Business Name (DBA): Ersoylu Consulting
Business Address: 2510 Alder Ln., Costa Mesa, California, 92627
Business Phone: 949-690-0019
Email Address: leah@ersoylu.com
Website: www.ersoylu.com
Principal: Leah Ersoylu
Categories of service:
* Program Planning
* Program Design
* Program Evaluation
* Policy Research
* Policy Analysis
* Strategic Management
* Project Management
* Project Controls (cost, schedule & quality management)
* Capacity Building
* Program Assessment
* Advocacy
* Technical Assistance
Description of services:
Our expertise delivers solutions to our clients predominantly in three areas:
Program Planning & Evaluation
Policy Research & Analysis
Strategic Project Management
We love data and we bring a host of diverse analytical tools to bear on your organization’s projects! We have experience in both qualitative and quantitative methods such as focus group facilitation, survey development and data analysis, process and impact evaluation, community assessments and coalition building. These tools, when used in a timely and targeted way, can help you demonstrate your continued accountability to your Board, your funders and to the broader community you serve.
Work-plans and logic models are only as good as your ability to implement them. We closely examine your organization's capacity, resources and timelines in order to co-create with you achievable work plans and logic models. Ersoylu Consulting helps clients develop, document, manage and evaluate innovative strategies and initiatives to support positive social change. We help staff and Board members understand the role of data and its impact on funding opportunities.
Due to limited resources and funds, it is critical that all organizations develop well-conceived and efficiently implemented social projects. A clear grasp of a policy issue, a new strategic angle or provocative research findings can get issues noticed in an increasingly competitive and dynamic policy environment. We conduct careful and timely research to facilitate evidence-based policymaking. We offer strategic advocacy coaching and workshops to organizations.
In order to maintain relevance in a fast-paced, competitive environment, it is important for the forward-thinking agency to evaluate and adjust its short and long-term strategic plans in a timely fashion. Ersoylu Consulting understands these pressures and provides insightful and expert guidance for the strategic plan development process. Dr. Leah M. Ersoylu, as a former community advocate, understands the particular needs and demands of community participation. She is able to help public institutions best respond to these needs in a sophisticated and timely manner, ensuring maximum stakeholder participation in the process.
Background on you and/or your business:
Ersoylu Consulting, a VSBE and WBE, was founded in 2007 by Dr. Leah M. Ersoylu and Sarp Ersoylu to provide policy and advocacy solutions to non-profit clients in Southern California. Since then, the firm has evolved to deliver a broad array of evaluation services, strategic management and research support to clients in all sectors engaged in social change projects.
Ersoylu Consulting is based in Orange County, CA with increasingly active partnerships in Istanbul, Turkey. Our team is led by Dr. Leah Ersoylu. She holds a B.S. degree in Environment & Resource Economics from University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. in Political Science, with a focus on public policy, from University of California, Irvine. She is a policy analyst and researcher by training with experience in grassroots advocacy in an array of social justice-related public policy issues.
Dr. Ersoylu has nearly 10 years of non-profit experience at both the programmatic and management levels. She has worked with numerous community-based organizations over the years and most recently, served as founding Director of Policy at Latino Health Access, a non-profit organization supporting the disenfranchised Latino community in Orange County (2004-2007). She occasionally serves as a lecturer at University of California, Irvine and California State University, Long Beach, where she teaches courses on Nonprofit Organizations, American Government, Urban Politics and Public Policy Analysis.
Mr. Sarp Ersoylu is the co-founder and Vice President of Ersoylu Consulting. He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and an M.B.A from California State University, Dominguez Hills. He has ten years of experience in managing large size environmental and infrastructure projects, including light rail transit systems, ports & harbors, water-wastewater facilities and various other improvements, both in design and delivery stages. Mr. Ersoylu has extensive technical knowledge of public works program delivery and budgetary processes and is proficient in the fields of project management and claims mitigation. Mr. Ersoylu is a registered professional civil engineer in the State of California and an expert in CPM scheduling.
Testimonials and/or references:
Reference Projects:
* California Endowment - Building Healthy Communities, Long Beach
* United Way of Orange County - High School Dropout Prevention Summit
* California Center for Public Health Advocacy - Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Project
* East Los Angeles College - Green Science & Technology Curriculum Project
* City of Santa Ana - Youth Master Plan
Testimonials:
"OCCORD has been completely satisfied and extremely impressed with the high level of expertise and quality service provided by Ersoylu Consulting. Their ability to provide effective solutions for our project far surpassed our expectations. Ersoylu Consulting repeatedly went above and beyond their call to duty, ensuring that we exceeded our grant goals and finished with a quality product [community assessment]. We appreciate their attention to every detail and their unmatched professionalism". - ERIC ALTMAN, Executive Director, OCCORD
Names of and/or links to your books, articles or blogs:
Leah Ersoylu and Tuba Kobas. 2010. "The New Locomotive for Economic Development: NGO's" in Itovizyon (April 2010). http://www.ito.org.tr
Helen Ingram and Leah Fraser. 2006. “Path Dependency and Adroit Innovation: The Case of California Water.” in Robert Repetto, ed, By Fits and Starts: Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. Environmental Policy. Yale University Press.
Helen Ingram and Leah Fraser. 2006. “Changing the Policy Paradigm.” in Max Oelschlaeger and Peter Friederici (eds.) Moving Waters: The Colorado River and the West. (Forthcoming, University of Arizona Press).
Leah Fraser. 2004. “Evaluating the Impacts of the Ottawa Treaty” in Landmines and Human Security: International Politics and War’s Hidden Legacy. Matthew, McDonald and Rutherford (eds.) SUNY Press.
Leah Fraser. 2004. Review of “Contested Nature: Promoting International Biodiversity with Social Justice in the Twenty-first Century” by S. Brechin et al.(2003), Environment (June 2004).
Richard Matthew and Leah Fraser. 2002. Global Environmental Change and Human Security: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues. GECHS Program Office, UCI. www.gechs.uci.edu.
Leah Fraser. 2002. Review of “Faces of Environmental Racism” by Westra and Lawson (2001), Environment (November 2002).
Member, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Policy & Practice Advisory Group for Review of Environmental & Policy Interventions for Childhood Obesity Prevention. (Convened by Transtria, Inc., 2009-2011)
Member, Urban Hardship Task Force. (Convened by Oakview Renewal Partnership, 2008)
“Making the Leap: Moving your Nonprofit from Service to Advocacy.” Invited presentation at CSUF Summer School for Nonprofits, July 10, 2008.
“Community-Based Policy Research.” Panel presentation at Connecting Communities: The University and Multi-Ethnic Civic Engagement. A Southern California Regional Symposium, Irvine, CA, February 7, 2008.
"Changing the Physical Activity Environment in Santa Ana, CA." Panel presentation at American Public Health Association Conference, Wash
Service area by country, state or zip code:
We have the capacity to serve all 50 states in the United States and Republic of Turkey, depending upon the type of project.
