Custom-Designed Projects
Excited about your work and eager to learn! Or maybe you feel adrift in a sea of data and demands?
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Your work is meaningful and complex, and you're eager to know how to learn from it.
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You want to engage those impacted in decision-making and seek guidance.
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You feel pressure to prove "it" works externally (from funders) and internally (from board members), and standard metrics or Key Performance Indicators just don't seem to represent your work.
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Maybe you've been told to collect certain types of data for which you may not have the capacity or actual need or value.
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You've got great data and want to put it to use, but how?
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Everyone has opinions or a solution, but nothing ever feels right.
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You’re seeking to have more productive conversations with your funders, board members, and partners about your program's contributions and are looking for (meaningful) data-informed talking points.
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Plus, you want your evaluation or learning strategy to be culturally responsive, inclusive, equitable, and ethical.
You're not alone!
75% of non-profits collect data about their programs, but only 6% of non-profit leaders believe their organizations use the data effectively.
Non-profits expend significant resources - social capital, time, and money - to gather and make sense of data they think they need or are told to collect.
This is where we come in! We simplify how you can evaluate and learn from your work by breaking it down into manageable pieces.
We've learned over the years that deep listening and intentional collaboration result in the transformative learning processes our non-profit partners need to have an impact.
We’ll guide you and your community through the five-phases of our process to address your development, information, or data needs.
Throughout the journey, we’ll build your organization's capacity to learn from your work systematically and tell the story of its impact in the community or beyond.
Our five-phase approach to research and evaluation
Define & Contextualize
Your work, community, values, information needs, and evaluation
Plan Collaboratively
With you and your community to ensure a good fit evaluation
Gather Information
Using culturally and contextually relevant methods
Learn Together
With you and your community by making sense of the gathered information
Take Action
And apply what we have learned
We custom design each project to meet your unique needs while being mindful of organizational values, context, resources, and constraints.
Our five-phase approach results from nearly two decades of research and practical application aimed at helping non-profits learn from and amplify their social justice efforts.
Our process is deeply rooted in the principles of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
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