Schmeeckle Research
Research and Evaluation for Organizations
1701 South 17th Street, Suite 2A • Lincoln, Nebraska 68502 • 402-477-5407 • joyce@schmeeckleresearch.com
How do you know if your organization is making a difference?
Through the use of information gathering and data collection, your organization can measure the extent to which you are accomplishing your mission.
Schmeeckle Research Inc. provides program evaluation, research and statistical analysis, and consulting to nonprofit and for profit organizations. Schmeeckle Research Inc. designs and implements effective evaluation plans (i.e., logic models) for grant-funded programs and other organizational initiatives, and then conducts valid and reliable and evaluations. Statistical analysis, data interpretation, and reporting the results transfer collected data into meaningful and useful information for the organization.
Schmeeckle Research Inc. offers a personalized and individualized approach to research and evaluation for organizations where program context and organizational culture is considered. A philosophy of pragmatic and business-like approach to evaluation services and projects ensures a cost-efficient approach and ultimately is designed to help organizations improve programs and initiatives through the use of credible and unbiased information.
The benefit of conducting research and evaluation to organizations include
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Improved services to clients and customers
- Increase your knowledge of the needs of your clients and customers
- Increased organizational effectiveness
- Improved efficiency of the organization
- Improved accountability
- Strengthening funder relationship
- Understanding organizational strengths and weaknesses
- More effective strategic planning based on collected data
- Increased knowledge of community or neighborhood needs
- Recognition of achievement of goals and outcomes
- Organizational learning (Five Ways Leaders Can Leverage Evaluation)
"Evaluation, when it’s done right, helps grant makers reflect critically on their strategies, ground their assumptions in trust, and receive feedback from a wide range of stakeholders."
-Edward W. Wilson, The Headwaters Group
