Learning Forward Evaluation

Designs that incorporate ongoing learning as key to the process and build mutual trust.

Sensemaking

Facilitated discussions about data and reports, which also honor lived experiences to create a common understanding and lead to the next steps.

Action Plans

Trainings and relevant documentation to review “how to’s” and engage staff through interactive processes that support the implementation of new approaches.

Evaluation · Voice · Capacity Building

Natalie De Sole works with mission-inspired groups who want to learn from data and the experiences of their youth and community to reach organizational goals.

Know your strengths and successes.
Make decisions rooted in data and lived experiences, informed by theory

Approach

To develop designs, we leverage cutting-edge research and evaluation methods, collaborative and participatory approaches, organizational learning, and social justice principles. We specialize in triangulating data (stories and numbers) with lived experiences to contextualize evidence of impact.

Expert Insights

Rooted-Growth offers guidance for clients to best identify informational needs, co-develop designs, and implement evaluations or build capacity. We are expertly equipped to facilitate discussions and implementation of findings.

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We know that mission-inspired organizations accomplish incredible things with limited resources to change the world for the better. Connect with Natalie to learn more about how Rooted-Growth can help your organization reach new heights.

The Rooted-Growth Process

Rooted-Growth meets with clients to identify their informational needs, develop designs, implement evaluations or build capacity, and facilitate discussions and implementation of findings. We develop designs using research and evaluation methods, community-based participatory processes, organizational learning, and social justice principles.

Rooted-Growth designs mixed methods evaluations specializing in collaborative and participatory approaches and evaluative skills such as survey development, focus groups (online and in person), pre and post tests, key stakeholder interviews, rubrics, site visits, and case studies. Rooted-Growth is always happy to partner with other evaluators, researchers, and content experts for varied skill sets when needed.

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Natalie's expertise helped us to analyze the effects of our multi-year youth development. Her skill around conducting focus groups, capturing that data and generating easy to read reports of our findings was invaluable to us, especially for writing grant reports and presenting findings to key stakeholders. 

Francine Hudson

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Teen HYPE Youth Development Program