Human Services

We provide research, evaluation, and implementation support to clients and partners with the goal of optimizing interventions for participants and communities, increasing program enrollment, and improving outcomes and impact. Our team includes experts in the funding streams and programs of US Departments of Agriculture, Education, Health and Human Services, and Labor and the philanthropic efforts that leverage them.

We partner with foundations and public agencies to achieve more inclusive programming, more equitable outcomes, and increased participant empowerment—independent of participant age, gender, sexual preference, disability status, race, color, language, culture, or place of origin.

We evaluate and support government- and philanthropy-funded youth programs—with a strong emphasis on engaging foster youth, justice-involved youth, and opportunity youth—to improve inclusion in school, work, enterprise, and other activities that offer the opportunity for building skills, relationships, economic security, and purpose.

We provide strategic learning, evaluation, and advisory support to philanthropic foundations, partners, and stakeholders seeking to advance equity in the provision of community health services, and we collaborate with these partners to strengthen advocacy and improve policy at the local, regional, or state levels.

We are among an emerging cadre of research organizations partnering with states, local governments, foundations, and community organizations to explore and evaluate income guarantees as a vehicle for economic security and well-being.