Smarter Learning Group

The Smarter Learning Group is a national consulting firm that helps organizations build stronger partnerships, attract more investment, and achieve better results in improving educational outcomes for low-income children across the United States. We add value for our clients by delivering the following types of services: Planning & Executing Initiatives We help clients create and execute strategic plans that are ambitious, achievable, and actionable. We specialize in helping non-profit organizations and public agencies expand their services, work more closely with school districts, and pursue new approaches to scaling and sustaining their work. We advise CEOs, executive directors, and senior leadership of non-profits and foundations. Our clients recognize the value of our thought partnership, confidential guidance, data-driven approach, and ability to think creatively and deeply about the challenges they face. Building Collaborative, Cross-Sector Partnerships We help clients cultivate relationships and develop new approaches to attract additional investment. We support the development of innovative public-private partnerships between and among federal, state and local government agencies, foundations, and other private-sector investors. We have particular expertise in building school-community partnerships involving a wide range of organizations working across the cradle-to-career continuum. We help our clients refine their message, align programmatic initiatives, improve results, secure funding, and strengthen their overall case for support. Creating Learning & Action Networks We understand how to build, manage, and leverage the power of networks of organizations and individuals to solve problems. We help our clients accelerate progress, expand their influence, crowd-source ideas, and build bigger constituencies for what they offer. We provide leadership and management to solutions-focused campaigns in education. We help our clients make measurable progress on some of the most persistent and seemingly intractable problems that our society faces. We have a proven track record of success in helping communities and organizations improve outcomes related to early school success, afterschool and summer learning, and high school graduation.