Create Your Own Project
Create Your Own Project
Maybe you’re looking to design a new program or initiative and want to know what would be most helpful to your community.
Perhaps you want help gathering feedback from your key audiences about a particular issue.
Or maybe there’s a historical matter you’ve always wondered about.
No matter the topic, you have a specific question you’re seeking information about.
Yet, no matter how interested you are, you know you can’t carry it out alone. You know this project needs more intensive time and expertise in order to happen.
With twenty years of experience in research and evaluation across sectors and settings, I’ll work with you to design and implement a project that uses data to develop learning agendas, inform strategies, deepen insights related to innovation, and more. You’ll have a custom project that draws from a range of methods and across disciplines to use evaluation as a process of discovery and learning.
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Evaluation can take many shapes and forms. These projects are focused collaborations to help you rethink how evaluation can serve your community. Working together, I can help you design and implement an individualized project that uses data to help guide a process of reflection, learning, and growth.
Topics can vary from the arts to education to climate justice. Projects can be oriented toward planning, focused on the present, or historical in nature. Examples might include documentation of an organization’s history and development, assessment of community needs and resources, collective storytelling to commemorate or celebrate a milestone, or a campaign to raise awareness about a topic or issue. But really the sky’s the limit.
Drawing from a range of methods, I’ll provide an assortment of research services, tailored to the project, that can include activities such as drafting communications, creating surveys and other ways to collect information, conducting interviews, focus groups, and observations, and analyzing all sorts of data.
Throughout the process, I will serve as your thought partner and facilitative guide, helping you think about and reflect on what you’re learning from the data. Together, we’ll design plans to share results and communicate about the project to all key people involved.
Who This is For
Create Your Own Project is for people and groups who are interested in exploring the possibilities that evaluation can offer as a process of discovery and learning.
It could be useful if you are:
- Launching a new initiative or community event
- Bridging into education from another sector
- Looking to celebrate an organization’s milestone
- Creating an archive of program materials
- Hoping to get a second opinion on the design of a project or program
- Dreaming of ways to use data in creative, unconventional ways
Benefits
- Focus on a specific question that’s relevant to you
- Think creatively about data for your purposes
- Use a range of methods and tools to gather information
- Communicate about your learning with your key audiences
- Tell the story of your work in innovative ways
- Explore how evaluation can help your organization grow in new directions
What You Can Expect
Each project is customized to include a blend of research services, collaborative work sessions, and facilitation specifically crafted to address your questions and meet your goals.
- Strategy and planning to set the course and direction
- Customized research services that may include:
- Review of best practices or current trends
- Survey creation and measurement identification
- Data collection, including interviews, focus groups, and observations
- Data analysis and review of archival materials
- A series of collaborative work sessions designed to facilitate your learning
- Documentation and sharing of findings, lessons learned, and recommendations
- Email support to address time sensitive questions
I’d love to hear more about you and your ideas!
I will work with you to develop a specific package that meets your needs and considers factors such as your organization’s size, staffing, and budget, among other things.
Or, learn more about me and my approach first.
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