Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - Social Impact (SI) and Nickol Global Solutions (NGS), a WomenOwned Small Business (WOSB), are excited to announce their Small Business Association (SBA) approved strategic partnership that will provide clients with innovative strategies and solutions to increase the impact of their programs through planning, measurement, evaluation, and learning. This partnership will also advance the U.S. Government’s (USG) small business goals via a mentor-protege agreement aimed at strengthening NGS’s management, technical, contracting, business development, and administrative capacities. Together, SI and NGS will deliver high-quality services that support international development and humanitarian assistance initiatives worldwide. The partnership will operate under the name Nickol Impact.
“NGS’ new partnership with Social Impact represents a significant step forward in our mission to enhance accountability and improve the effectiveness of international development programming,” said Kaylin Nickol, CEO of NGS. “Together with Social Impact, NGS will be able to grow and leverage our expertise in monitoring, evaluation, and learning around locally led solutions, benefiting our local partners and donors to design and implement more impactful programs.”
Shiro Gnanaselvam, President and CEO of Social Impact, noted, “We look forward to supporting NGS’ technical and operational growth over the coming years while combining our technical expertise with theirs to enhance the effectiveness of global development and humanitarian assistance programs.”
About Nickol Global Solutions
Nickol Global Solutions (NGS), a growing, SBA-certified woman-owned small business (WOSB), serves as an international development Implementing Partner dedicated to strengthening public institutions and civil society and amplifying the voices of all citizens for more inclusive, accountable societies, using evidence-based approaches. Since its founding in 2017, NGS has emerged as a highly trusted partner to USAID and other development agencies. NGS designs and implements innovative activities and projects that work with individuals, communities, civil society, and governments to address the root causes of inequality, exclusion, and poverty. NGS solutions are context-driven, scalable, and measurable, advancing development objectives – even in the most restrictive or complex operating environments. NGS also serves as a trusted institutional contractor to USAID, providing expert staff across various administrative, operational, financial, managerial, and technical labor categories. In the past three years, NGS has worked in more than 40 countries around the globe, including active and ongoing work in Ukraine, Syria, Georgia, the Dominican Republic, and Côte d’Ivoire.
About Social Impact
Founded in 1996, Social Impact (SI) is a global management consulting firm dedicated to enhancing the effectiveness of government agencies and social sector organizations. SI is a leading provider of services that help organizations gather and use evidence to improve program outcomes. These services include strategic planning and program design, performance and context monitoring, evaluation, research, data science and analysis, learning and adaptive management, and organization and workforce development. SI employs a global team of over 200 evaluators, social science researchers, data scientists, project managers, and business operations support specialists. SI has worked in over 120 countries since its inception, delivering thousands of evaluations, assessments, analytical studies, surveys, and instances of facilitation support and training that have helped its clients to learn from and apply evidence to advance program outcomes and improve people’s lives.
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