Services

At Hillcrest Advisory, our services are tailored to meet the unique needs of each client, but offerings typically fall into the following broad categories:

Data Storytelling Trainings

Nearly every month, we’re doing data storytelling trainings. It could be with a foundation, a government agency, a university research center, or a nonprofit. And the training is always focused on building up an organization’s capacity to communicate data findings. 


Some of these trainings are in-person. Others are by webinar. And some can be through unique college course offerings. Trainings can last anywhere from a few hours to a few months. Typically, they include a presentation by Andy Krackov on lessons learned in communicating with data, as well as an interactive, roll-up-your-sleeves exercise for attendees to practice what they’ve learned.

Direct Technical Assistance to
Community Organizations

We love the opportunity to work with organizations focused on in-the-trenches, community-level initiatives to leverage data for social change. We’ve partnered with accountable communities for health, county coalitions combating overdose, and local collaboratives focused on domestic violence prevention. 

This on-the-ground work typically involves regular consultation with a parent organization sponsoring the work of these collaboratives, as well as hands-on technical assistance with grantees where we’ll meet regularly to achieve a set list of goals. The end product of this direct TA could be a fact sheet we build together, a data story focusing on a personal narrative, or a slideshow – whatever works for that local coalition to harness data to achieve the change they’re after.

For some clients, we’ve even gathered together lessons discussed during the TA as a published guide/manual for use by others, such as with the COPN Guide to Measurement: Data, storytelling, and saving lives, which includes worksheets and Case Studies to help overdose collaboratives across the country leverage data.

Data Interactives, Website,
and Story Builds

We work on numerous projects, some over a multi-year period, to help clients leverage vast quantities of data to achieve specific outcomes. Products of these projects could include: 

  • Data interactives that enable a wide array of users to explore data on their own

  • Data stories to humanize findings and help an organizations highlight what’s important to them

  • Infographics to reach a select audience with information targeted to their needs

These projects allow us to work closely with our clients, learning from what’s been published and refining future communication material accordingly. And through these long-term consultations, we often hire an array of sub-contractors – digital agencies specializing in data interactive, graphic designers, communication firms, and data scientists – to provide specialized services through Hillcrest Advisory’s offerings.

Measure Development

Clients frequently turn to us to help find, catalog, and prioritize what measures to use to support their work. Given our deep experience working with data from publicly available sources, we help our clients pinpoint what measures to use – for example, to assess where a foundation should provide future grantmaking services or to help collaboratives determine what local data are readily available for use on a given subject. 


Would you like to have an initial conversation to discuss your needs? Provide details below, or e-mail info@hillcrestadvisory.com. We would be happy to have a conversation to discuss possibilities.