Working with organizations who serve the ADHD community, I’ve come to realize that my lived experience with ADHD isn’t just a personal trait; it’s a powerful tool for connecting with people and understanding them. Whether it’s with adults and youth navigating their own ADHD or with parents supporting children with ADHD, there’s an inherent understanding
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: Canadian Woman’s Foundation (CWF) TNC delivered a research report examining the mental health climate for Two-Spirit, Nonbinary, Trans, and Questioning Girls and Black, Indigenous, and racialized girls in Canada. For this report, TNC conducted focus groups with Indigenous-led and Queer-led youth-serving organizations and held discussions with racialized, Indigenous, and queer youth. The final report,
Partner: The Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health. TNC conducted a large-scale developmental evaluation of Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario mental health initiative, with a specific focus on youth and family engagement activities within the broader initiative. In partnership with the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health, TNC
Partner: BGC Canada Conducted a case study evaluation with six pilot agencies to inform a national 12-week youth substance use and addiction prevention program. The toolkit followed a strengths-focused, inclusive, trauma informed approach. It was sensitive to diverse identities and experiences and applied the principles of harm reduction. The program also contained a guardian training
TNC is excited to spotlight the excellent work of The Re-Seasoning Coalition, a non-profit organization disrupting the foodservice industry by creating more opportunities for the advancement of Black people across all levels of the sector. The Coalition’s work is anchored in race-based research, allowing them to leverage data to help partners uncover biases, blind spots,
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
Partner: Canadian Women’s Foundation This soon to be launched online course focuses on teaching allies, survivors, and organizations about technology-facilitated gender based violence and strategies for combating online hate. TNC was hired by the CWF to design and carry out an evaluation for measuring the impact and implementation of this course. To date we have
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
Did you know that Taylor Newberry Consulting has 15 years of experience working with over 200 organizations on projects related to mental health. 👏 We are excited about this much-needed federal investment in youth mental health! TNC is excited to collaborate on submissions for the Youth Mental Health Fund call for proposals(link). Why Choose Taylor
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
A good evaluation survey is one that accurately measures the things we want to know. One common challenge with getting accurate results is ceiling effects – a design problem in which survey participants respond overly positively to questions related to their knowledge, attitudes, or behaviours before a program intervention. Ceiling effects cause challenges when assessing
Many traditional grant application forms require nonprofits to include evaluation plans as part of their submission. We know that this part of the application is often one of the most challenging sections for applicants to complete. We also know that funders often find the information provided in this section to be less useful than they
At TNC, we often use our evaluations as an avenue to support equity seeking groups and advocate for their needs. We believe that evaluations being conducted in vulnerable and equity-seeking communities should strive to understand community-identified needs. Evaluators need to provide flexibility in terms of timelines for data collection, and should incorporate capacity building efforts
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.
Ben Liadsky and Andrew Taylor, Taylor Newberry ConsultingJulia Coffman and Albertina Lopez, Center for Evaluation Innovation In this blog post, Albertina Lopez, Julia Coffman, Ben Liadsky, and Andrew Taylor reflect on how learning showed up in interviews with leaders from seven foundations and offer some thoughts on what the philanthropic sector still needs to pay
