• Incorporating Geographic Methods into Qualitative Data Collection — a teaser

    Incorporating Geographic Methods into Qualitative Data Collection — a teaser

    We are very excited to be working with Dr. AÍda Guhlincozzi on the RISE project to help improve equity with community health systems. One major strength that Dr. Guhlincozzi brings… Read More

  • That’s the good stuff

    Just sharing a quick image from our good colleague, David Zimmerman at Mind. Cheers!

  • Using news as an evalution source

    For our work in CDC-RISE, we are using all sorts of unobtrusive measures and data sources to understand conditions in the communities we are working with. This post over at… Read More

  • Revisiting Elinor Ostrom

    For ReSOLV, we’ve been discussing how this paper could be valuable in thinking through the different levels of readiness and readiness behaviors. The one thing that I really love is… Read More

  • The Purpose of a Community Assessment Tool: How We Use it In Various Projects

    The Purpose of a Community Assessment Tool: How We Use it In Various Projects

    Community capacity building is hard. That is no secret. Oftentimes, community teams have a challenge just identifying both the strengths and their areas for growth. This is where a set… Read More

  • Just some pretty pictures

    We just dialed up a pretty comprehensive evaluation with CDC and the RISE network. We plan on sharing a bunch of our learning as we go along, but until I… Read More

  • Community Psychology Topical Interest Group Business Meeting: Planning for the future

    It’s been a busy year for the American Evaluation Association’s Community Psychology Topical Interest Group. Over the past few years, we have grown from just a small group of disconnected… Read More

  • A brief social services story with no ending.

    Hello from Denver. Our team is focused on our sister project, PubTrawlr, at the American Public Health Association conference. It’s been a great time, and we’ve met some really great… Read More

  • Our black metal logo

    Last year, we used an awesome Halloween logo designed by Neon_Cacti on Fiverr. With APHA coming up, along with some associated projects, I can’t be as silly this year. But, we… Read More

  • The Brief Readiness Thinking Tool

    As we get closer to our official launch of the Readiness Learning System, we wanted to promote the Brief Readiness Thinking Tool. This easy-to-use document helps your team deeply consider… Read More

  • New Home!

    New Home!

    Oh hey! As a lot of people know, we focus on getting good ideas into practice. That takes many forms, from evaluation, to research, to training, to technical assistance, to… Read More

  • Updates coming (soonish)

    Updates coming (soonish)

    So, since the last time I dove into this site, we’ve have a bunch of projects start, a bunch of projects stop, and a lot of fun in between. I’ll… Read More