Evaluation planning
Define useful questions, select meaningful measures, and build an achievable evaluation plan for a proposal or active program.
Planning servicesEvaluation · Research · Analysis
Evidence that
moves your
work forward.
Practical evaluation for complex programs. We help universities, public agencies, and nonprofits understand their work, strengthen implementation, and communicate results.
What we do
The full picture.
The practical next step.
Evaluation should be rigorous enough to trust and practical enough to use. We connect research methods with the realities of delivering a program.
Research & data collection
Hear from the people your work touches through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and coordinated fieldwork.
Research servicesAnalysis & reporting
Turn complex qualitative and quantitative data into clear findings, useful visualizations, and actionable recommendations.
Analytical servicesSelected experience
Complex programs.
Substantive experience.
Agriculture · University partnership
Organic Wheat research project
External evaluation for a Utah State University-led, USDA-funded research partnership.
Child care · Nevada
CRRSA / ARPA evaluation
Evaluation planning, fieldwork, analysis, and reporting across more than 35 child-care initiatives.
Natural resources · National network
Fire Science Exchange Network
Multi-audience survey research and web analytics for a national evaluation of science exchange.
Our evaluation leadership brings experience across university research, public programs, and independent consulting.
Expertise with continuity
Senior evaluation leadership.
Support shaped to your project.
Silver State Evaluations combines evaluation leadership and research support with a professional network of external evaluators, researchers, and academic professionals. As a project’s scope grows, we can draw on those connections to bring in additional expertise and capacity, with roles shaped around the work.
- Experience evaluating grant-funded, multi-partner initiatives
- Qualitative and quantitative methods in one coherent approach
- Direct involvement from planning through reporting
Let's talk about your project
A thoughtful evaluation starts with a conversation.
Planning a proposal or looking for support on an existing project?