A renewal or major proposal depends on claims current measurement cannot yet support.
For nonprofit leaders
Make measurement useful to the decisions your nonprofit has to make.
Prova helps executive and program leaders determine what they can responsibly say about results, identify the questions that remain open, and build a measurement approach their team can actually sustain.
For a renewal, board question, program redesign, expansion, or strategy decision.
When Prova can help
Bring the decision your current reporting cannot answer.
Leadership must decide whether to continue, expand, redesign, or stop a program.
Reporting absorbs staff time but leaves program leaders without clearer direction.
A growing program can no longer rely mainly on staff knowledge and case-by-case learning.
The program has changed, but its theory of change or measurement has not kept up.
A board or leadership question has no single report designed to answer it.
The decision gap
Use the information you already have to decide what to do next.
Reporting asks
What happened during the grant?
A decision asks
What should we continue, change, expand, or stop?
Your team may already collect substantial program data and prepare careful grant reports. Those materials may describe what happened without helping leaders decide what to continue, change, expand, or stop.
Prova's proprietary evidence systems keep important statements connected to their sources, make gaps and exceptions visible, and direct consequential questions to accountable professional review. Frontier models provide breadth and speed inside those systems; named people remain responsible for the conclusion.
Choose the kind of help your decision needs.
Start with the decision your team needs to make—not a method or deliverable. These are three distinct Prova offerings, and Prova will recommend the smallest useful scope.
AnswersNeed to know what you can responsibly say now?Find out what your nonprofit can responsibly say about its results. Prova reads across years of files, reports, notes, feedback, research, and data to show what your existing information can answer, where the answer becomes uncertain, and what is still unknown.Possible output: Claims and Sources Map — see which claims are backed by which sourcesSee what your current information can—and cannot—answerClose example
What you may receive
Claims and Sources Map
Claims and Sources MapIllustrative
What the current material supports
Every claim the organization already makes, set against what is actually behind it.
| The claim | Support | What it rests on |
|---|---|---|
| 85% of enrolled participants complete the program | strong | Attendance logs and program files, 2022–2024 |
| Employer partners value the placements | partial | Three partner interviews; no wider follow-up |
| Participants leave with more confidence | thin | Described in staff notes; never measured directly |
| The program leads to lasting employment | absent | No contact with participants after they exit |
absentthinpartialstrong
ThroughlineNeed to test how a program is expected to produce results?Test the assumptions behind a program before you expand, redesign, or defend it. Prova examines the connections from activities to change, links them to relevant research, and separates what is supported elsewhere from what must still be learned locally.Possible output: Research-Linked Theory of Change — see how the program is expected to create results and where assumptions remainSee how the assumptions behind your program hold upClose example
What you may receive
Research-Linked Theory of Change
Research-Linked Theory of ChangeIllustrative
Which links outside research supports—and which the program still needs to test
The same support scale, applied to the links between steps rather than to finished claims.
Young people complete a 12-week training placement
strong
Structured placements of this length repeatedly show skill gains across a wide research base.
They gain skills employers are hiring for
partial
Research is mixed on whether skill gains convert to offers. The difference tracks the local labour market, not the training.
They find steady work within six months
thinMust be learned locally
Few studies follow households this far, and none are from a comparable setting.
Their households become more financially stable
absentthinpartialstrong
MeasurementNeed to decide what your team should measure next?Build only the measurement your team will actually use. Prova begins with the decisions the information must serve, then works backward toward focused measures, feasible routines, clear responsibilities, and useful review points.Possible output: Measurement Architecture — see what to measure, how to collect it, and who will use itSee which measures are worth your team’s timeClose example
What you may receive
Measurement Architecture
Measurement ArchitectureIllustrative
Which measures earn the time they take
Each measure the team already collects, placed by staff time and how far it moves a real decision. Both are the team's judgment—not a calculated score.
Collected todayCandidate to stopMissing, worth adding
The same measures as a table
| Measure | Staff time | Decision value | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly attendance | 20 | 70 | Collected today |
| Employer feedback survey | 33 | 80 | Collected today |
| Exit interview | 54 | 68 | Collected today |
| Staff case notes | 66 | 58 | Collected today |
| Satisfaction star rating | 18 | 22 | Collected today |
| Intake demographics form | 42 | 34 | Collected today |
| Weekly activity log | 72 | 11 | Candidate to stop |
| Quarterly funder narrative | 90 | 20 | Candidate to stop |
| Six-month follow-up | 62 | 94 | Not collected today |
Your engagement will be shaped around the decision you need to make. Prova will recommend the smallest piece of work that can give you a useful, responsible answer.
What the work should leave behind
Leave with a decision—and a practical way to keep learning.
The result may be a usable answer now, a narrower claim, a changed program, a focused open question, or the smallest practical measurement step fitted to the team's capacity.
Discuss a nonprofit decisionDirect and foundation-funded work
Keep control of the question, the materials, and what gets shared.
Your team sets the question and decides how the work will be used.
Prova works directly with your materials, decision, and measurement needs.
A foundation may fund the work without owning your question.
Your organization chooses whether to participate, selects the materials, and decides what may be shared.
Why Prova can work across more of what you already know
Examine more information without losing the sources, limits, or human judgment.
The organizing layer
Prova's proprietary evidence systems
Organize the question, permitted record—the materials agreed for the work—standards, source connections, challenge, review, and decision path.
Frontier AI within the systems
Performs bounded reading, retrieval, extraction, comparison, tracing, synthesis, drafting, and monitoring.
Accountable people
Frame consequential questions, interpret context, challenge the record, judge what it supports, approve conclusions, and decide what happens next.
A practical first step
Bring one decision your team needs to make.
Bring the decision and the materials you already know exist. The first conversation will establish what the work needs to answer and whether Prova is the right fit. No file upload or formal brief is required.
Discuss a nonprofit decision