Maybe you have to conduct an evaluation as part of a grant that you received. Or, perhaps your Board has been asking about results, or your staff is starting to wonder how effective a program is. No matter the reason, assessing your programs and activities can help you get more bang for your buck.

If you want to move people, you need stories. And if you want to move skeptics, you need data. CRC specializes in storytelling with data. It’s something we pride ourselves on. And by storytelling, we DON’T mean fudging the numbers or spinning the facts. We help you tell your organization’s stories with real data, so that you can share and act upon the findings of our research and evaluation. This means we present findings in clear, digestible, and visually interesting ways and make sure you and your team know how to access the data whenever you need it.

Fundraising is one of the toughest responsibilities of any organization. It’s a lot of work, and it’s disheartening if you’re not seeing results. Well, we can help with that. We’ll identify the right data, so you can target your communications, figure out what works and what doesn’t, and personalize your fundraising efforts to raise more money with less effort. Then, whether you have a whole department or a single person doing the job, we can help you set and track your fundraising goals, saving you time and raising you money.

Our team of researchers and evaluators put their love for numbers and data to work to help our clients improve their projects and programs. We have the expertise to tackle the evaluation and research projects that strike fear into the hearts of your most industrious staff members. No matter how large or small your project is, we will help your program be as effective as possible. From program evaluation design, to support for grants and proposals, surveys, focus groups, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and more, we make sure you have the data you need and know how to use it. It may seem like there’s an ocean between where you are and where you want to be, but we make the trip easy and we make the trip fun.

Numbers matter, but what good are they if they can’t be easily interpreted and shared? That’s why data visualization is so important. Did you know that the brain processes visual information 60,000 times faster, and approximately 65% of the population are visual learners? (Of course we have the numbers to back us up!) Yet, we live in a data-centric world. Staff, board member, funders and more use data to make informed decisions every day. So what do we do? We make them pretty; we make them digestible; we make them make sense. We’re two parts data nerd and one part designer, using size, color and perception to create charts, dashboards, infographics and maps that are as visually appealing as they are accurate. And we make sure our clients know how to interpret their data and use it to further the goals of their organizations.

We've been there – frustrated by data management software options because we didn't love what we saw, so we built our own custom software, called Incite. Incite is a cloud-based, software-as-a-service platform designed to enter and store data, and create reports for nonprofits, foundations, social service agencies, and K-12 education. Incite provides a portal accessible via desktop or mobile devices. We understand the work you do because we’ve been helping you wrangle data for over 15 years. We built Incite after extensive user testing to make sure it was easy for our clients, and because we are data geeks you know we made sure that the data stored there is as accurate as it can be, and that especially includes the reports that come out of Incite.