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Our projects range from landscape analysis, program assessments and evaluations, to qualitative interviews and focus groups.

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Houston Endowment/Grassroots Solutions

Houston, Texas

We are the on-site Evaluation Collaborator in Grassroots Solutions consultancy with the Houston Endowment on the Greater Houston Citizenship Project. We assist with the evaluation of this emergent initiative focused on increasing the number of people naturalizing each year. In partnership with this Texas-based philanthropic client, community partners, and the initiative’s design lead, Grassroots Solutions is responsible for facilitating the development and implementation of an evaluation plan to guide data collection, analysis, and ongoing learning. We provided input about the evaluation design, cultivated relationships with community partners in Houston, and helped ensure that community input is reflected in the evaluation plan. Educo Research, as the Evaluation Collaborator, continues to assist with gathering data and stories that help us track and interpret signals of success of a community-centered design process and now early-stage implementation of the initiative.

Data collection includes: surveys, stakeholder interviews (sometimes conducted in Spanish), small group discussions, and document reviews. Observations of community meetings and the social and political climate of Houston also inform the analysis and reporting process.

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ALMAAHH, Advocates of a Latino Museum of Cultural and Visual Arts & Archive Complex

Houston, Texas

We lead both quantitative and qualitative evaluations, including the development and analysis of tools such as satisfaction surveys, demographic surveys, polls, focus groups, and interviews to measure the strategic plan’s implementation progress. Quantitative data will be reported using basic descriptive statistics. Also, we provide technical assistance to ALMAAHH staff and volunteers in areas such as curriculum development, evaluation-informed program designs, facilitation strategies, and capacity building. 

The consultancy is structured as a collaborative process with flexible deliberables and responsive feedback cycles.

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Communities of Care Initiative

Houston, Texas

The Communities of Care (CoC) Collaborative was a multi-sector and multi-year initiative that began in June of 2019, funded by the Hogg Foundation. The collaborative consists of 10 grantees of diverse stakeholders, from community-based organizations, city and county agencies, federally qualified health centers, community-led organizations, and ethnically and racially diverse residents across the Greater Houston area. The mixed-methods research study will evaluate whether the entire collaborative’s goals and objectives have been achieved and will measure progress throughout the six-five years of the initiative. 

Educo Research has been tasked to lead the qualitative evaluation (key stakeholder interviews, focus groups, design, implementation, analysis, and reporting, etc.) of the initiative as part of a 5-person evaluation team. Educo Research has co-developed IRB protocols, evaluation baseline surveys, facilitated training, and provided technical assistance to collaborative partners.

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Harris County Housing Study

Houston, Texas

The Harris County Housing Study assessed housing affordability,  access, infrastructure, and desires for the 4MM+ residents in the 34-city county. From March 2020 to August 2021, we worked in partnership with our client, Ford Momentum!, and the Kinder Institute for Urban Research to ethically design and moderate strategic conversations with residents regarding housing conditions, desires, and access.

Through a mass communications campaign and field engagement strategies, in the midst of a worldwide pandemic, we conducted direct and indirect contact with the County and City to capture over 17,000 survey responses from residents. Educo Research analyzed and reported on qualitative survey responses, data from the gamified survey, and branded cloud-based video studio interviews to inform the overall housing plan deliverable requested by Harris County. 

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Intercultural Development Research Association

San Antonio, Texas

We conducted and reported on focus group data for the Ready Texas: A Study of the Implementation of House Bill 5 in Texas (84th Legislative Session), funded by the Greater Texas Foundation.  The research provided educational stakeholders with information about the implications of recent curriculum changes in the state on the college and career readiness of graduates.  Focus groups consisted of students, parents, and high school counselors from across Houston, TX, and Schulenburg, TX.

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Latinos for Education

Boston, MA

Conducted landscape analysis to learn more about the Latino educational leadership pipeline in Houston, which enabled the expansion of the leadership program in Houston for Latino educational leaders.  Analysis consisted of publicly accessible quantitative data, conducting an online survey, and conducting and analyzing three qualitative focus groups (with a total of 26 participants) and one-on-one interviews with teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders.

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