What are your first steps when submitting a grant to a specific or general call? What is a funder looking? Is your organization a good fit?
At REI, we are seasoned (and successful!) grant writers who will work closely with your leadership team to write and articulate large (and small) grants to support your organization’s financial bottom line.
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Grant Writing
and Design
Do you need to visualize how program activities will result in medium and long-term impacts?
REI will design new monitoring tools and frameworks to organize your internal and external processes. Our tools combine quantitative and qualitative research methods to create tools specific to your program.
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Models
Do you need help writing or editing policy briefs or documents intended for government officials making important decisions on policies and budgets?
REI loves to edit! Let our expert social scientists review or edit your reports and writing.
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Policy Writing
and Editing
Robbins Empirical Insights applies academic expertise to create tools, prose, and frameworks to support small and large organizations’ tools they use to capture and measure their internal and external impacts. REI works with organizations in three layered areas that reinforce and support each other.
Through the use of theoretical frameworks, principally gender and race, REI identifies the obvious and subtle mechanisms that perpetuate inequalities and inequities and considers how macro and microlevel solutions can address and prevent them. Bringing this grounding, REI works with organizations to create robust models that capture and communicate the changes they are leading.
SERVICES
Experience shapes the way we move in the world. Evidence shapes the way policies and programs are designed and implemented. We work to support organizations that combine the worlds of experience and evidence.
We leverage social science research methods to support NGOs and nonprofits around the world.
We believe organizations led by personal experience and insight can be the most impactful and effective at gathering and evaluating evidence.
Robbins Empirical Insights leverages social science research methods to create monitoring, evaluation, and learning models, write and shape policy, and articulate and execute grant writing.
Our work aims to support organizations in the fields of gender, public health, and social justice as they work to create tools, evidence, and models to justify and support their efforts.
The word empirical is derived from the Greek "empeirikos," meaning experienced. We believe your experience matters and can offer distinct insights into the inequalities that exist today.
Our Work
REI works to support organizations as they navigate the complex world of fundraising, evaluation, and writing.
Mission
REI works to support organizations as they navigate the complex world of fundraising, evaluation, and writing.
Mission
REI
ABOUT
Mary is a public health and gender consultant based in Vienna, Austria.
Mary E. Robbins is a feminist social scientist with expertise in gender, health, race, and economic development. Raised by a single mother in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mary’s upbringing greatly impacts how she interacts and moves in the world. She works to support frameworks and policies that are equitable and inclusive, supporting others, like her mom.
She received her M.A. in Gender Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in June 2021. At UCLA, Mary learned how to develop and apply theoretical frameworks to social and systemic gender inequalities. She trained with world-class experts on how to apply qualitative and quantitative methods to real-world inequalities. Rather than focusing on only individuals, she learned to critique the systems and power structures that exist across race, gender, nationality, and ethnicity. At UCLA, using a Black feminist lens, Mary’s training centers the groups most at risk to coercion and exploitation. This, as a result, supports the development of more robust writing, evaluations, and analysis.
Prior to UCLA, she attended The New School (MA, 2011) in New York City where she used human rights based frameworks to analyze social policies alleviating poverty and promoting positive health outcomes. She is a 2006 graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.
After living in Latin America for five years, she is fluent in written and spoken Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. When she’s not mulling over the structure of a sentence, Mary enjoys teaching her children every word to Taylor Swift’s music catalog, running to the Ezra Klein podcast, public transportation in Europe, practicing yoga, and arguing with her husband about data.
Our goal is to support organizations as they plan their fundraising and evaluation needs.
Outcomes
Until now, Mary has raised more than $3.5 million for organizations throughout the Americas. This includes awards from multinational organizations like UN Women, federal U.S. agencies like the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), local government agencies including the Florida Department of Health and The Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County, and private foundations like BuildHealth and The Gates Foundation.
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