| 1. | What types of consulting does Ascend Evaluation provide?
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| 2. | Why should I choose Ascend Evaluation over other consulting agencies?
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| 3. | What is involved in regard to Ascend Evaluation's grant writing consultation?
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| 4. | How can Ascend Evaluation assist small agencies, school, and community-based inititiaves?
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| 5. | How can businesses utilize Ascend Evaluation's consulting services?
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| 1. | What types of consulting does Ascend Evaluation provide? |
| | Ascend Evaluation has a diverse staff that can provide a variety of consulting services for large or small agencies, corporations, social service organizations, medical and health promotion consortiums, and districts and schools. Please review our site for our specific consultation services. Ascend Evaluation staff will provide a free initial consultation with your organization. During this consultation, Ascend Evaluation staff will work with you to plan, develop, and implement a project based on your needs. |
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| 2. | Why should I choose Ascend Evaluation over other consulting agencies? |
| | Ascend Evaluation has advantages over other agencies in that: - We are "client centered" and are advocates for agencies
- We value person-to-person contact and will meet with you according to your schedule
- We have low overhead and thus can provide excellent consulting services that are less expensive than larger agencies
- We have over ten years of grant writing and research experience and staff are nationally recognized
- We can provide bilingual services
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| 3. | What is involved in regard to Ascend Evaluation's grant writing consultation? |
| | Ascend Evaluation recognizes that, while there are many grants available, many agencies and schools simply do not have the time to write them. Ascend Evaluation determines consulting costs on the size of the grant and the time needed to write it. In some situations, grant writing may be provided for free. Moreover, Ascend Evaluation has a low indirect rate that allows funding to be directed to what is most important: the grant project and its potential to improve lives. |
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| 4. | How can Ascend Evaluation assist small agencies, school, and community-based inititiaves? |
| | Ascend Evaluation is aware that smaller agencies and schools have limited resources, especially in regard to evaluation and grant writing. Social service agencies may be required to conduct client-based evaluations in regard to services and treatment outcomes, but they may need evaluation and statistical analyses assistance. The limited resources often seen in small agencies and schools also reduce their capacity to apply for grant funding despite the many grant funding resources focusing on small projects. Ascend Evaluation is dedicated to building the evaluation and grant funding capacity of small agencies and schools to ensure their future success. As such, Ascend Evaluation does provide a free initial consultation for all clients and consultation fees are based on a sliding-scale in consideration of agency/school need versus agency/school resources. |
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| 5. | How can businesses utilize Ascend Evaluation's consulting services? |
| | Ascend Evaluation has staff skilled in social psychology, sociology, and industrial-organizational psychology that can assist business in a variety of ways. Ascend Evaluation can assist businesses in the following ways: - Conduct organizational health analyses that can determine employee satisfaction, perceptions of the workplace environment, and the overall effectiveness of business procedures;
- Evaluate the effectiveness of business policies and procedures using valid and reliable assessments;
- Perform business growth projection research;
- Provide statistics-based market forecasting and provide recommendations for future marketing plans;
- Offer workshops and trainings on current theory and practices in regard to the business environment.
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