We offer a wide range of evaluation services to help you grow your program.
Evaluation Planning
Planning how we'll measure your community impact.
Data Collection
Gathering data that shows your impact in the community.
Data Analysis & Dissemination
Interpreting the data to tell your story.
Publication
Sharing your story in public forums to help you advance your mission.
Evaluation planning involves the development of a theory of change or logic model. This process is an opportunity to reflect on critical questions around what a program is doing, what differences it strives to make, how it plans to achieve this, and how it measures success. We work with you to develop, refine, and prioritize evaluation questions to define outcomes, to identify indicators for measuring those outcomes, and to select the most appropriate sources and strategies for collecting the most appropriate data.
Our data collection techniques involve a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods that aim to capture a variety of community perspectives. We use surveys and focus groups to capture data that accurately reflect your program's impact. We use electronic surveys (Survey Monkey) or traditional paper surveys according to your needs, and we travel to your field site to interview program participants for the qualitative portion of data collection.
The next step in your evaluation is to organize, analyze, and interpret your data so that you are able to use the results to make decisions and improve your program. To communicate evaluation findings, we then use data visualization tools and approaches to develop accessible and engaging reports, presentations, and other deliverables for learning and improvement.
Beyond the final evaluation report presented to your organization, we share the story of your impact with a wider audience (only with your permission, of course).
(This is a great story!)
We partnered with a client who runs a higher education in prison program across America to evaluate their program's effectiveness.
We published the findings in over 25 blogs and three peer-reviewed professional research journals.
Our published research got noticed!
The head of corrections in another state automatically approved our client's program expansion into all 53 prisons largely because the research findings had been published in academic journals.
We can help you expand your program too! Scroll down to learn how or click "get in touch" below to start the conversation.