Participatory Action Research Collective (PARC)

Evaluation Design

-Designing high-quality evaluation to meet your grant funder, programmatic, and organizational needs.

-Scaling the approach to fit your budget.

-Providing a detailed, written plan of all evaluation aims, activities, and strategies.

-Including extensive scope, timeline, and budget.

Evaluation Implementation & Management

-Providing full project management and investigator oversight across the evaluation lifecycle.

-Ensuring that the evaluation plan is on track and meets milestones and deadlines.

-Collaborating with partners through regularly scheduled meetings and deliverables.

Participant Engagement

-Utilizing Institutional Review Board (IRB) oversight to ensure ethical engagement of evaluation participants.

-Using a participatory action approach.

-Engaging individuals with lived expertise throughout the evaluation.

Data Collection & Analysis

-Using a mixed-methods approach for collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data.

-Helping your organization develop a system for organizing outcome data.

-Providing a detailed analytic plan to ensure transparency and methodological rigor.

-Making use of publicly available data to frame and illustrate the need.

Evaluation Reporting

-Organizing findings into a high-quality, designed report

-Packaging evaluation findings with an eye toward attracting future investments.

-Demonstrating impact, identifying strengths, highlighting barriers and challenges, and highlighting future strategies.