Moving Forward Together: Utilizing Evaluation Technical Assistance to Promote Equitable Evaluation

October 16, 2024 | by Domonique Edwards, Vanessa Gomez, Mildred Ferrer, Jared Zachary and Cristina Magaña

Originally posted on AEA365, which is sponsored by the American Evaluation Association (AEA): Hi fellow evaluators, this is Domonique, Vanessa, Mili, Jared, and Cristina of Harder + Company Community Research who works with public and social-sector organizations to promote lasting change. This blog post focuses on evaluation…

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My Retirement and the Next Act for Harder+Company

January 31, 2018 | by Paul Harder

As I get ready to retire as CEO of Harder+Company in a few months, I have been thinking a lot about how the field we work in—the social sector in…

Harder+Company’s Next Chapter

January 31, 2018 | by Michelle Magee

We have some big news to share about changes at Harder+Company Community Research this year. At the end of March, Harder+Company founder Paul Harder will retire as CEO. Paul’s contribution…

Raising Awareness of Rural Community Needs

December 19, 2017 | by Willow Mata and Ana Quiroz

Three hours from both San Francisco and Los Angeles, Fresno County lies at the center of California’s Central Valley, home to farmland that grows a significant portion of the nation’s…

Where to find Harder+Company at #eval17

October 18, 2017 | by Kevin Rafter

We look forward to joining evaluation colleagues in Washington DC at the upcoming annual conference of the American Evaluation Association. If you are attending the conference, our staff will be…

Building Diversity in the Evaluation Field

September 21, 2017 | by Cristina Magaña and Willow Mata

Incorporating culturally responsive and equity-focused evaluation methods is key to ensuring that evaluation findings are effective and useful, especially when working with vulnerable communities. At Harder+Company, we support equity-focused evaluation methods…

Building a Data Set for Systems Change

September 5, 2017 | by Raúl Martínez and Rami Arafah

California has invested a significant amount of money and time to build an impressive early care and education system to serve over 500,000 children under age 5. Understandably, it is…