CLIENT CASE STUDY

Southeast Center for Cooperative Development

Project: Program Evaulation

Sector: Business Education and Training

Focus: Cooperative development, shared ownership of new enterprises across TN

Project Length: 2 Years

Measuring the impact of creative, community-driven solutions to wealth inequality and the racial wealth gap. 

Elevate has had the opportunity to partner with SEC4CD on three occasions in the past 2 years, supporting them in data collection design, analysis and reporting, and overall evaluation strategy design. While their team has observed the success and positive impact of their programs, they wanted to be able to track, measure, and communicate those findings in a more strategic and systematic way. 

Services

Evaluation Design

Data Collection Implementation Training

Logic Model Development 

Data Collection Design

Our approach

Using a collaborative approach, Elevate worked with the SEC4CD project staff to determine what outcomes they desired from their programming, what questions they had about the impact of their programming, and what metrics might be important to future funders, donors, or participants. 

Using a mixed-methods approach, combining observational tools, surveys, and focused conversations, Elevate and SEC4CD designed data collection plans for the Introduction to Cooperatives course, the Cooperative Academy, and the Cooperative Incubation Circles. These methods serve to capture the reach of their programming, levels of participant engagement, participant satisfaction, and changes in knowledge and beliefs. Altogether, this strategy paints a picture of the participant's experience with SEC4CD and can inform programmatic shifts, marketing strategies, and broader learning about cooperative development programs.

“Elevate has been an essential part of growing and improving our programming. By taking the time to fully understand our processes and goals their experts helped us develop a robust data tracking plan and the tools to accomplish that plan. Elevate’s assistance in analyzing our existing data has given us insights into how to make small but strategic shifts to maximize our impact.”
— Josh Corlew, Program Development Co-lead

Project Team

Alyssa Reynolds, M.Ed.

Consultant, Project Lead

Hannah Wohltjen, M.A., M.P.H.

Chief Research & Evaluation Officer,  Project Principal

Morgan Service, M.A., M.P.H.

Associate Consultant, Project Support

I am always excited about an opportunity to partner with SEC4CD. Their team is highly dedicated and cares so deeply about the mission of the organization. Our project work with SEC4CD is rooted in reciprocity; I have learned so much about what co-ops are, how they work, and the benefits they afford the community, and their team has always been excited to learn from us, and to grow their evaluation and data capacity. I always enjoy projects where we are learning from each other along the way.
— Alyssa Reynolds, Consultant, Elevate Consulting

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