At Epiphany, we provide comprehensive, data-driven evaluation services targeted toward providing organizations with the clarity they need to put their best foot forward. Strong organizations don't occur overnight – they continually improve - and that improvement doesn't occur without the right data and support.
The Benefits of Our Evaluation Services
Our evaluation services take a deep dive into how your organization works, what its key performance metrics are, and whether it's achieving its goals effectively. Once we conduct an "audit" of your operations, we're able to help you focus on the specific outcomes of your organization.
Ask yourself:
What is it that your organization is hoping to achieve?
What is preventing your organization from meeting its goals?
Are there specific challenges that need to be addressed?
Are there things that are workingthat need to be emphasized?
Organizations often grow organically and develop and scale over time. This means that your organization may not be as fine-tuned or structured as it could be. Periodic assessments, analytics, and audits are necessary to ensure that your organization is using its resources in the most effective way. Through continued auditing and analysis, you can be certain that your organization is serving your community with the effectiveness you desire.
Getting the Right Level of Intervention for Your Organization
Not every organization needs a significant intervention. At Epiphany, we work to understand organizations at their core, and we identify the least amount of intervention we can do to produce the best results. This improves outcomes and reduces disruption, while also capturing what makes your organization unique, special, and effective.
Community action, community change, services provided, resources generated, and media/marketing — we look into specific areas of the organization (and the organization as a whole) to ensure that we know what should remain and what needs to change. Through our auditing process, we are able to identify the areas of the organization that are working and effective. From there, we are able to augment your organization with new processes, procedures, technology, and media so you can engage your community with even greater levels of depth.
Achieving Constant Levels of Improvement
Not only do organizations change over time, but the needs of the community change too. Organizations can't move into a community and foster change immediately. Likewise, even if they are effecting change now, that doesn't mean they will be able to continue to do so in the future. Time, commitment, and steady improvement are required to ensure that the organization is effective in the beginning and that it is able to stay relevant in the future. Epiphany reviews organizations and their communities with an objective eye, working to ensure that they are still meeting the vision with which they started.
There are many ways evaluation services can help an organization on a continuous basis:
Increase impact by ensuring that the organization is meeting its goals.
Create reports and analysis for funders to encourage support.
Develop a compelling story for stakeholders and the community.
Boost morale (and hence productivity) among staff members.
Advance the field by identifying what works.
Guided by science from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Evaluation Association, and the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, Epiphany is able to deliver organizations with the knowledge and structure they need to utilize their resources most effectively. Epiphany works to help organizations present themselves to key stakeholders, to ensure that the organization is leveraging its capital as effectively as possible, and to engage the community.
Want to learn more about our evaluation services? Contact us today. We're standing by to answer your questions.
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