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UpFront helps organizations improve program effectiveness. We design your evaluation to give you, your staff, and key stakeholders the information needed to improve your program. Our services include:
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Evaluation consulting and design
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Designing and administering data collection tools
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Analyzing and reporting evaluation results
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Helping organizations use results in program planning
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Guiding Principles
The evaluators subscribe to the Guiding Principles for Evaluators, as defined by the American Evaluation Association:
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Systematic Inquiry—evaluators conduct systematic, data-based inquiries about what is being evaluated.
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Competence—evaluators provide competent performance to stakeholders.
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Integrity/Honesty—evaluators ensure the honesty and integrity of the entire evaluation process.
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Respect for people—evaluators respect the security, dignity, and self-worth of the respondents, program participants, clients, and other stakeholders with whom they interact.
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Responsibilities for general and public welfare—evaluators articulate and take into account the diversity of interests and values that may be related to the general and public welfare.
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“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.”
—Winston Churchill
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