Ciurczak & Company, Inc. offers comprehensive grant and project evaluation services, as well as assistance with grant writing.
- Evaluation Design:
- Collaboratively develop evaluation plan with all project stakeholders
- Design evaluation instruments
- Recommend commercial instruments
- Conduct focus groups and interviews
- Develop project specific logic models
- Create and implement experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation designs
- Conduct formative and summative evaluations
- Identify key performance indicators
- Attend professional development on areas of evaluation related to project
- Project Evaluation:
- Present evaluation plan and implementation timeline to stakeholders
- Conduct needs assessments
- Collect, analyze, and interpret data
- Handle and store data throughout the duration of the project
- Participate in monthly project meetings
- Attend required grant meetings (federal or state grants)
- Provide critical insight and guidance throughout the duration of the project
- Report preparation as required or requested
- Conduct site visits and write report
- Present project evaluation results to selected audiences
- Participate in project sustainability meetings
- Disseminate project evaluation results at national and regional conferences when appropriate
- Data Analysis:
- Use of various methods as appropriate for the project
- Traditional descriptive statistics
- Summary statistics
- Advanced statistical techniques
- Use of the latest software to perform the analysis
- Access
- Atlas.ti
- Excel
- SPSS/PASW
- Use of various methods as appropriate for the project
- Grant Writing Assistance:
- Serve as member of grant writing team
- Assist in development of goals and SMART objectives
- Write evaluation component of proposal
- Provide feedback to grant writer on entire proposal
- Conduct needs assessments as necessary for proposal
- Answer questions about grant writing
