Capacity Building Training

EVALCORP offers a variety of different on-site and remote training sessions. Our capacity building trainings can cover topics such as:

Community Decision-Making

Everything your organization does connects to the community and demographics that it serves. Whether you serve those experiencing mental health or substance use challenges or are striving to address key public health issues, it is vital that community members are involved in designing and implementing your programs.

There are several ways to engage in community decision-making. The approach that you use should align with your goals, area of service, and relationship with the community.

EVALCORP provides your staff with tips and strategies they can use to mobilize community members for your cause and get them involved in decision-making processes. When your program uses these techniques to make community members feel heard, you can increase program adoption and reach a broader audience.

Community-Based Action Research (CBAR)

Community-based action research (CBAR) is a specific type of community decision-making focusing on quantifiable data and grassroots-level engagement. It’s a collaborative strategy that involves including all stakeholders in the research process. Community members, staff, and your leadership team will work together to define research questions, develop data collection plans, gather and analyze information, and assess the outcomes of the project.

CBAR is a valuable tool for understanding the needs of community members and forging meaningful connections with them. EVALCORP’s training sessions teach participants how to organize CBAR projects and get community members more involved in research efforts.

Attendees will learn when, how, and where to incorporate CBAR into an overall outreach strategy.

Developing SMART Outcomes

The specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and time-phased (SMART) framework is designed to help you set and achieve concrete objectives. Our capacity building training familiarizes attendees with the SMART goal-setting model. During the training, we explain the importance of realistic objective-setting to maximize program efficacy.

Developing and achieving SMART outcomes also makes it easier to earn the support of funders. When your organization consistently sets and meets its goals, funders will view your program favorably and are more likely to grant your funding requests.

High-Quality Data Collection and Management

Collecting and managing massive amounts of data is part art, part science. At EVALCORP, we are experts at measuring what matters and helping your team learn to do the same. We share easy-to-implement but highly effective techniques for data collection, data management, and reporting.

By the conclusion of a data collection and management capacity building training session, attendees will be equipped to employ advanced data strategies within your program. You can pair this training service with our strategic planning solutions to simultaneously upskill your team and revolutionize your data management practices.

Community-Centered Data Collection Tools

Gathering and measuring back-end data, such as how many volunteer hours you accumulated and how funding was allocated, is a relatively straightforward process. However, gathering grassroots data from community members and program beneficiaries can be an extremely challenging endeavor.

To assist with this, EVALCORP has incorporated community-centered data collection into our capacity building training. We discuss how your team can encourage community members to voluntarily provide data about your program and its impacts on their quality of life. We also outline strategies and key data collection tools that you can implement to facilitate better participation among diverse groups of program participants.

Easy and Effective Data Analysis Strategies

At our data analysis training sessions, EVALCORP staff demonstrate simple yet effective analytical strategies for your team to implement to better understand the data you collect. From visualization to analysis, these comprehensive training courses help you guide decision-making with relevant data.

In addition to offering data analysis training, EVALCORP provides comprehensive analytics services. Our team of experts will handle data collection, organization, sorting, and analysis so that you can derive actionable insights.

Storytelling with Data

Gathering and analyzing program data is an important component of maintaining funding and reporting outcomes to funders. However, to maximize engagement and mobilize funders and stakeholders to action, you must do more than simply present them with raw data. Instead, you must transform your data into a compelling, human-centric story.

EVALCORP’s capacity building trainings and educational sessions equip your team with the storytelling skills necessary to create dynamic and memorable reports and presentations with data.

Storytelling with data maximizes funder and stakeholder engagement and increases your ability to acquire vital resources for your organization.

Visually Appealing Findings: Creative Methods of Sharing Findings with Funders

Data storytelling is a highly effective means of sharing findings with your stakeholders and funders. However, every stakeholder group, funder, and grant board is unique. With that in mind, it is important to use various strategies to demonstrate your program’s impacts.

In addition to offering data storytelling training, EVALCORP uses numerous other creative methods for sharing findings with funders. We will relay these techniques to training program participants and help them connect more effectively with their stakeholders and funders. The methods we discuss include charts, graphs, and infographics.