How REC’s Services Can Help Your Organization
As our company suggests, REC provides quality services in three key areas: Research, Evaluation, and Consulting. We help our clients go from outputs to outcomes to impact!
Our Core Services and Expertise
REC helps our clients tell their stories with meaningful data, and we work with our clients to collect evidence that shows how they make a difference!
Specialty of Work
REC works with various social sector agencies and purpose-driven organizations, providing quality research and evaluation services. REC offers a variety of statistical services coupled with program evaluation techniques. Through our services, REC helps our clients:
- Determine the effectiveness of programs and services
- Collect new data using the right metrics
- Leverage existing data for funding and marketing purposes
- Make data-driven decisions
- Conduct impact studies
- Perform needs assessments
- Create evaluation strategies
- Develop and validate evaluation instruments
- Develop and improve programs and services
- Identify organizational needs and priorities
- Use findings to facilitate, strengthen, and promote effective organizational practices
- Create strategies that promote organizational sustainability
- Report findings to various stakeholder groups
- Interpret results so that appropriate strategies can be implemented
Our Expertise
REC has expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Quantitatively, REC provides expertise in descriptive (i.e., means, frequencies), inferential (i.e., t-tests, ANOVA), and correlational statistics, as well as scale validation and development. REC frequently conducts pre-test / post-test analyses for our clients. Qualitatively, REC has expertise in Grounded Theory, identifying patterns and trends from data. REC has extensive experience in survey design, facilitating interviews and focus groups, analyzing existing data, conducting literature reviews, and reporting results. We develop data collection tools specific to the communities we serve and are responsive to the needs of our clients.
REC staff excel in our interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. We produce publications for lay audiences (e.g., blogs, trainings) and peer-reviewed journals (e.g., academic publications, white papers, reports for national dissemination). REC works with clients to ask, answer, and address their pressing needs and concerns. Through regular and consistent communication, we keep our clients informed. Our clients become well-equipped to make data-informed decisions that support their programs and organizational goals. REC also offers trainings, coaching, and professional development to help clients build their evaluation capacity.
Our Approach
REC provides clients various professional and customized services that facilitate, strengthen, and promote effective organizational practices. We represent an integrated team of research and evaluation professionals who focus on helping organizations achieve optimum results through collaboration, innovation, and strategy. We partner with our clients to implement effective data collection methods based on best practices.
REC is a people-centered, results-driven firm that works with our clients to deliver results you can trust.
REC works with our clients to thoroughly, objectively, and accurately measure and quantify impact. We bring our expertise in research and evaluation methods and encourage our clients to bring their subject matter expertise to the project. This collaborative approach allows us to support our clients’ continuous learning and identify areas for growth. We are committed to cultivating strong client relationships based on integrity, commitment, and a shared project vision.