Evaluation of The Community Food System Grants Program: Building the capacity of grassroots food security organizations

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

Evaluation of The Ujima Project: Helping underserved mothers access early childhood and maternal care

Partner: Abiona Centre The Ujima Project is a pilot project focused on bringing mental health and early literacy support, developmental screening, and family navigation services to underserved mothers and their children. The Abiona Centre, the project’s lead agency, contracted TNC to conduct a multi-year evaluation across nine participating agencies. This evaluation examines the Ujima Project’s

Evaluation of Pacewood: The first dedicated 2SLGBTQ+ shelter for queer refugees in Toronto

Partners: The 519 and Homes First TNC has been working with both The 519 – a 2SLGBTQ+ community center based in Toronto, and Homes First – a shelter provider in the GTA to evaluate their partnership and the development of the first dedicated 2SLGBTQ+ shelter for queer refugees in Toronto. As part of this project

Evaluation of Market Greens: The role of incentives in in promoting food access

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

OUR STAFF ARE THE HEART OF WHAT WE DO: GET TO KNOW LAINE

At Taylor Newberry Consulting we are grateful to be able to connect to incredibly talented, passionate and dedicated individuals. We are especially fortunate that some of these individuals have chosen to call themselves “TNCers”. We are continually inspired by members of our staff who share laughs, values, and learnings. Periodically, our website will feature a

TNC in a Glass

May 20th, 2020 marked TNC’s 10th anniversary. We planned to get together to celebrate then, but of course the world had other plans. So we waited until this year to honour all that we have built since 2010. We brought staff and associates together at 10C on May 24th to play pin the outcome on

Our staff are the heart of what we do: Get to know Paul

At Taylor Newberry Consulting we are grateful to be able to connect to incredibly talented, passionate and dedicated individuals. We are especially fortunate that some of these individuals have chosen to call themselves “TNCers”. We are continually inspired by members of our staff who share laughs, values, and learnings. Periodically, our website will feature a

Creating Surveys that can Detect Small but Meaningful Changes: Lessons Learned in our Work with Big Brothers Big Sisters Canada

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

Collecting Children’s Stories of Life During the Pandemic: Evaluation for Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation

TNC recently had the pleasure of working with the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation (CCLF) to conduct a developmental evaluation of a great new program for children and youth. Lost & Found is a program intended to give children the tools to communicate their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to embed their experiences into Canada’s

3 Strategies for Survey Success

How many surveys have passed through your inbox in the past year? Personally, I’m invited to respond to at least one a month; for example, event feedback surveys, COVID vaccine side effect monitoring surveys, shopping feedback surveys, or university students doing thesis research who need data from my demographic. There is a hunger for data

Our staff are the heart of what we do: Get to know Amy

At Taylor Newberry Consulting we are grateful to be able to connect to incredibly talented, passionate and dedicated individuals. We are especially fortunate that some of these individuals have chosen to call themselves “TNCers”. We are continually inspired by members of our staff who share laughs, values, and learnings. Periodically, our website will feature a

Our staff are the heart of what we do: Get to know Sara

At Taylor Newberry Consulting we are grateful to be able to connect to incredibly talented, passionate and dedicated individuals. We are especially fortunate that some of these individuals have chosen to call themselves “TNCers”. We are continually inspired by members of our staff who share laughs, values, and learnings. Each month our website will feature

Our staff are the heart of what we do: Get to know Khalood

At Taylor Newberry Consulting we are grateful to be able to connect to incredibly talented, passionate and dedicated individuals. We are especially fortunate that some of these individuals have chosen to call themselves “TNCers”. We are continually inspired by members of our staff who share laughs, values, and learnings. Each month our website will feature

Working with SVP Teens

It has been our absolute pleasure at TNC to work with SVP Teens, a youth-led nonprofit initiative in Waterloo Region. These young leaders create positive community level change by executing volunteer fundraisers so proceeds can be donated to other local nonprofits and charities.  We were involved with SVP Teens as an external evaluator from November

Our staff are the heart of what we do: Get to know Jen

At Taylor Newberry Consulting we are grateful to be able to connect to incredibly talented, passionate and dedicated individuals. We are especially fortunate that some of these individuals have chosen to call themselves “TNCers”. We are continually inspired by members of our staff who share laughs, values, and learnings. Each month our website will feature

Our staff are the heart of what we do: Get to know Kamaria

At Taylor Newberry Consulting we are grateful to be connected to incredibly talented, passionate and dedicated individuals.  We are especially fortunate that some of these individuals have chosen to call themselves “TNCers”. We are continually inspired by members of our staff who share laughs, values, and learnings. Each month our website will feature a different