Our Services
The Evaluation Center has extensive experience providing program evaluation to a wide variety of clients from schools, non-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, community groups, and government agencies. We work collaboratively with our clients to promote evidence-informed programs, practices, and policies by using rigorous, innovative evaluation processes. We utilize and implement culturally responsive and appropriate evaluation practices in our work. The Evaluation Center is committed to supporting projects that contribute to the betterment of the community or program.
Our Approach to Meaningful Evaluation
Collaboration
We ensure inclusion of diverse perspectives by engaging our partners in all phases of the evaluation, honoring the knowledge and experiences that our clients bring to the evaluation.
Empowerment
We foster learning communities and partnerships to build evaluative thinking, offering training and resources on evaluation methods, data analysis, visualization, and dissemination.
Advancement
We are committed to evaluations that ultimately contribute to the betterment of the community or program.
Design
We collaborate with clients to design equitable, rigorous evaluations, engaging creatively throughout—from logic models and data collection to interpretation, webinars, and research briefs.
We can help answer the following questions that you might have about your program:
Is my program meeting its goals to help serve people and communities?
We help answer this by offering a range of evaluation services, including:
- Facilitating logic model development
- Designing tailored evaluations (developmental, process, and impact)
- Identifying, adapting, and creating data collection tools
- Implementing evaluation frameworks and approaches
- Collecting qualitative data (e.g., interviews, focus groups, photovoice, journey mapping)
- Collecting quantitative data (e.g., surveys, monitoring, secondary sources)
- Conducting comprehensive data analysis
- Providing real-time data to support informed decisions
What are the needs of the community we are trying to help?
We support this work through approaches that center community voices and data, including:
- Conducting feasibility studies
- Reviewing existing literature and data
- Analyzing secondary data to uncover trends and gaps
- Facilitating inclusive community needs assessments
- Leveraging university resources and community partnerships to support impact
How do I share the impact of my program?
We help you communicate your impact in meaningful, accessible ways by:
- Tailoring reporting to meet a variety of audiences
- Presenting findings to communities and funders
- Supporting publications that demonstrate impact
- Creating web content and data visualizations that clearly tell your program’s story
- Facilitating data interpretation sessions to co-create meaning
- Organizing, cleaning, and analyzing previously collected data
How can we build our own evaluation skills?
We support you in building longterm evaluation capacity through:
- Partnering with you in strategic planning
- Developing organizations’ evaluation capacity
- Creating evaluation resources tailored to meet your needs
- Providing collaborative technical assistance
- Facilitating interactive workshops to support evaluative learning (e.g., instrument development, data visualization, logic model design)
HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
Our offices are centrally located in the heart of Downtown Denver, just blocks from the Auraria Campus. Our central location positions us well to support clients both locally and abroad. Interested in working together? Fill out the form to the right, and we will get in touch.