Services for Community-Based Organizations
We offer a range of services from conducting in-depth evaluation and research projects, to supporting organizations with getting started building an evaluation culture, understanding how to incorporate evaluation into grant proposals and reports, or training staff on evaluation strategies they can incorporate into their work.
We work with each client to craft a custom project that offers the best way to support the organization while responding to budget and staff capacity.
Ways we can help:
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We specialize in helping organizations build evaluation into their work in a way that is easy, effective, and integrated into everyday work.
Building an evaluation culture helps your organization become data-informed without breaking a sweat. Not only will you have a process that gives you powerful, usable, information, it will become automatic and seamless part of your organization.
Learn more about how we help you build an evaluation culture
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Evaluation Planning helps you develop an evaluation strategy that meets the needs and capacity of your organization. A solid plan helps you identify how best to integrate evaluation into your work, accurately assess your outcomes and impact, and create a system to get it all done without creating extra busy work.
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Whether you want to build an evaluation culture in your organization or conduct an in-depth evaluation of a program or process, we’re here to support you in finding strategies to integrate strong, meaningful evaluation into your work. Our evaluators are experienced and knowledgeable in all stages of the research process from idea generation to action.
We work with each partner to tailor a unique evaluation approach that meets their goals, works within resource constraints, and addresses their questions and needs.
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We ensure that your evaluation systems are sustainable and contribute to the overall wellbeing of your organization.
We offer services and help develop systems so that our work contributes to more ease, integration, and holistic growth for our communities.
Our approach goes beyond simple program evaluation
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Integration
Evaluation is a powerful asset in sharing your story and impact, helping you make decisions and updates, and streamlining organizational processes.
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Equity-Focused and Community-Based Methods
All of our processes and methods are based on equitable, community-based principles.
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Holistic Organizational Support
We ensure that your evaluation systems are sustainable and contribute to the overall wellbeing of your organization. We offer services and help develop systems so that our work contributes to more ease, integration, and holistic growth for our communities.
Evaluation Culture Building
Easy, Integrated, and Powerful
We specialize in helping organizations build evaluation into their work in a way that is easy, effective, and integrated into everyday work.
Building an evaluation culture helps your organization become data-informed without breaking a sweat. Not only will you have a process that gives you powerful, usable, information, it will become an automatic and seamless part of your organization.
An evaluation culture helps you:
Use data to tell your story
Create an evaluation system that is easy and cuts down on extra busy work
Stop applying band aids and be ready for reports and data requests
Data becomes your friend
How we do it:
Create an evaluation plan that works with your organization’s existing processes
Develop a logic model or theory of change to used beyond evaluation to support communication, program development, and fundraising
Help you find ways to use what you already know and are already doing to gather information
Ensure that evaluation supports other organizational processes like fundraising and program development
Puts the Power in Your Hands
Evaluation Planning helps you develop an evaluation strategy that meets the needs and capacity of your organization. A solid plan helps you identify how best to integrate evaluation into your work, accurately assess your outcomes and impact, and create a system to get it all done without creating extra busy work.
Our Evaluation Planning services include:
Creating an evaluation plan that fits your program and budget
Developing an evaluation plan for a new or existing project or proposal
Developing a logic model or theory of change
Writing evaluation into grant proposals
Assess current evaluation activities and help you find new opportunities to assess and communicate your impact
Determine the best way to integrate evaluation into your organization without creating unnecessary busy work
Build in flexibility and adaptability so your evaluation can flow with your program
Puts the power in your hands to create an evaluation process that is the best fit for your program, budget, and community
Evaluation Planning
In-depth Evaluation or Research
Get All the Info
Whether you want to build an evaluation culture in your organization or conduct an in-depth evaluation of a program or process, we’re here to support you in finding strategies to integrate strong, meaningful evaluation into your work. Our evaluators are experienced and knowledgeable in all stages of the research process from idea generation to action.
We work with each partner to tailor a unique evaluation approach that meets their goals, works within resource constraints, and addresses their questions and needs.
We can help you:
Design and implement program evaluation for specific programs or the organization as a whole
Design and implement evaluation of organizational processes or effectiveness
Assess the impact of programming on the communities an organization or program serves
Evaluation services include:
Support with all aspects of the evaluation process
Develop an evaluation plan that accurately assesses program goals, and outcomes, and impact
Develop a logic model or theory of change
Determine appropriate methodology to gather data
Full analysis of data
Develop materials and tools to communicate data for different audiences, including funders and your community
Network and Coaching
As part of our services, all of our clients have access to our network and coaching. What this means is that we support you in the overall wellbeing of your organization. Clearly, we believe in the power of evaluation to support your work and mission, but we know it's only one piece of the puzzle.
Our work with our clients often involves connecting them to additional support in areas where we see an opportunity for support or growth- this may involve support with fundraising, grant-writing, website development, strategic planning, or organizational assessment.
It is important for us to incorporate this into our work in order to support a collaborative and cohesive nonprofit community.
Nonprofits are notorious for “siloing.” We hope our work contributes to more ease, integration, and holistic growth for our communities.
Holistic Support
Ongoing Support
Clients who have worked with us on a project basis have access to our hourly, meeting, and coaching rates as part of our commitment to ongoing support and integration.
This means that after a project is completed (or even during!) you will have the opportunity to contact us for support with implementation, questions, or help with additional activities as they arise.
Past clients have used this opportunity to schedule one-off consultation meetings, for smaller eval activities like reviewing or writing a survey, help writing grant proposals and reports, reviewing documents, or even just serving as an extra pair of hands when things get busy.
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your organization?
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