Smith Research and Strategy is an insights-to-action firm with expertise in evaluation, research, and strategic planning to support public health systems, organizations, and community initiatives. We partner with organizations to turn data into actionable improvement plans, and design solutions grounded in community experience to improve health and well-being.
What do we do?
Communities, organizations, and public systems are often asked to make complex decisions with limited time, fragmented data, and insufficient capacity for meaningful engagement. Research, evaluation, and strategic planning can be disconnected from implementation, resulting in strategies that fail to reflect community realities, address inequities, or translate into sustainable systems change.
Insight
We help organizations make sense of complex systems through meaningful research, evaluation, and strategic analysis. This includes conducting needs assessments, mixed-methods evaluations, data synthesis, and community engagement processes that elevate lived experience and generate actionable insights for decision-makers.
Impact
We partner with agencies, organizations, and communities to translate findings into practical strategies that strengthen programs, improve systems coordination, and advance equitable outcomes. Our work supports implementation planning, performance measurement, systems improvement, and collaborative decision-making grounded in real-world needs.
Innovation
We support the development of forward-thinking solutions that reimagine how systems serve children, families, and communities. From strategic planning to designing coordinated systems and frameworks to facilitating cross-sector collaboration and continuous learning, we help partners move from ideas to sustainable systems change.
Partners and Clients
We partner with government agencies, nonprofits, foundations, and cross-sector coalitions working to strengthen the systems that support children, families, and communities. Our partners turn to us to assess complex needs and systems, set a clear strategic direction, identify and overcome barriers to progress, and evaluate whether their efforts are achieving meaningful impact - bringing rigorous research, practical strategy, and an implementation-focused perspective to complex human services challenges.
