Tusculum Consulting provides advising services to foundations, donors, organizations, networks, and coalitions to develop strategies that spark impact.
We collaborate closely with clients to cultivate operational strategies, increase effective communications, and build organizational capacity in rapidly evolving landscapes.
Advising Services
Philanthropic Investing
We help donors, foundations, program staff, and others to identify, develop, and implement highly effective grantmaking strategies. We work closely with clients to focus on cultivating unique portfolios, build networks of field partners, and provide initiative and grant monitoring and evaluation in order to leverage outcomes that meet intended board, trustee, and donor goals.
Organizational Development
We have deep experience in facilitating staff and board strategy development and implementation processes; advising on long-term organizational planning; measurement, evaluation, and learning; systems and operations refreshes; and partnerships and network development.
Public and Stakeholder Engagement
We supply expert facilitation services and help to convene and cultivate networks of diverse stakeholders, build alliances, identify and activate key constituencies, and streamline collective resources to maximize political and policy influence. We engage on political landscaping and power analysis, provide policy expertise, and provide assistance with internal planning processes.
Strategic Communications
We provide expertise in strategic communications tactics including: audience identification and segmentation; social and digital media best practices; effective narrative development and framing; and programmatic application of behavioral sciences, analysis, and data to increase communications reach and impact.
Jane Bloch is the Principal at Tusculum Consulting. She has spent the last two decades advancing philanthropic and policy goals, focused particularly on advancing clean energy, stakeholder engagement, strategic communications, and the intersection of civic engagement with issue policy advocacy.
As a Program Officer at the Skoll Global Threats Fund, she managed grant portfolios across multiple issue areas including evidence-based advocacy, field research and experimentation, risk communication, and public engagement. Prior to joining Skoll, Jane advanced efforts to price carbon at the Energy Foundation, where she worked with diverse stakeholders — including business groups, local governments, communities of faith, medical professionals, labor unions, and environmental groups — to promote caps on greenhouse gas emissions. Before that role, she researched and evaluated coal-fired electricity generation facilities for the Northwest Energy Coalition, and supported media and communications outreach at the Pacific Institute.
Jane has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington. Outside of the advising world, Jane is an advocate for children in foster care.
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