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Program Evaluation
Helping mission-driven leaders understand and communicate their real impact.
Ways to Work Together
I partner with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations at different stages of learning and growth. Whether you’re seeking ongoing evaluation guidance, a focused coaching engagement, or support with design, data, analysis, or publication, the work is shaped by your goals, capacity, and context. Each approach is rooted in clarity, respect for community voice, and a commitment to producing work that is useful, credible, and meaningful.
Schedule a 15-minute evaluation conversation.
This brief conversation is a chance to talk through your questions, your context, and what you’re hoping to learn. Whether you’re exploring evaluation for the first time or refining an existing approach, the goal is simply to gain clarity about what kind of support would be most useful for your organization right now.
Evaluation Partnerships
Evaluation Consulting
Thoughtful partnership for learning, accountability, and impact.
Our evaluation consulting services provide ongoing, strategic support for organizations seeking to strengthen their programs and deepen their impact. We partner with leaders to think through evaluation questions, methods, findings, and use over time, offering guidance that is responsive to changing needs rather than limited to a single project. This work often weaves together design, data collection, analysis, and communication, helping organizations build internal capacity while using evaluation as a tool for learning, reflection, and informed decision-making.
Evaluation Coaching for Small Nonprofits
A focused, practical alternative to a full evaluation.
Not every organization needs a comprehensive evaluation. For small nonprofits and ministry-based organizations, we offer short-term evaluation coaching designed to provide clarity without complexity. This option focuses on helping leaders clarify learning goals, identify meaningful indicators, design simple data collection tools, and interpret findings in ways that support program improvement, grant readiness, and confident communication with boards and funders.
Not sure which option fits your organization?
Schedule a 15-minute evaluation conversation.
Evaluation and Communication Services
Evaluation Design and Learning Frameworks
Clarfying purpose, outcomes, and questions.
Our evaluation design services help organizations clarify what their programs are doing, why they matter, and how success will be measured. We work with you to develop or refine a theory of change or logic model that reflects your goals and context, and we guide a thoughtful process of identifying and prioritizing evaluation questions. Together, we define meaningful outcomes, select realistic indicators, and determine the most appropriate data sources and collection strategies so your evaluation is both useful and doable.
Books, Publications, and Strategic Storytelling
Extending your mission to wider audiences.
We help organizations extend their reach by transforming research, evaluation findings, and lived experience into compelling publications. Our work includes writing books and long-form narratives that promote your mission to wider audiences, alongside reports, briefs, and public-facing materials. These publications are designed to build credibility, deepen understanding, and invite broader engagement by clearly communicating why your work matters and how it contributes to lasting change.
Community-Centered Data Collection
Capturing outcomes and lived experience.
We use a mixed-methods approach to data collection that captures both measurable outcomes and lived experience. Our work combines surveys, focus groups, and interviews to reflect a range of community perspectives and program impacts. Data collection methods are tailored to your context, using electronic or paper surveys as appropriate, and we are available to conduct in-person interviews and focus groups at your field site when direct engagement matters.
Data Analysis and Insight Development
Making sense of findings for action.
Our data analysis services focus on helping you make sense of what your data is telling you and how to use it. We organize, analyze, and interpret quantitative and qualitative findings to support decision-making and program improvement. To communicate results clearly, we use accessible data visualization and reporting approaches that translate findings into reports, presentations, and other deliverables designed for learning, reflection, and action.
New Book Release:
It's Change What I'm Living For
I’m grateful to share that my new book, It’s Changed What I’m Living For, is now available. This project grew out of years of research with men and women participating in The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI), a seminary-level theological education program offered in prisons across the country.
The book brings together academic study, narrative storytelling, and firsthand interviews with incarcerated students and graduates. It follows their journeys of identity change, faith, leadership, and human flourishing—often in the most difficult circumstances.
My hope is that these stories and findings help readers better understand what happens when people are given the tools to grow, reflect, and lead, even behind bars.
If you’d like to learn more or order a copy, you can find it by clicking "Learn More."
FAQs
What is Program Evaluation?
- A specialized form of consulting that focuses on assessing the effectiveness, impact, and implementation of nonprofit programs.
- This type of consulting helps organizations understand what works, what doesn’t, and why, enabling them to improve their services, demonstrate accountability, and make data-driven decisions for future planning
How Does it Benefit Nonprofits?
- Enhances Program Effectiveness: By identifying what works and what doesn’t, nonprofits can refine their programs for greater impact.
- Supports Fundraising and Grant Applications: Demonstrating program effectiveness with solid data can improve chances of securing funding.
- Promotes Organizational Learning: Evaluation fosters a culture of learning and adaptation within organizations