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Evaluation & Research

What We Do

As experienced social service practitioners, planners, and evaluators, we understand that complex social issues require collaborative and comprehensive solutions to create real and lasting change. When data are collected, analyzed, and used wisely, they can inform strategies and drive impact.

HTA designs and conducts evaluations and research projects that improve systems, programs, and practices. Our clients include scores of Bay Area community-based organizations, city and county agencies, schools, school districts, higher education, private foundations, and cross-agency collaboratives.

We empower our clients to design and implement plans that improve services and supports for communities in a collaborative, systematic and intentional way.

HTA operates a federally-qualified Institutional Review Board, and upon request  we review projects for outside agencies.

As evaluators, we help our clients measure program and organizational impact. In a world of alternative facts, HTA provides reliable data collection, management, analysis, and reporting to measure and inform program development. We help you compare your goals and outcomes with baseline or a comparison group. Our reports are accessible and customized to the target audiences.  

Our evaluations establish credible findings that support, grant applications, accountability for results, continuous improvement, and program development.

Grant Writing

What We Do

HTA has over 25 years of success in writing government, foundation, and corporate grant proposals and contracts – yielding our clients over $1 Billion in funding since 1997. For each project, we put together a team based on content knowledge, experience with the funder, availability, and cost efficiency. See a selection of our recent successful grants below.

HTA Grant Writing Service Packages

HTA grant development services are highly customized to the needs of each client – from full service grant writing to limited proposal planning, editing, and compliance. We provide a scope of work where our services offer the most value.

• Grant Service Options Overview
• Package A: Full Service (details)
• Package B: Strategy (details)
• Package C: Editing (details)

Community & Strategic Planning

All of our planning services are designed to build the capacity of our individual clients and multi-agency collaborations. We focus on sustainable solutions to pressing problems, and we support our clients to make strategic and tactical decisions that amplify their impact and help them achieve their vision.

Our skilled planners work with our clients to:

• Engage stakeholders in deep collaboration among funders, policymakers, community members, government agencies, and community-based organizations
• Develop collaborative, data-driven strategic plans that incorporate data and relevant input to inform effective decision making
• Empower communities to plan and execute collective impact, results based accountability and place-based initiatives
• Design effective programs
• Develop action plans that drive project execution
• Conduct benchmarking assessments to help programs get/stay on track
• Measure results to inform and shape program execution
• Provide technical assistance and training to build capacity, launch, and sustain complex implementation processes
• Write white papers, needs assessments, and custom reports that address specialized topics

Capacity Building

Every organization faces unexpected challenges from time to time. Effective organizations and their leaders build the internal capacity and resilience to adapt to new circumstances and to get ahead of the inevitable changes that might otherwise disrupt agency impact and stability.

Our capacity building services are designed to strengthen organizations’ ability to carry out their missions. We help to identify and harness the existing strengths and capacities of agencies and to build those strengths into a more effective, productive, and well-resourced organization. Whether working internally to align employees and departments around a shared vision or creating meaningful collaborations with other organizations, we help our clients make important changes so that they maximize their impact. We provide flexible capacity-building services, ranging from full-service partnerships and in-depth assessments, to one-time trainings or facilitation.

We work with our clients to:

• Conduct strengths-based assessments of day-to-day operations, short and long term needs, history, culture, and processes to identify actionable changes
• Unite a team around shared goals, vision, and values
• Develop a sustainable financial plan
• Restructure organizations to align with new opportunities and adjust to current realities
• Develop internal and external communications plans
• Identify risks and help to develop a realistic mitigation plan
• Plan and facilitate large-scale stakeholder engagements
• Break through internal challenges and resolve conflicts
• Form and facilitate strategic alliances and collaboratives
• Seek and assess funding prospects and opportunities
• Develop and refine single agency and collaborative governance models that are effective and appropriate to the context
• Provide customized professional development for staff through trainings and retreats