LaBarbera Learning Solutions
Partnering with a range of public health, education, and human service leaders to maximize their program's impact and bring human flourishing to their communities.
How Program Evaluation Benefits Non-profits
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
Our Evaluation Services:
Partnering with public health, education, and human service leaders, we provide program evaluation services that maximize impact and support community flourishing. We use a multi-faceted approach to share evaluation results broadly, ensuring findings are accessible and actionable for diverse audiences.
Evaluation Planning
Evaluation planning involves the development of a theory of change or logic model. This process is an opportunity to reflect on critical questions around what a program is doing, what differences it strives to make, how it plans to achieve this, and how it measures success. We work with you to develop, refine, and prioritize evaluation questions to define outcomes, to identify indicators for measuring those outcomes, and to select the most appropriate sources and strategies for collecting the most appropriate data.
Data Collection
Our data collection techniques involve a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods that aim to capture a variety of community perspectives. We use surveys and focus groups to capture data that accurately reflect your program's impact. We use electronic surveys (Survey Monkey) or traditional paper surveys according to your needs, and we travel to your field site to interview program participants for the qualitative portion of data collection.
Data Analysis and Dissemination
The next step in your evaluation is to organize, analyze, and interpret your data so that you are able to use the results to make decisions and improve your program. To communicate evaluation findings, we then use data visualization tools and approaches to develop accessible and engaging reports, presentations, and other deliverables for learning and improvement.
Publication (our sweet spot!)
Beyond the final evaluation report presented to your organization, we share the story of your impact with a wider audience (only with your permission, of course).
- We publish peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.
- We share related articles on LinkedIn and engage heavily in the discussion around your social impact issue.
- We write multiple blogs on our website to bring awareness to your social impact issue (we've written over 25 blogs on prison rehabilitation for one client).
- We write and publish books about your social impact topic.
- We appear on radio shows and present at professional conferences to advocate for your issue.
How our expert evaluation services helped our client:
(This is a great story!)
- We partnered with a client who runs a higher education in prison program across America to evaluate their program's effectiveness.
- We published the findings in over 25 blogs and three peer-reviewed professional research journals.
- Our published research got noticed!
- The head of corrections in another state automatically approved our client's program expansion into all 53 prisons largely because the research findings had been published in academic journals.
- We can help you expand your program too! Scroll down to learn how or click "get in touch" below to start the conversation.