About Extra Good
We aren’t your typical management consultants, because we understand that it takes more than a good plan to achieve results. we turn ideas into action, action into results, and results into resources.
We are a capacity-building consulting firm that maximizes organizations’ ability to achieve their goals through proven program optimization and evaluation tools. We help you better help your clients by fostering dialogue, moving beyond assumptions and channeling mission work through the lens of social justice. We provide our clients the focus and support that makes big visions actionable. Simply put, we help nonprofits identify, focus and evaluate the systems, programs and projects that will help them do more good.
Who We Are
Extra Good co-founders Josh Kravitz and Lindsey Barnett are experienced nonprofit leaders with a broad range of expertise across nonprofit sectors. Just as importantly, we deeply understand the joys and challenges of mission-driven work. We’re a close-knit team with complementary skillsets and a deep network of trusted consulting partners.
Lindsey has extensive, proven experience working collaboratively to promote best practices in humanitarian aid throughout her career. With almost 20 years of dedication to promoting social justice in the U.S. and abroad, she has acquired a wealth of knowledge and perspective on the need for continued improvement in nonprofit efficacy and the power of shared knowledge to innovate philanthropy.
Lindsey is a gifted bridge-builder between nonprofits, corporations, local governments, and the academic community. Driven by a commitment to elevate the recipient community’s voice and leadership, Lindsey has a proven track record forging and sustaining partnerships between high-impact programs and corporate partners to accomplish something greater together. Through her expertise in program evaluation, research, and analysis, Lindsey helps organizations ensure these philanthropic collaborations don’t just feel good, they’re actually doing good.
She received her M.A. in International Relations with an emphasis on the Effective Distribution of Aid from New York University, where she conducted research on the misappropriation of aid in Northern Uganda that was published in the Journal of Political Inquiry. Lindsey lives in the Atlanta area with her husband, two children, and her faithful four-legged friend.
JOSHUA KRAVITZ
President and Co-Founder
As Josh left a meeting to develop a new program with a Detroit-based foundation, one of his board members turned to him and said, “You shine in those gatherings.” In fact, Josh thrives most in the behind-the-scenes work of building programs and organizations, and it is through this expertise that Josh most often helps organizations thrive.
This attunement to the details of nonprofit program design has shaped a career of launches and evolutionary leaps for organizations across the United States. Josh was appointed to serve as MedShare’s first Chief Operating Officer following his contributions to the successful management of the medical aid organization’s response to Haiti’s 2010 earthquake.
Josh reprised a similar role for the Dispensary of Hope as Chief Operations Officer, building a platform the group used to grow from a regional aid group to one of the United State’s largest charitable medication distributors.
Today, as the President and Co-Founder of Extra Good, Josh develops and implements strategies for nonprofit organizations striving to achieve the greatest parts of their vision. Through his experiences creating a financially sustainable medical supply store for aid groups, managing the formation of an association for medical aid organizations that established industry guidelines and fostered discourse, and building out an accredited pharmaceutical distribution center, Josh turns ideas into action that directly contributes to missional objectives and supports the pursuit of social justice.
Josh has a bachelor’s degree in Law and Society from American University, where he was the recipient of the Charles Glover award for business leadership. He also earned a master’s degree from Arizona State University in Rhetoric and Composition while serving as a graduate assistant in their Service Learning program. He, his partner, and their chihuahua live in Atlanta, Georgia.