Evaluation Services

grassroots solutions evaluation services include:

Qualitative Evaluations

Our staff has conducted hundreds of site visits, phone interviews, and online surveys to gather information and experiential feedback about clients’ grassroots engagement efforts. We will help you distill important strategy and operational themes from your grassroots initiatives and look objectively at lessons learned. We’ll also highlight replicable best practices and make recommendations on infrastructure for you to carry forward, to strengthen your future efforts.

Quantitative Evaluations

Our analysts will help you aggregate, interpret, and learn from the measurable results you achieve in your grassroots efforts, by reviewing variances against the metrics outlined in your plans, examining your targeting strategies, reviewing any testing of grassroots tactics you may have invested in, and by conducting detailed cost analyses. We also specialize in voter file analysis, and in designing, conducting, and analyzing complicated voter registration and turnout tests.

Real Time Program Monitoring and Assessment

If you’re about to invest in new or more expansive grassroots strategies for the first time, we will help minimize your risks with rolling assessments of your engagement efforts as they unfold in real time.

Coalition and Network Evaluations

Drawing on our deep roots in coalition advocacy and other networked structures, we will help you learn what worked and what didn’t in your key partnerships, including focusing on the operational and management requirements of collaboration, on resource alignment in collaborative structures, the wider organizational and community benefits of collaboration, clarity about roles, relationships, and mutual expectations among partners, and many other issues.

Donor Investment Evaluations

Our staff works closely with individual and institutional donors and their funding recipients to assess the return on investment from their support of grassroots engagement strategies, with an eye toward both short-term results and longer-term sustainability. We will help you evaluate the effectiveness of the grassroots investments you may have made through special funding initiatives, state-based donor collaboratives, multi-year philanthropic programs, grassroots capacity-building grants, or election year political giving, among other strategies.