Do you feel the limits of how you’re currently working?

PRISM works with leaders in philanthropy and civil society who have earned their place and sense their current ways of working aren’t enough.

Whether you’re an organisation at a turning point, a practitioner at the edge, or a leader building new collective practice, we can help you do the hard thinking, and with that clarity chart the way ahead.

  • "The PRISM team helped us develop a strategy that was ambitious in its vision but practical in its implementation design."

    Shreya Basu, then-Deputy Director and Regional Lead Asia Pacific, Open Government Partnership

  • "Wow, what a powerful framework for learning - being in the hot seat was like nothing I've experienced before."

    Kate Clugstone

  • "Nothing beats having an embedded learning partner – who knows us, our long term vision and how we work but also is continually helping us step back and examine our progress, assumptions and practice. "

    Associate Professor Ruth McCausland, Director of the Yuwaya Ngarra-li Initiative

  • "The team have a rare talent for traversing the distinct universes of grassroots community work, high-level policy work and academic research."

    ​Associate Professor Kate Macdonald, Melbourne University

  • “I’ve not worked with an external partner that understands us as an organisation as well, and we work with many. The value far exceeded what I expected…

    – Kristy Graham & Nicole Yazbeck-Martin, Australian Sustainable Finance Institute

  • ...You gave us language we didn’t have. We knew who we were, but we couldn’t articulate our value, and you gave us the words to do that. Across the whole team, it opened up a genuinely different way of thinking... and then you reflected it back in such an impactful way.”

    – Kristy Graham & Nicole Yazbeck-Martin, Australian Sustainable Finance Institute

Ways to work with us

  • Springboard

    Something needs to shift. You’re not sure what. Springboard is a focused, bounded engagement to surface what you already know and name what’s getting in the way.

  • Throughline

    For organisations ready to do the sustained work. A 1–2 year learning partnership that builds the capacity to think differently — and keeps doing so long after we’ve left the room.

  • Spectrum

    For leaders working across a shared system or field who need to develop their capacity to lead together, not just alongside each other.

  • Illuminate

    An Action Learning Set for senior leaders operating where the questions outrun the available thinking. Small groups. Regular rhythm. The thinking matches the ambition.

  • PRISM Gathering

    Bring the ideas, practice, and people of the for-purpose sector into the same room, working in breadth to introduce thinking, build community, and extend practice for leaders and practitioners who want to connect.

  • Ember

    The ongoing relationship that keeps the thread alive. For organisations and leaders who have been through a PRISM engagement and don’t want to lose what they found.