


Civic Engagement and Community Service Evaluations
Brad Rose Consulting, Inc., has evaluated a substantial number
of civic engagement, community service, volunteer, and service
learning initiatives. Among these:
- Americans for the Arts-- Arts and Civic Engagement Impact
Initiative
Arts and Civic Engagement
- Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation's,
Jewish Teen Leaders Fellowship (JTLF) a national, youth
leadership development and community service initiative
- City Year (National Office)--- program evaluation
consultation on City Year's Evidence of Impact Studies and
Clinton Democracy Fellowship program
- Hands On Network, Citizen Action AmeriCorps Program
- Massachusetts Service Alliance, Community-Based Service
Learning initiative
- Massachusetts Service Alliance, AmeriCorps program
- Massachusetts Campus Compact, After-school grant
program
- Massachusetts Campus Compact, Learn and Serve Higher
Education grant program
- Massachusetts Campus Compact, VISTA program
- National Campus Compact, Integrating Service and
Academic Study initiative
- Indiana Campus Compact, Community Service Mini-Grant
program
- Indiana Campus Compact, “Faculty Fellows” program
- Indiana Campus Compact, “Scholarship of Engagement”
program
- New England Resource Center for Higher Education,
“Project Engage”
►For the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, conducted an
evaluation of the Jewish Teen Leaders Fellowship (JTLF) a national, youth
leadership development initiative that recruited and trained teen leaders from 8
cities to design and carry out service projects in teen’s home communities.
►An evaluation of the national Hands On Network's Citizen Action AmeriCorps
Program to: determine the program’s effectiveness, identify critical lessons
learned from the program's implementation, and develop data-based
recommendations for program enhancement/refinement.
►An outcome evaluation of the effectiveness of the operation of the
Massachusetts Service Alliance’s 26 AmeriCorps programs, which operate
throughout Massachusetts;
►An impact evaluation of Massachusetts Campus Compact’s VISTA program;
►A summative evaluation of Massachusetts Campus Compact’s Learn and
Serve grant program--a higher education program that supports service-based
campus and community partnerships and community research projects;
►An evaluation of a 50-site, multi-year youth mentoring initiative funded by the
Massachusetts state legislature and the Corporation for National and
Community Service;
►An effectiveness assessment of Indiana Campus Compact’s Lilly Endowment-
sponsored service learning and faculty development programs, that serve 30
Indiana College and University campuses;
►A process evaluation of MACC’s Community Service Directors ‘Think Tank’, a
two-year professional development initiative offered to 30 Community Service
Directors from Massachusetts’ colleges and universities;
►For the Nellie Mae Foundation and MACC, a multi-site, cluster evaluation of
college and university student-provided after-school tutoring programs that
serve educationally at-risk elementary students in Massachusetts; and
► For the New England Resource Center for Higher Education, an evaluation of
a national-scope faculty development project, “Civic Engagement in Higher
Education: Faculty Professional Service and the Scholarship of Engagement.”
Prior to founding Brad Rose Consulting, Dr. Rose served as Assistant Director
of the national office of Campus Compact, a national association of college and
university presidents who support community service and civic engagement
initiatives.
