PROGRAM AND impact EVALUATION

Owen Consulting offers robust, flexible, and custom-tailored evaluation services to enable your organization or program to monitor and track service-delivery/progress and demonstrate impact on target outcomes. We can support your evaluation needs by:

  • Building your organization's evaluation capacity

  • Providing in-house evaluation at a fraction of the cost of hiring an internal evaluator

  • Providing third-party, independent evaluation for your organization / programs

  • Developing custom-survey and evaluation instruments to test and scale your unique programs and services

  • Creating logic-models and/or a theory of change for your organization and programs

  • Reviewing and improving current evaluation systems, tools, and approaches for your organization

Our adaptable, rigorous, and cutting-edge evaluation services are designed to accommodate organizations and programs of any size and scope. We specialize in single and multi-year evaluations that include mixed-methods, experimental and quasi-experimental designs. Owen Consulting's collaborative and participatory evaluations are designed to meet the needs and goals of all stakeholders. We also employ a utilization-focused approach: Evaluation findings are used to identify critical needs of program participants, create data-driven strategies for intervention, and to guide ongoing program improvement, capacity building, and implementation in accordance with evidence-based effective practices. 

Broad Technical Expertise: We can provide clients with expert evaluation services that include:

  • Quantitative analysis using industry-standard or custom-developed survey instruments, or analysis of public and private data relevant and available to researchers. We can provide factor analysis and other related services to test and develop customized survey instruments for validity and reliability.

  • Qualitative analysis such as focus groups, interviews, and observations. Utilization of cutting-edge qualitative analysis software enables the identification of recurrent themes or target outcomes in qualitative data/transcriptions.

  • Advanced statistical analysis - Techniques that enable robust evaluation to determine whether programs or initiatives are impacting target outcomes. Our approaches are able to demonstrate causal impact at a fraction of the time and cost required for randomized control trial (RCT) studies.

  • Development of Logic Models and/or Theories of Change to help stakeholders identify and define short and long term goals, inputs, outputs, and strategies for achieving impact and success.

  • Community Needs Assessments to help your organization / initiative understand what services, policies, and institutional supports are most needed by your constituents.

Diverse Service Areas: Owen Consulting has experience and expertise in evaluating a range of social impact, education, youth development, mentoring, and employment initiatives.  This includes serving as an Independent Evaluator for Government Grants including:

  • 21st Century Community Learning Center (21CCLC) Evaluation

  • USDOE Full-Service Community Schools Evaluation

  • US National Science Foundation Evaluation

  • US Health and Human Services / Office of Minority Health Evaluation

  • NYC DYCD Evaluation

  • NYSED Extended School Day / School Violence Prevention Evaluation

  • USSBA Community Navigator Pilot Program