SERVICES
Program Evaluation
Ripple evaluations serve as a cornerstone in maximizing the effectiveness and impact of intergroup relations programs, equipping you to tell the story of what has been achieved, and unleashing learning to inform future program development. Our utilization-focused approach ensures that evaluation insights become catalysts for refining future strategies and implementation.
SERVICES
Program Evaluation
Ripple evaluations serve as a cornerstone in maximizing the effectiveness and impact of intergroup relations programs, equipping you to tell the story of what has been achieved, and unleashing learning to inform future program development. Our utilization-focused approach ensures that evaluation insights become catalysts for refining future strategies and implementation.
Ripple’s Evaluation Distinctives
Ripple’s Evaluation Distinctives
Quality interaction
We emphasize participation, quality interaction among diverse stakeholders and deep listening to program participants.
Culturally responsive
Ripple customizes methods to align with the worldviews and experiences of our partners, making us a leader in the culturally responsive evaluation of interfaith collaboration programs.
Strong qualitative methods
Our in-house capacity features strong qualitative methods expertise with light integration of quantitative components, with complementary team members added when other specialties are needed.
Ripple can help with:
Special Focus: Outcome Harvesting
We specialize in Outcome Harvesting and other emergent methods for evaluating social change initiatives in complex contexts. Ripple’s groundbreaking Outcome Harvesting + Attitude Change adaptation makes it possible to explore internal transformation and its relationship to behavior change, especially in situations like intergroup relationships, where both aspects are integral to grasping program results. Outcome Harvesting also combines well with other approaches, including Contribution Analysis and Ripple Effects Mapping. These are practitioner-friendly approaches, and we offer training and coaching to help develop skills within your organization.
Outcome Harvesting: Justice, power and looking backward
In this post, Michelle Garred and Matteah Spencer Reppart suggest that Outcome Harvesting has the potential to disrupt culturally Western assumptions in program evaluation through the use of retrospective logic. Outcome Harvesting (OH) is unique among evaluation approaches because it looks backward in time to identify outcomes, rather than relying on the [...]
