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Evaluation for Impact
Rigorous program evaluation that measures what matters and communicates findings people can use.
Driving Impact
We work closely with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations leveraging the power of data and insights to drive community impact. We help social impact organizations evaluate and fine-tune programming to impact more stakeholders.
Evaluation Partnership
A full evaluation partnership for measuring and communicating impact.
Our evaluation consulting services provide ongoing, strategic support for organizations seeking to strengthen their programs and deepen their impact. We partner with leaders to think through evaluation questions, methods, findings, and use over time, offering guidance that is responsive to changing needs rather than limited to a single project. This work often weaves together design, data collection, analysis, and communication, helping organizations build internal capacity while using evaluation as a tool for learning, reflection, and informed decision-making.
Evaluation Coaching for Small Nonprofits
A focused, practical alternative to a full evaluation.
Not every organization needs a comprehensive evaluation. For small nonprofits and ministry-based organizations, we offer short-term evaluation coaching designed to provide clarity without complexity. This option focuses on helping leaders clarify learning goals, identify meaningful indicators, design simple data collection tools, and interpret findings in ways that support program improvement, grant readiness, and confident communication with boards and funders.
A Full Range of
Impact Evaluation and Communication Services:
Evaluation Design and Learning Frameworks
Clarfying purpose, outcomes, and questions.
Our evaluation design services help organizations clarify what their programs are doing, why they matter, and how success will be measured. We work with you to develop or refine a theory of change or logic model that reflects your goals and context, and we guide a thoughtful process of identifying and prioritizing evaluation questions. Together, we define meaningful outcomes, select realistic indicators, and determine the most appropriate data sources and collection strategies so your evaluation is both useful and doable.
Books, Publications, and Strategic Storytelling
Extending your mission to wider audiences.
We help organizations extend their reach by transforming research, evaluation findings, and lived experience into compelling publications. Our work includes writing books and long-form narratives that promote your mission to wider audiences, alongside reports, briefs, and public-facing materials. These publications are designed to build credibility, deepen understanding, and invite broader engagement by clearly communicating why your work matters and how it contributes to lasting change.
Community-Centered Data Collection
Capturing outcomes and lived experience.
We use a mixed-methods approach to data collection that captures both measurable outcomes and lived experience. Our work combines surveys, focus groups, and interviews to reflect a range of community perspectives and program impacts. Data collection methods are tailored to your context, using electronic or paper surveys as appropriate, and we are available to conduct in-person interviews and focus groups at your field site when direct engagement matters.
Data Analysis and Insight Development
Making sense of findings for action.
Our data analysis services focus on helping you make sense of what your data is telling you and how to use it. We organize, analyze, and interpret quantitative and qualitative findings to support decision-making and program improvement. To communicate results clearly, we use accessible data visualization and reporting approaches that translate findings into reports, presentations, and other deliverables designed for learning, reflection, and action.
Client Impact:
I can contest that Robin is a true professional. Her evaluation process and analysis provides data that is extremely important in enhancing organizational performance. This is one of the reasons HOM is excelling and has become a leaders in Reentry Housing & Programs in Washington State.
Jeffery Nichols
Grant Manager
House of Mercy Ministries
Robin's work is making vision tangible. She has such a gift. She gives voice to so many through her work. Such a joy and privilege to have her be part of this effort. THANK YOU!
Mary Flin
Director and Dean
Seminary for Urban Leadership
Robin brings rare credibility to evaluation work because it is rooted in presence, listening, and lived experience.
Alvin Sanders
CEO
World Impact, Inc.
Schedule a 15-minute evaluation conversation.
If your organization is like most, your focus is on delivering programs and services. That doesn't leave much bandwidth for stepping back and engaging in strategic thinking about where you're going and how you can increase and communicate your impact. Let's explore the possibilities.
New Book Release:
It's Change What I'm Living For
My new book, It’s Changed What I’m Living For, is now available.
This book grew out of an impact evaluation I conducted with participants in The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI), a seminary-level theological education program offered in prisons and jails across the country.
Over several years, I studied how this kind of education shapes well-being, identity, relationships, and leadership among incarcerated men and women.
Alongside the research, I spent time listening. The book weaves together evaluation findings with narrative storytelling and firsthand interviews, tracing journeys of faith, responsibility, and human flourishing in places often defined only by punishment.
If you’d like to learn more or order a copy, you can click “Learn More.”