Cynthesis Consulting
Experienced Perspective
Strategic Thinking
Concrete Results
Cynthesis Consulting offers strategic planning, communications, evaluation, and program development services for a wide range of nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in the U.S. and internationally.
With more than 25 years of experience in the social sector — as a consultant, senior staff person, connector, and thought leader — Cynthia Gibson uses a highly personalized, collaborative, and results-focused approach that values substance, clarity, and efficiency over jargon, complicated processes, and shiny objects.
Services
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Informing direction, process, context, and implementation.
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Whether it’s something new or doing what you’re doing smarter, I’ll make sure you move in the right direction
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Helping you design and conduct evaluations so you know what’s working, what’s not, and where to iterate
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Blending good old fashioned picking up the phone with digital media approaches to design strategies that let your message be heard
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Talent at all levels benefits from one-on-one attention to build skills and unleash potential
Check out a book I co-edited that was just published by Georgetown University Press:
Participatory Grantmaking in Philanthropy
How Democratizing Decision-Making Shifts Power to Communities
Cynthia M. Gibson, Chris Cardona, Jasmine McGinnis Johnson, and David Suárez, Editors"This is an immensely useful and inspiring resource for those seeking to make philanthropy more equitable and inclusive. The editors have curated wide-ranging contributions that show how participatory grantmaking can center the love of humankind and kindle the spark of human generosity that ought to lie at the heart of philanthropy."—Beth Breeze, Director, Centre for Philanthropy, University of Kent
As a consultant, Gibson has worked with scores of foundations and nonprofits, including the Gates, Mott, Ford, Hewlett, Bloomberg, Robert Wood Johnson, Goldman Sachs, Oak, Barr, and New York Foundations; the JM Kaplan and Haas, Jr., Funds; Candid/The Foundation Center; National Council of Nonprofits; Philanthropy New York; Fidelity Charitable Trustees’ Initiative, and numerous others.
Archived periodic emails that Cynthia sends to her subscribers
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