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The QED Group, LLC is a 8(a) certified consulting firm with proven track record in performance management, monitoring & evaluation, & social science research. QED has successfully managed projects for diverse clients including the USAID, U.S. federal government agencies, including HUD, USTDA, the World Bank, and host country governments. QED’s core competencies include performance monitoring & evaluation, knowledge management, economic growth, health and social services, & democracy & governance. QED has designed and implemented performance monitoring, evaluation, & knowledge management systems globally & in virtually every sector. QED specializes in the design and implementation of impact, program & project evaluations & analysis.

Branch Associates, Inc. provides research, evaluation and technical assistance services and supports for nonprofit organizations, foundations, government agencies and private sector organizations. At Branch Associates, Inc., they believe that a client-centered and interactive approach to research design and analysis yields useful information that is accessible to policy makers and practitioners alike. In its work, Branch Associates, Inc. combines the rigor of social science research and the savvy of experienced program evaluators and technical assistance providers in order to provide clients with rigorous assessments of program effectiveness, and the factors contributing to it. Clients are also provided with concrete recommendations for program innovation and policy change.

Brown Buckley Tucker is a consulting firm that takes a ‘Practical Idealism’ approach -- a belief that high ideals are not only compatible with careful and pragmatic analysis, but that technical knowledge alone is ineffective unless it is driven by passion and commitment to excellence.

Education Consultants assist leaders of public, private and not-for-profit organizations in writing proposals, implementing and evaluating programs. Leaders of public, private and not-for-profit organizations have many recurring challenges. The scope of these challenges includes a broad range of issues such as evaluating the effectiveness of programs, writing proposals and designing and implementing programs. It is the mission at Education Consultants, LLC, to assist the clients as you confront the challenges of your organization by bringing objectivity, technical expertise and over thirty years of experience on individual and on-going evaluation projects.

Bowman Performance Consulting, LLC (BPC) is a certified federal 8A, minority, and woman owned business. BPC provides unique social science research, technical assistance, and evaluation services for public, private, and Tribal organizations. BPC gathers measurable and meaningful data from the clients and their stakeholders/customers so that individuals, programs, and organizations function more efficiently and effectively for the long-term. BPC services fall under four main categories: research, development, implementation, and evaluation.

Since 1986, Clegg & Associates has been helping governments, non-profits, and foundations improve their organizations and outcomes. Drawing on their backgrounds in evaluation, facilitation, community planning and organizational development, they customize projects to fit clients’ interests and internal capabilities. Their work spans child and youth development, education, health, housing, social justice and community development. They design and implement process and outcome-based evaluations. They facilitate processes that articulate program content and outcomes and the theory behind them. They identify creative data collection approaches, capitalizing on existing resources to achieve greater efficiency. They train and coach groups to build their internal evaluation capacity, making evaluation a more sustainable enterprise. They work on quality improvement with clients to identify barriers related to program theory and design or organizational structure that impede achievement of outcomes.

LaFrance Associates, LLC (LFA) is a San Francisco-based consulting group serving the nonprofit, philanthropic, and public sectors with research, evaluation, and technical assistance services. Providing Vital Information LFA provides clients with useful data and analysis so that they can meet their goals more effectively. Building Capacity the approach builds the capabilities of individuals and organizations to understand and utilize information. Partnering in the Process LaFrance Associates engages clients and seeks their input at every project stage so that the work produces valuable results.

Usable Knowledge provides program evaluation and consulting services to organizations that need to understand how their work impacts those they serve. What distinguishes Usable Knowledge is a belief that program evaluation is only successful when it creates usable knowledge. For Usable Knowledge, this means knowledge that can be deployed to improve a program and help it grow. Creating useable knowledge requires not only an in-depth understanding of an organization and program, but also an appreciation of context within which they exist. It requires an ability to generate meaningful evaluation questions and a strategy for communicating findings that makes them accessible to those able to put recommendations into action. Usable Knowledge believes that their approach does just that.

Murphy Educational Consluting provides research, evaluation, data management and professional development for educational, not-for-profit, private and public organizations. They are a flexible, reliable, and creative team that will work closely with you through all the steps of the project. Nora Murphy, the founder and owner, has experience as a classroom teacher and non-profit program manager, helping her understand the experiences and needs of Murphy Educational Consulting's clients. They are located in Chicago, IL (USA) and have particular experience working with data related to the ISAT, PSAE, Explore, Plan & ACT. They also have experience working with schools to develop a formative interim assessment project. They also have experience in all stages of the evaluation project from formulating the central evaluation questions, to the literature review, evaluation design, instrument design, data collection & analysis and reporting.

Research and Educational Services (REdS) - Providing evaluation and training services for the southern United States. Areas of specialization are public health, Survey development, development of outcome measures associated with a variety of programs and projects. REdS has participated in evaluation of the United States Dept of Education Regional lab system, Center for Disease Control and Prevention studies on AIDS Counseling protocols, Numerous curriculum and program evaluations. They have in house scanning scoring and report development capabilities.