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.  
Community Service Projects