Improved lives and communities through high-quality evaluation.

• We value high quality, ethically defensible, culturally responsive evaluation practices.
• We strive to understand the context and communities in which we work.
• We use rigorous and innovative quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods.
• We help clients obtain and use information to make informed decisions about the implementation and effectiveness of their programs and policies.
• We make evaluation meaningful and accessible to multiple audiences.
• We support the development of evaluation capacity and its use within institutions and organizations.
• We provide real world evaluation opportunities for graduate students to apply coursework and gain evaluation expertise.
• We advocate for the value and use of evaluation by a wide range of stakeholders.
• Our work advances the field of evaluation.

The Evaluation Center is committed to equity and equity evaluation; we believe Equitable Evaluation is an approach that ultimately contributes to the betterment of communities or programs by examining issues of social justice in every aspect of the program or project being evaluated. As an organization, we believe that as evaluators we have a responsibility to conduct evaluation that is in service of equity, and race equity being foundational to this work. As a part of this work, our team intentionally works with an external consultant to continue our growth and education.