Evaluation Services

Measure your Impact and Learn Valuable Insights

How do you know the services your organization provides are effective? How do you quantify, measure, and increase your impact? How do you track and monitor your outcomes? How do you interpret results? REC can help answer these difficult questions and give your organization valuable insight. Whether your organization needs to design a study, investigate and leverage your customers, feels lost in data, or seeks results you can trust – REC can help!

Our evaluation services can help you track your outcomes, determine how well your programs and services are working, identify areas for growth and improvement, become more competitive for funding, and make a bigger impact in the communities you serve!

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REC works with our clients to provide quality evaluation services that include:

  • Impact studies – Conduct a study that determines the effectiveness of your programs, trainings, or services across various stakeholders
  • Program evaluation – create logic models and theories of change that guide your evaluation approach, this includes evaluation plans (i.e., process, outcome, impact), formative and summative evaluation projects
  • Organizational assessment – identification of strengths and areas for improvement, organizational audits, diagnostics, customer satisfaction surveys
  • Data tracking – dashboards, tracking tools, monitoring systems
  • Grant reporting – progress and annual reports for funders that require an external evaluator

Why Evaluation Matters

Evaluation is not just a tool for accountability; it is a pathway to growth and innovation. By systematically assessing your programs and services, your organization can see evidence of its impact, identify what works, what doesn’t, and how to improve.

  • Boost Stakeholder Confidence: Demonstrate the effectiveness of your programs builds trust with funders, partners, and the communities you serve.
  • Track Your Progress: Determine whether your initiatives are achieving their intended goals and where adjustments might be necessary.
  • Enhance Strategic Planning: Evaluation provides actionable insights that inform future goals and initiatives.
  • Secure Funding: Funders increasingly require evidence of impact, and robust evaluations can strengthen your grant proposals.
  • Drive Continuous Improvement: Ongoing assessment ensures your organization remains adaptable and focused on delivering value.

What Our Clients Are Saying

The insights we gained from the evaluation have supported our strategic business decisions and provided clear focus for our marketing team.

Ruth Williams
President & CEO, Community Initiatives
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Annette and her team have worked closely with our leadership and program teams to consider the challenges and benefits of evaluating programs in the early stages of development and the overall long-term impact of our organization.

Karolyn Tregembo
Executive Director, The Consortium
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REC’s evaluation of our program’s effectiveness helped us build momentum in creating a global strategy for workplace suicide prevention. We learned what the participants’ main concerns were and what they resonated with, and changed our approach to best suit their needs.

Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas
Psychologist and International Mental Health & SuicidePrevention Impact Entrepreneur
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