Ciurczak & Company, Inc. offers comprehensive grant and project evaluation services, as well as assistance with grant writing.

  • Evaluation Design:
    • Collaboratively develop evaluation plan with all project stakeholders
    • Design evaluation instruments
    • Recommend commercial instruments
    • Conduct focus groups and interviews
    • Develop project specific logic models
    • Create and implement experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation designs
    • Conduct formative and summative evaluations
    • Identify key performance indicators
    • Attend professional development on areas of evaluation related to project
  • Project Evaluation:
    • Present evaluation plan and implementation timeline to stakeholders
    • Conduct needs assessments
    • Collect, analyze, and interpret data
    • Handle and store data throughout the duration of the project
    • Participate in monthly project meetings
    • Attend required grant meetings (federal or state grants)
    • Provide critical insight and guidance throughout the duration of the project
    • Report preparation as required or requested
    • Conduct site visits and write report
    • Present project evaluation results to selected audiences
    • Participate in project sustainability meetings
    • Disseminate project evaluation results at national and regional conferences when appropriate
  • Data Analysis:
    • Use of various methods as appropriate for the project
      • Traditional descriptive statistics
      • Summary statistics
      • Advanced statistical techniques
    • Use of the latest software to perform the analysis
      • Access
      • Atlas.ti
      • Excel
      • SPSS/PASW
  • Grant Writing Assistance:
    • Serve as member of grant writing team
    • Assist in development of goals and SMART objectives
    • Write evaluation component of proposal
    • Provide feedback to grant writer on entire proposal
    • Conduct needs assessments as necessary for proposal
    • Answer questions about grant writing