Resources

Practical thinking for strategy, learning, evidence, and action.

Pinyon & Pine Strategy shares resources for organizations working to make better use of data, evidence, community voice, and learning.

These materials are designed for people who want to ask better questions, make stronger decisions, communicate impact more credibly, and turn
insight into practical action.

Featured Resources.

Click the hyperlinked text below to navigate to resources.

Data Should Help People Decide

A reflection on how organizations can move beyond collecting information for reporting and use data to clarify choices, understand change, and guide action.

Evaluation as a Spectrum

A practical framing for thinking about evaluation not as one fixed product, but as a range of approaches that can support learning, accountability, adaptation, strategy, and storytelling.

Decision-to-Data Map

A simple tool to help teams clarify the decision they need to make, what they need to understand, what evidence would be useful, and how learning will be used.

Putting Your Learning Needs at the Center

A simple tool to help teams clarify the decision they need to make, what they need to understand, what evidence would be useful, and how learning will be used.

Future Resources.

Future resources may explore:

  • Designing learning questions that support real decisions

  • Moving from community listening to action

  • Building right-sized measurement practices

  • Making sense of qualitative data

  • Using evidence to tell credible impact stories

  • Designing feedback loops and closing-the-loop practices

  • Turning strategy into roles, workflows, and routines

  • Facilitating sensemaking across teams and partners

Looking for something specific?

If you are navigating a question about strategy, evaluation,
learning, community insights, or implementation,
you do not need to wait for the perfect resource.

Bring the question. We can clarify the path together.