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Tools for Evidence

Our tools and resources are designed to help leaders assess and improve their data and evidence practices.

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Relational AI: From Principles to Practice in Empowering College Advisors

At Project Evident, we believe AI can help college advisors reach more students, but only if it strengthens the human relationships at the heart of advising. Multi-year intensive advising pr ...

Bridging the Data Divide: A Responsible Path Forward for AI in the Social Sector

Artificial intelligence offers a promising new approach to bridging the data divide: the growing disparity between data’s commercial use and its limited application in the social, educ ...
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Cover of the white paper Bridging the Data Divide: A Responsible Path Forward for AI in the Social Sector, featuring the subtitle “Insight and Action from Nonprofits, Funders, and Field Leaders.” The design features overlapping translucent coral and gray geometric layers connected by vertical lines and dots. Project Evident and Splunk by Cisco logos appear at the bottom left.

Supporting AI Adoption Among Community-Based Organizations: The AI Opportunity Accelerator (AIOA)

AI is evolving incredibly fast, and to prevent new forms of digital inequity as the technology advances, capacity-building efforts that target community-based organizations are essential. Pr ...

What Works In Career Exploration: An Assessment of the K-12 Evidence Base

What Works in Career Exploration is a body of research spanning career development, youth development, education, and workforce fields that provides a strong rationale for early and sustaine ...
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Laying the Groundwork for Effective Career Exploration: What Schools, Systems, and Partners Need in Place

High-quality career exploration depends on conditions that are often missing or uneven across schools and communities, including time, staffing, educator preparation, employer and community ...
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Making Career Exploration Count: Identifying Opportunities to Deliver Outcomes for Youth

This white paper presents findings from an evidence and opportunity assessment that combined research across youth development, career development, education, and workforce fields with insig ...
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Scaling Impact with AI: Emerging Patterns in Nonprofit Program Delivery

Scaling Impact with AI documents how 128 nonprofit organizations across the globe are using AI directly in program delivery — distinct from administrative or back-office functions. Drawing ...
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Close-up of a healthcare worker in green scrubs typing on a laptop while a patient holds medical paperwork, illustrating AI-supported program delivery in a frontline service setting.

Advancing K-12 Career Exploration: An Assessment of Evidence and Opportunity

Equitable, high-quality career exploration in middle and high school is essential to positive youth development, from helping them form a sense of who they are to making informed choices abo ...

Equitable AI Adoption Resource Guide: Understanding Equitable AI Adoption in the Social and Education Sectors

The EAIA Resource Guide is organized around the EAIA Framework, which identifies eight topic areas organizations should consider on their AI adoption journey. For each area, it provides a cu ...
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AI Journey Map for Philanthropy

In 2023, we developed the Responsible AI Adoption Framework for Philanthropy in collaboration with the Technology Association of Grantmakers. Since then, AI has evolved dramatically — and ...
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A chart showing Project Evident's AI Enablement Map, organizing six stages of foundation AI adoption across four phases: Emerging, Engaging Individuals, Enabling Teams, and Ecosystem Building. Each stage includes key milestones and friction points.