One Year Later: Catching Up With Our Spring 2020 Talent Accelerator Cohort

Project Evident’s Talent Accelerator program uses an equity frame to help a diverse cohort of practitioners strengthen their data, decision-making, and evidence-building skills to improve outcomes. Over the course of 20 weeks, participants build the capacity to generate and use data and evidence for program improvement through a virtual cohort model that includes a mix…

Talent Accelerator: A Data and Evidence Journey

Project Evident’s Talent Accelerator program uses an equity frame to help a diverse cohort of practitioners strengthen their data, decision-making, and evidence-building skills to improve outcomes. We asked past participants to share what they learned from the Talent Accelerator and how it has impacted the evidence practices of their organizations.

Making Wise Decisions: A Data Resource for Practitioners

Project Evident is delighted to announce our partnership with Making Wise Decisions, a project of the SH Cowell Foundation.  Developed by B3 Consults and Public Profit, the Making Wise Decisions toolkit is a series of resources meant to assist small to mid-sized nonprofit organizations with choosing and implementing the data tools they will need to…

Project Evident Launches the Next Generation of Evidence Campaign

Since our founding, Project Evident has advocated for a new approach to building and using evidence in the social sector. Today, our dissatisfaction with the status quo is deeper than ever, as is our commitment to addressing racism and inequality of opportunity. And we believe that a stronger, more equitable data and evidence ecosystem –…

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Ed Tech Products

A recent review by The Hechinger Report highlights the challenges for educators in navigating claims about the effectiveness of ed tech products, which are especially critical now as schools pivot to online learning. Our Education Practice partners with schools and districts, helping them build the internal capacity to study the impact of a given product on their…

The Next Generation of Evidence Will Be Practitioner-Led

After learning about a new data-sharing agreement between St. Paul’s schools and government, education justice advocate Marika Pfefferkorn became concerned. She felt that the agreement, which had gone into effect with little community involvement or awareness, had the potential to perpetuate racial disparities in Minnesota’s educational and criminal justice systems – specifically through predictive analytics…

Continuous Improvement and Evidence Building

Nonprofit organizations face high demand from communities for services, and increasing expectations from funders and policymakers for evidence of impact. For many years, traditional evaluations, such as randomized control trials (RCT), have been used to demonstrate the impact of programs. This evidence building method, if done prematurely, can often leave nonprofits with findings of minimal…

The Role of the Practitioner in the Next Generation of Evidence

In the next generation model for evidence building, we envision that practitioners become the drivers of their evidence agendas, equipped with the strategies, tools, and talent they need to rigorously evaluate their programs and strengthen outcomes for the communities they serve. We imagine an ecosystem less governed by power, misplaced incentives, and sluggish learning, and…