Evaulation Services

MOIRA DENIKE CONSULTING

Consulting Services to Increase Impact and Capacity

Evaluation Services

Moira DeNike Consulting Evaluation Services include:

Survey and Closed-ended Questionnaire Design: Creating customized instruments from stakeholder input to measure program impact.
Concept Development and Operationalization: Working with program staff to identify goals, methods and creative ways of measuring program effectiveness and barriers to progress.
Logic Modeling: Building logic models to clarify program goals, objectives, activities and dependent variables.
Data Systems Set-up: Helping clients identify key variables, track client data, and manage information electronically.
Data Analysis: Using statistical software to recode data, create composite indexes, and conduct bivariate analyses, multivariate (regression) analyses, and tests of statistical significance.
Qualitative Research: Using focus groups and in-depth oral interviews to get a fuller picture of program successes, impediments, highlights and accomplishments.
Formative and Process Evaluation: Gathering information from program personnel, key stakeholders, program clients and community members as to the barriers, successes, and opportunities of program implementation.

Program Evaluation

For most grant-funded programs, evaluation is a key component to securing future funding. Ideally, evaluation should be a part of every program design and grant proposal. Effective evaluation, however, requires expertise in research design and analysis, which very often means that agencies must look beyond in-house staff to evaluate the impact their programs are having.

Moira DeNike Consulting designs, executes and writes evaluations for programs serving children, youth, immigrant and offender populations, including K-12 classroom and after school, youth development, violence prevention, offender re-entry, mental health services, and conflict resolution programs.

It is only through sound evaluation design and execution that Best Practices can be established. When a program demonstrates that it has had a measurable impact, and that it effectively serves the needs of its target population, it becomes eligible for unprecedented funding. Furthermore, it is now poised to emerge as a nationally recognized model whose philosophy and methods can be replicated.

Evaluation also provides important feedback to program directors so they can make program adjustments and optimize service delivery. Moreover, program staff who work day in and day out are often unaware of the difference they are making in the lives of those they serve. Evaluation can reward and empower those workers by provided them with evidence of their impact.