Evaluation and Research
Evaluation is intended to be a practical craft.
If you don’t use it, you should lose it. That’s why we focus on designing a tailored evaluation to gather quality data you will actually use.
Our evaluations support continued learning about your priority populations, the processes you use to do your work, and the outcomes achieved to help guide decision-making.
Data are around us all the time and embedded in almost every decision we make – we will work with you as experts and partners to identify those data and use them to tell the story of your work.
What Happened Comes First, Then Outcomes
Too many evaluations rush straight to outcomes and impacts, without spending the time to document the elements of a project design that create the context for change to happen.
We’re working to change that – we want to tell the story of how and why you designed your project the way you did, and then what difference it made in the world.
Continuous Improvement
There’s no such thing as a perfect project, or a perfect evaluation.
We strive toward our potential and yours by intentionally guiding reflection, building capacity, and centering equity and inclusion throughout the evaluation partnership.