Research & Evaluation
OMNI Institute’s Research & Evaluation projects address critical social challenges and achieve meaningful and sustainable impacts that lead to improved social conditions. Specializing in quantitative and qualitative methods, we welcome the complexity of work conducted in real-world settings.
Our experts are oriented toward inclusive partnership approaches and apply evidence-based and innovative methods to ensure meaningful information is generated through both rich community stories and insightful data and analytics.
Learn more about our services below.
Needs Assessments
We identify unique community assets, surface gaps and needs, and create a shared prioritization of issues for you and your constituent communities.
Literature Reviews
Our researchers analyze existing resources to filter the best practices and theories that will set a strong foundation for your context and shape your next research and programmatic steps.
Building Logic & Theory of
Change Models
We help you and your partners understand and articulate your core purpose and the critical strategies for achieving your desired community outcomes.
Participant Surveys
We ask the right questions of the right audiences to get the best answers. We filter through the noise to deliver actionable reports with insightful analysis.
Program Evaluation
Evaluation is a journey through the entire life of your program, and we will identify metrics for determining your program's success, implement the evaluation plan to present a clear understanding of the achieved outcomes, and iterate with you on that plan throughout the span of your program’s impact.
Measurement & Tool Development
We create and customize tools to fit the needs of each project, client, and community. By asking the right questions, we extract the data to address your organization's pressing needs.
Interviews & Focus Groups
Evaluation is more than quantitative data, it’s also the stories of the community. To tell the whole story, we build trusting relationships with community leaders and partners, listen to their experiences, and develop inclusive insights and reports that reflect their lived experiences.
Experimental Designs
We don’t just work in a lab; our team of experts live and breathe real-world experimental design and advanced quantitative methods. Whether experimental or quasi-experimental, our designs will answer your most important question: does your program really work?
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Advancing the Evidence
OMNI’s four-part Advancing the Evidence Framework to guide organizations beyond anecdotes and toward evidence of impact. The following steps will help move your organization from feeling like you are creating positive change to knowing that you are.
Step 1: Foundation - What are you doing and why?
Clearly define and articulate the model for change to provide shared understanding of the value of the model and develop a framework for all subsequent evaluation to build upon.
Step 2: Fidelity - Are your efforts happening as intended?
Test assumptions and get feedback that allows you to confirm or modify the efforts meant to bring about change. Testing fidelity allows you to move forward with a clear understanding of what is actually happening, rather than merely what you hope is happening.
Step 3: Results - What are the benefits and what can you improve to maximize the benefits?
Learn whether the changes you are expecting to see are occurring. Understand the outcomes (positive or negative) that people and communities are experiencing after participation.
Step 4: Impact - Do participants experience benefits relative to non-participants?
Understand whether the benefits likely would have happened even if the program didn’t exist, and whether those benefits are worth the investment of resources. Studying the impact helps you answer the ultimate ‘so what?’ questions by attributing changes directly to the intervention — does it really work?
Click below to learn more about our Advancing the Evidence Framework, understand how our services can provide evidence of impact, and read project case studies.