What can Improve Group do for you?

Explore.

The world around you impacts how effective you are and how you deliver services. You may have questions such as: Is the community around us changing? Do my program participants have different concerns or opportunities than when I first developed my programs? Are there effective ways that other organizations are implementing programs that I could adopt? The Improve Group can help you explore these questions through:

• Needs assessment
• Promising, emerging and best practices review
• Experimental research
• Facilitation of community groups
• Assessing evaluation readiness and identifying different evaluation approaches

Learn.

Evaluation and research help support learning organizations – those organizations that encourage creativity and increased knowledge to achieve their aims. The Improve Group can help you to investigate whether your programs are achieving their desired effect, how the quality of your programs is perceived among a variety of constituents, what you could build upon or improve, or how you should focus your energy, time and financial resources to have the greatest impact. Our services that help you learn include:

• Program evaluation
• Organizational evaluation
• Design and planning of surveys, focus groups, observations and other instruments
• Technical assistance on evaluation
• Scientific studies
• Qualitative research – learning the meaning and context of results
• Quantitative research – learning the facts and incidence of results

Build.

You have a vision for how you want your organization to impact the world around you, and you want your organization to help bring that vision to fruition. To help meet these challenges, leadership, staff, volunteers and supporters must continually grow, and be prepared for the changes the future will bring. The Improve Group can help your organization grow through:

• Values clarification
• Mission and vision development
• Goal development and benchmarking
• Strategic and organizational planning
• Community and constituent engagement
• Work planning
• Capacity-building around evaluation and research