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

  • 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

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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.

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