Social science for the public good.
Deep experience working with a wide variety of data and analysis methods.
From descriptive analyses documenting student and community characteristics to sophisticated quasi-experimental, experimental, or simulation methods, we can do it all. We can build automatic reporting pipelines, draft practitioner-focused reports, write technical working documents, and more.
Understand where the public money goes and what it buys.
We have analyzed over 100 city, county, and state budgets and regularly conduct trainings for community groups and local officials to help them understand and advocate about their local budgets. We also conduct cross-locale budget analyses to compare revenue and spending in an "apples to apples" way.
Get credible answers to whether your program is actually moving the needle.
We can help you design your logic model or theory of action, build a system to collect data on program indicators and outcomes, plan a design that is both feasible and rigorous, and ultimately evaluate whether your program is working for whom and under what conditions.
There's so much research available but how do you quickly and reliably evaluate and synthesize the existing evidence?
We've conducted literature reviews for a variety of federal agencies and for nonprofits and love digging deep into what we actually know and don't know on a given topic. This is also an area where we've had a lot of success using AI to augment the work!
An extra set of experienced hands to fully prepare or augment your proposal writing teams.
We have written proposals to all levels of government, philanthropies, nonprofits and more both for our own work and as consultants for other orgs. We're happy to help with all stages of the process from proposal management and drafting through to grant reporting!
The whole reason Civilytics was founded.
We build public tools, public open datasets, and write to share findings from social science with general audiences. Some of the work we're most proud of came from seeing a public data need, such as to understand the scale of American Rescue Plan funding for different communities, and figuring out how to access, analyze, and share the data with others.
We understand that having the answer when you need it can be just as important as getting the right answer and that you hire a consultant so work is done on schedule without additional hassles for your team. We are committed to getting you what you need to take action for your school, district, clients, or other stakeholders.
We will work with you to identify the most rigorous methods feasible for your project and evaluate whether those are a good fit for your needs. No matter the methods, we strive to make findings accessible and are committed to democratizing social science, data, and research so educators, advocates, community members and practitioners can truly understand what the data do and don't support.
We want working with us to be engaging and informative and love to build capacity so you can take over the work in the future. Whenever it's consistent with our clients' goals, we use open tools and and deliver documented code, data sources, and methodology so any number can be traced, verified, and updated and so you can reproduce the analysis later for the next school year or cohort of participants.
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ReadTo pique your interest: Out of 1000s of school districts in the U.S., how many do you think accounted for over half of all school-based arrests of American Indian and Alaska Native students in 2021-22? Keep reading for the answer.
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