Empowering Impactful Decisions
Impact Research Services
At Mockingbird Analytics, we understand the profound importance of data-driven decision-making. We approach impact research with a dedicated commitment to uncovering actionable insights. By working with us, you gain a partner with the expertise and resources to elevate your organization's capacity to serve your community more effectively.
Our approach is guided by the principle that every data point tells a story. We're committed to unveiling those stories through an equity-based and healing-centered lens to help you understand community needs, program effectiveness, and the potential for change.
OUR SERVICES INCLUDE:
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A Literature Review and Needs Assessment form the foundation for impactful research. By understanding the past and present dynamics of your community, we empower you to craft programs that address real, pressing concerns. Our approach includes:
Extensive Literature Review: We delve into existing research, pinpointing trends, best practices, and gaps to inform your program's design.
Community Needs Assessment: We collaborate with you to assess the specific needs and circumstances of your community. This step is integral in shaping your program's direction.
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At Mockingbird Analytics, we empower you with the insights needed to make informed decisions. Our meticulous data collection methods, expertly crafted surveys, and tailored metrics provide a complete solution for understanding and measuring the impact of your programs. Our approach includes:
Precise Data Collection: We meticulously collect and analyze data to provide you with accurate insights into the effectiveness of your initiatives.
Custom Survey Creation: Our expert team designs tailored surveys to capture the specific data you need, enabling you to gain deep insights from your target audience.
Metric Creation: We craft meaningful metrics and performance indicators, aligning them with your goals and objectives.
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At Mockingbird Analytics, we help you understand and communicate the impact of your programs effectively. Our reporting goes beyond numbers and compliance; it's about celebrating achievements, uncovering insights, and crafting meaningful narratives that resonate with your stakeholders, funders, and community.
Whether you need to put together a report for a funder, impact infographics, or create an annual report that showcases your accomplishments, we're here to support you.
We invite you contact us to learn more about our impact assessment and reporting services and explore here some of the beautiful reports we've created for clients in the past. Discover how we've helped organizations like yours articulate their success and demonstrate the positive change they've initiated.
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Original research allows you to address emerging community needs proactively, stay ahead of trends, and ensure your programs are relevant. Policy and Equity Analysis is vital in creating lasting, positive impacts by addressing disparities and ensuring an anti-racist and anti-oppressive lens in all initiatives. Our approach includes:
Original Research: We conduct in-depth investigations and craft customized research projects to uncover the challenges and opportunities within your community. This research serves as the bedrock for pioneering new and impactful programs.
Policy & Equity Analysis: Our team critically examines policies, identifies avenues for change, and evaluates their impact. By promoting justice and inclusion, we guide you in creating programs that benefit all members of your community.
Our Research Agenda and Approach
The Mockingbird Analytics research agenda seeks to dismantle systems of oppression and generate healing spaces for self-determination. This approach requires a strong, fundamental knowledge of the roots of inequities as well as the strategies that communities use to redistribute resources toward sustainable justice.
Dr. Marisa Turesky leads our research team, bringing over a decade of experience to advance equity and healing through participatory research and evaluation. As activist-scholars, our team uses a social movement lens to build leadership and learning for partners and clients to achieve their own revolutionary policies and practices. Below, read about our current and past projects.
We tailor different equity-based research methodologies to our client’s unique programs and research goals. One such method that we prioritize is Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR), which uses a feminist lens to explore intersectional systematic power inequities, particularly in the lives of women and gender minorities. Learn more here about FPAR and how it can benefit your nonprofit.
Some of the projects we have worked on:
Dr. Turesky’s research, which examines how identity and emotions shape people's access to places and services, has been published in top peer-reviewed journals. Additional projects include racial impact statements, reparations research, prison abolition program evaluations, economic justice impact research, restorative justice program evaluation, equity-based organizational evaluation plans, social-emotional learning evaluations, among others.
Some of our clients and partners include both community groups and think tanks, such as Equity Research Institute, the United Ways of California, the SELA Collaborative, The Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department, Aging Places, Aging People (APAP), and the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive.
Building Trauma-Informed Nonprofits
Learn more about our partnership with Project Hope California to create healing-centered workplace policies for nonprofits.
LA County Decarceration Policies
We led the evaluation of decarceral policies based on Justice’s LA’s organizing strategy and vision during COVID-19.
National Reparations Funding Report
Learn more about our work with the City of LA’s Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department and the Reparations Advisory Commission.
Featured Resources on Impact Research
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