Data-Driven Advocacy
Bridging Science and Passion for Lasting Social Impact
Our Mission.
We are a Black women owned and led firm offering high-quality, rigorous people-centered research, evaluation, and capacity building services to the non-profit sector and human services providers. We bring a culturally responsive, equitable focus to our work. We conduct research and evaluation, facilitate strategic planning, support data capacity building and provide professional development and training for non-profit professionals.
We care.
We do this work because we care. We feel the pain and suffering of marginalized communities of all sorts. We also see the joy alive in everyone. A joy that fights to exist despite efforts from inequitable systems and institutions to quell that joy. We align ourselves with organizations and professionals that are driven by passion (and data) to support black, brown, and indigenous communities achieve their self-determined goals and priorities.
We put our clients’ needs first.
Our purpose is to use our expertise in service of our clients. We leverage our training and experience to address issues of importance to our clients. Broader application of any knowledge acquired during the course of an assignment is secondary to providing the client what is most useful to them as they do their work.
We are culturally responsive.
We employ culturally responsive practices and value inclusivity and collaboration. We acknowledge the harm that extractive attitudes toward marginalized communities has caused. Above all, we seek to honor the trust communities place in us when they ask us to work alongside them (including the community of social sector professionals). We also acknowledge that the social sector hasn’t always been a safe space for black, brown, and indigenous professionals. We are dedicated to creating an enriching professional environment where all staff are lifted up and respected for their talents. We are especially committed to building a pipeline that allows junior staff to develop into field leaders.
We bring rigor to our work.
We are scientists who value multiple ways of knowing. Qualitative and quantitative methods are used as part of our mixed-methods approach. We apply mixed-methods, an approach that uses qualitative and quantitative data collection methods to gain information. In addition, we stay open to innovations from the field aimed at understanding the complexity of the issues faced by the social sector.
We are interdisciplinary.
Diversity is a core value that we extend to our areas of expertise. Our team approach incorporates the varied expertise of staff and partners. Multiple perspectives and professional backgrounds allow for creative problem-solving.
“We were pleased with TR’s work and would readily work with them again in the future, finding them to be thorough and professional. Their expertise in program design and program evaluation is unparalleled.”
–M.C. / Founder / Mindfulness and Contemplative Action (MICA) Lab