Description

The Wilder Research Team will collaborate with individuals and organizations who are in need of assessing impact, identifying needs, or planning for the future for research and evaluation needs. The Research Team provides: - Community engagement framework to guide those most impacted by findings and partnering with communities to understand strengths, opportunities, and service needs to inform action for effective solutions - Data collection and analysis that includes qualitative and quantitative approaches like web, mailed, telephone, surveys, focus groups, discussions, talking circles, facilitated activities, mapping, and arts-based approaches. Analysts help make sense of data and uses culturally responsive approaches for data collection. - Research and program evaluation to work with local and national partners on needs assessments, environmental scans, literature reviews, economic analyses, and more - Strategic planning and decision-making in carefully designed activities and facilitated discussions to help organizations use data to make important decisions. Services include strategic planning, data parties, theory of change, and logic model development. - Use of plain language, graphics, and visualized data to create easy-to-understand research findings for any audience. Products tailored to needs include issue briefs, summaries, reports, infographics, and arts-based deliverables.

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