receive a full refund.