TOOL

Field Building Tool

Understand where your field stands, and what it needs to move forward.

This tool helps you visualize the level of development of a collective agenda, identify areas for strengthening, and guide actions that can drive greater collective impact.

Explore the Tool What is it?

Mission

Provide funders and collectives with a rigorous and accessible way to understand how their field is evolving, measure the progress of their collective efforts, and make strategic decisions to amplify their impact.

IDEAL FOR

Grantmakers

Collectives and networks

Public charities

Multisectoral alliances

What is it?

Field Building Tool is designed to measure the development and cohesion of a collective action field.

Through a structured assessment, it analyzes how stakeholders connect, collaborate, and advance shared goals across five fundamental dimensions.

The result is a clear reading of the field's current state, identifying strengths, areas for reinforcement, and priority areas to advance a shared agenda and generate greater systemic impact.

THE 5 DIMENSIONS

Knowledge Base

The knowledge that the field produces, shares, and uses to move forward.

Actors

The people and organizations that, from different roles, drive systemic change.

Shared Agenda

The common direction that provides coherence and meaning to the field's actions.

Infrastructure

The mechanisms that connect, articulate, and strengthen joint work.

Resources

The means that enable the continuity and sustainability of the collective effort.

FIELD DEVELOPMENT STAGES

Emerging

Initial coordination efforts, with knowledge and actions still fragmented.

Forming

Actors begin to align, share learnings, and coordinate agendas.

Evolving And Sustainability

The field has structures, resources, and coordination that support long-term change.

What the tool does for your organization

Field Building as a Service turns dispersed information from your field into actionable knowledge.

It allows you to understand where your field is, how it is evolving, and what decisions can accelerate its collective maturity.

WITH THIS TOOL YOU CAN

See the state of your field clearly: get an objective and visual reading on its level of development, gaps, and opportunities.
Make more strategic decisions: identify where to invest, which alliances to strengthen, and how to accelerate collective progress.
Measure the real progress of your field: understand how individual actions translate into collective results and shared maturity.
Connect development with systemic change: integrate the Systemic Change Measurement Tool to see not only how much the field is advancing, but also the type of transformation it is generating.

Evidence / Testimony placeholder

"Here you can place a short quote from a partner, foundation, or collective that has used the tool, or a highlight impact statistic."

Name Surname

Role - Organization

Provides you with

Features designed to turn diagnosis into decisions and shared learning.

Standardized assessment and mapping

Combines quantitative and qualitative data to diagnose the field's level of development, identifying patterns, relationships, and areas of opportunity across the five characteristics.

Phased analysis

Classifies each organization and the entire field into three levels of maturity: Emerging, Forming, or Evolving and Sustainability.

Interactive dashboards

Provides dynamic visualizations that show strengths, gaps, and trends over time.

Integrated systemic impact measurement

Includes access to the Systemic Impact Measurement Tool, allowing users to connect field development with measurable systemic change indicators.

Collective learning

Transforms results into processes of reflection and shared strategic planning among actors.

Funder and grantee comparisons

Allows funders to evaluate how their phase evolves in relation to the entire field.

Assess your Field

Field Building as a Service

Is a support service that combines the Field Building Tool with facilitation, reflection, and collective learning processes.

It is aimed at actors seeking to move from diagnosis to action, strengthening coordination, shared decision-making, and the sustained development of the field.

INCLUDES

Tool configuration support and start-up process.
Facilitation of spaces for reflection and collective learning.
Coordination of actors, communications, and process monitoring.
Ongoing support to translate learning into shared actions.

More about the Service

Frequently Asked Questions

The tool assesses field development based on five key dimensions: knowledge base, actors, shared agenda, infrastructure, and resources.

The assessment is designed to be completed by key field actors, including grantmakers, public charities and grantees, according to the defined scope.

The results are presented through visualizations, reports, and analyses that identify gaps, strengths, and patterns at the field level.

The tool prioritizes the presentation of aggregated results for field analysis. The visibility of individual information is managed according to defined permissions and settings.

Yes. In fact, it is recommended to repeat the assessment periodically to monitor the field's evolution and the impact of coordinated efforts over time.

Field Building Tool measures the capacity and coordination of an field, while the Systemic Change Tracking Tool measures external transformations. Together they provide a complete view of how coordination leads to systemic results.