Service Model
Get clear on what you do, who you serve, and the change you expect to see. We review your records and help you name the outcomes that matter most.
Your data… Your decisions…
We help organizations learn from their own data.
DataUse Consulting Group works with education and human service organizations. We help your staff collect the right information, make sense of it, and use it to make decisions. When our work ends, those skills stay with your team.
- Phase 1Service Model
- Phase 2Data Management
- Phase 3Data Use
What we do
Three phases of work
Most clients come to us at one of three points. Some need to get clear on their work. Some need a better way to track it. Others already have data and want to put it to use. We start wherever you are.
Data Management
Build a simple system to collect and keep the information your work needs. We design the tools and steps to fit how your staff already work.
Data Use
Learn to read your data and act on it. Through training and coaching, your team learns to use what it collects for planning, fundraising, and reports.
How we work
Gestalt Empowerment Evaluation
Our approach is Gestalt Empowerment Evaluation. Dr. David Fetterman and Dr. Paul St. Roseman developed it together. It rests on a simple idea: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A single number rarely tells the full story. Meaning comes from how the pieces fit together.
In this approach, your staff and community members lead the evaluation. We coach and support them along the way.
The steps do not have to happen in a fixed order. A team may return to its values while it plans. That is normal, and it is often where the real learning happens.
Additionally, we are building online tools that carry this approach from start to finish. A team plans, tracks, and reflects in one shared space. AI helps the team spot patterns and gaps in its own data. However, people make the decisions. AI never sets a community's values or judges the worth of its work.
- MissionAgree on your values before you set any measures.
- Taking StockRate your key activities, then talk through why.
- Planning for the FutureSet goals and decide what evidence will count.
- MonitoringTrack progress and see where support is needed.
Increasingly there is a demand for something to be left behind after an evaluation is completed.
We take that seriously. A report on a shelf helps no one. We judge our work by what your team can do after we leave.
Who we work with
Since 1995
- Schools and districts
- Community nonprofits
- Foundations and funders
- Human service agencies
Our work has included programs in college access, teacher recruitment, gang prevention, and domestic violence services.
Talk with us about your work.
Tell us where you are and what you hope to learn. We will tell you honestly whether we can help.