The two of us started TNC 16 years ago, in a coffee shop in Guelph. We were already experienced community researchers, and so we knew that we wanted our new firm to focus on people and relationships, and not just ideas or methods. We wanted to work with organizations that we believed in, in ways
TNC is excited to announce that we have promoted Katelyn Mitri to the position of Senior Research Consultant. In just two years with our team, Katelyn has demonstrated exceptional ability in designing and leading complex research projects, while building strong working relationships with our partners. Her unique perspective, informed by a Ph.D. in Sociology, experience
The First in our Series Entitled: Finding the Right Methods We recently completed a three year evaluation of The Lawson Foundation’s Outdoor Play Strategy, which was designed to build adult capacity to impact outdoor play in early learning and child care (ELCC) and support systemic change. The project gave us amazing opportunities to visit projects
Partner: Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre We are currently working with the Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre (ORCC) to evaluate the implementation and impact of two concurrent projects funded by WAGE. ORCC is currently developing an anti-oppressive guidebook that is intended to be used by service providers providing support to survivors of sexual violence and gender-based violence
Partner: BGC Canada Designed to reduce teen dating violence, Respect2Connect supports youth to develop and sustain healthy relationships by equipping them with appropriate tools and techniques. TNC conducted a literature review on teen dating violence prevention programs and consulted with Club staff to test concepts, skills and design principles associated with design options. TNC consulted
Partner: Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN) TNC led a two-pronged research and evaluation project for SIECCAN in support of WAGE funding. The funding was to develop and implement sexual health education guidelines and benchmarks for the prevention of gender-based violence. TNC completed a literature review that explored the implicit and explicit connections
A Blog Series At TNC, we are always thinking about better ways to help our clients gather the data that they need. We never want to become wedded to a narrow, rigid set of methods. Sometimes, this process leads us to try out new methods that we have not tried before. At other times, it
Partner: United Way Toronto United Way Greater Toronto (United Way), in partnership with the General Mills Foundation and Greater Twin Cities United Way, piloted a grant stream intended to strengthen Mississauga’s food system. The grant had a strong emphasis on building the evaluation capacity of funded organizations. United Way hired TNC to complete an environmental scan
Partner: Community Food Centres Canada CFCC’s Market Greens pilot program was designed to promote food access by offering fruit and vegetable incentives to 320 families with low incomes that were redeemable at two markets in Ontario (Stratford and Midland). TNC evaluated the pilot using a mixed-methods approach including participant surveys, interviews with program participants, staff
For the first time in two years, the TNC team gathered in person last week for a picnic and an outdoor staff meeting at Guelph’s Royal City Park.
TNC is very pleased to announce that Karla Stroud has been promoted to the role of Principal Consultant at TNC. Karla originally joined us as a student intern back in 2014. She quickly became a key member of the team, and was promoted to Senior Researcher in 2018. Karla has led much of TNCs work in the area
Many of our partners at TNC, including The Metcalf Foundation, 10C, and Canada’s National Ballet School , use the arts to build community. Others, including the Child and Nature Alliance of Canada, Focus on Nature, and the Lawson Foundation, highlight the benefits of being outdoors and cultivating a stronger relationship to the natural world. Through
We are very pleased to announce that Vashisht has moved into the position of Senior Research Consultant at Taylor Newberry Consulting. Since joining TNC in February of 2019, Vashisht has worked on a wide range of evaluation projects for clients ranging from the National Ballet School and Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada to Ryerson
Andrew Taylor and Ben Liadsky, Taylor Newberry ConsultingJulia Coffman and Albertina Lopez, Center for Evaluation Innovation In this blog post, we share some thoughts on a theoretical frame that emerged during our discussions about evaluation and learning in philanthropy. This blog post follows up our recent publication: Approaches to Learning Amid Crises: Reflections from Philanthropy.
I chose a very different career path from my Dad, Bob. He is an engineer who spent his career in the nuclear power industry. He worked for a while at the United Nations in Vienna, travelling around the world evaluating the practices at nuclear power plants. After reading a paper I co-wrote last fall,
Co-researchers can play a key role in projects and are an integral part of the team at TNC. Co-researchers have taken active roles in areas such as project planning and development, administration, data collection, facilitation, and analysis. They each bring unique perspectives, skills, and lived experience that often makes the projects they are involved in
Today marks the beginning of TNC’s 10th anniversary year. This is the first of a series of posts reflecting on our practice and our mission. At TNC, we choose partners carefully. Whether you are a grantmaker, a frontline service provider, a local government department, a national network or a capacity builder, we
NOTE: A version of this post was originally published at Tamarack’s Communities Collaborating Institute Online. Here at Taylor Newberry, when we do evaluation work, we try our best to create surveys and tools that are thoughtful, accessible, and useful. We try to avoid creating mindless paperwork. I have just finished reading The Utopia of Rules: On Technology,
