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We provide evaluation, training and research services and technical
supports to communites, programs and institutions.
Our state of the art evaluation practice strives to identify and frame
your best intentions and link them to your strategic actions. Then, we
identify your most important questions, based on the information you
need to achieve your best and assess and monitor systems and
information sources that can best answer those questions.
We
maintain secure storage for sensitive data and have access to
university institutional review board should your project require such
review.
Virtues
Evaluation:
We help
you identify your core operating princples and use those as the
foundation for evaluation activities and application of findings by
designing conceptual diagrams (theory of change, logic model) to help
you and your key stakeholders see your program most clearly. Together,
we use these tools to focus the evaluation.
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Participatory Inquiry:
We can
customize a variety of specialized practices that are designed to allow
those people who matter most to contribute to the evaluation process.
We specialize in the application of specialized tools to support
participatory research and evaluation, including concept mapping using
customized software by Concept Systems, Inc. or other low-tech
solutions.
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Evaluation Design:
We
identify critical questions and develop measurements and appropriate
methods to address your critical questions. We puposefully design
custom evaluation plans to meet your unique requirements. We tailor the
emphasis on outcomes and processes, whether qualitiative or
quantitative, to match what you need to know and how you need to know
it.
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Technical Advice & Support:
Our
expertise is in small customized assessment and support of programs. If
you need expert help with synthesizing and analyzing data you generate
from consumers and partners, we can help identify what level of support
you need and exactly which types of human resources can meet those
needs most efficiently and economically. We work with a team of
independent professional to field larger projects and have collegial
and personal relationships with other expert researchers and evaluation
practitioners. We can conduct the work you need ourselves, recommend
and help you identify appropriate experts or train in-house staff or
partners to get the information you need when you need it.
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