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:

  • 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.  


Community Service Projects