Evaluation

Foundation Evaluations

Over the years I have worked with many foundations to better understand how their grantmaking and technical assistance practices were impacting their grantee partners and their unique fields of practice.

Most recently, I have worked with the New York Women’s Foundation to evaluate the impact of the last twenty years of their grant-making on women in New York City.  Over many years I have worked with the Robert Bowne Foundation, supporting them to become a role model for their grantees as a positive learning organization.

In addition, I work with the Robert Bowne Foundation grantees and technical assistance providers to increase their capacities to continuously develop. Sometimes this means I provide one-to-one assistance but more often my support comes in the form of workshops and trainings that help both the foundation and the grantees to develop instruments, gather data, analyze data, reflect on data, and authentically engage stakeholders in the process.

Out of School Time Programs
OASIS
Project STRETCH
Highbridge Community Center
Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood House
Riverdale Neighborhood House

I have worked in the area of Out-of-School Time before it was called Out-of-School time.  Over the years, my one-to-one consultations and trainings have touched hundreds of programs across the country.  As the field has grown and developed, I have stayed current with the newest research and literature that drives both practice and evaluation of outcomes.

Youth Development
Fresh Youth Initiatives
Educational Video Center
The New York Hall of Science
The City Kids Foundation
Good Shepard Services
Harlem RBI

Youth Media
Listen Up!
Youth Rights Media
Global Action Project

Youth organizing programs
Dream Yards Action Project
V.O.I.C.E.S
Youth Together
Youth United for Change
Youth Organizers United
Kids As Self Advocates
Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice

Because of my background in youth development, I have had the honor and privilege of working with a wide variety of programs from youth organizing, to youth media, to girls only programs, to theater and arts programs, to youth with disabilities programs, to Native American programs, to dance programs, to LGBTQ programs.

Each of these groups of youth have taught me a great deal about what it means to be a young person in today’s society and what it means for a program to really meet their needs.  While working with youth programs, I make sure to develop youth evaluation teams that work closely with me to evaluate the program from their perspective, using their questions, their methods, and their analysis if the data.

In this way, the evaluation approach mirrors the youth development approach within the organization, empowering young people and providing them with leadership opportunities.