Hillcrest Advisory

Leveraging Data + Stories to Achieve Impact

Transforming overwhelming amounts of data into crisp communication messages can be challenging, especially for organizations working for social change.

Hillcrest Advisory can help your organization create compelling maps and graphs, then bolster key findings with poignant stories, to help you achieve results – for example, policy change, broader awareness of an issue, and more funding.

Our Services

  • Data Storytelling Trainings

    Nearly every month, we conduct data storytelling trainings to build up capacity to communicate with data.

  • Direct Technical Assistance

    We love the opportunity to work with organizations focused on in-the-trenches, community-level work to leverage data for social change.


  • Data Story Creation

    We work on numerous projects, some over a multi-year period, to help clients leverage vast quantities of data to achieve their outcomes.

  • Measure Development

    Clients frequently turn to us to help find, catalog, and prioritize what measures to use to support their work.

Learn More

Data Storytelling Resources: 

  • Lessons learned in communicating data for impact. Watch Here

  • Where to find data on an array of public issues. See here.

  • Email newsletter on data storytelling.

  • See our top recommended tools to help you visualize and tell stories with data. See here.