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Alameda County Homeless Continuum of Care Council
Homeless Count interviewer training • Alameda County
The Alameda County-wide Homeless Continuum of Care Council conducted a survey with 1,500 homeless and near-homeless people to obtain reliable information about the number, composition, and service needs of the county’s homeless population. Working in collaboration with colleagues, Korwin Consulting designed a curriculum to train survey interviewers, developed training materials, and trained 200 volunteer interviewers recruited to administer this survey.
Bay Area Community Resources
Evaluation Learning Circle • California
Bay Area Community Resources (BACR) promotes the healthy development of individuals, families, and communities through direct services, volunteerism, and partnerships in the San Francisco Bay Area. Korwin Consulting led a 6-week evaluation learning circle with emerging BACR organizational leaders, training these staff members to use an evaluative lens to design, assess, and modify programs and strategies that foster safer and healthier communities throughout the Bay Area.
Bread & Roses
Market Needs Analysis • Bay Area
Bread & Roses, an organization bringing free, live, quality entertainment to people confined in institutions or otherwise isolated from society was ready to grow its program and reach more adults and children throughout the Bay Area. The organization asked Korwin Consulting to conduct a market analysis to identify the universe of prospective organizations to which they might bring their programming. Findings from this study enabled Bread & Roses to implement strategic growth in the ensuing years.
Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund
Evaluation • Bay Area
The Season of Sharing (SOS) program raises funds and provides assistance for Bay Area individuals and families who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness. Through working agreements with Bay Area social service providers, SOS issues one-time emergency assistance to these families—helping many avoid homelessness and escalating crisis in their lives. Our evaluation analyzed the people served by SOS and the practices used in meeting the needs of these families and individuals. What needs bring grant recipients to seek help through SOS? Who is helped by SOS? In what ways are they helped? Do certain populations require different forms of help?
Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement
Affinity Group Management • National
Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (formerly known as the Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service), is a funder affinity group dedicated to promoting civic engagement within the philanthropic, private, and public sectors. As a member of BTW Consultants’ team, Lisa Korwin managed this affinity group, convening conferences and workshops, producing publications, and shepherding the organization’s process into becoming a 501(c)3 organization.
Trans-Bay Training & Education Collaboration (T-TEC)
Needs Assessment and Project Evaluation • Bay Area
The Trans-Bay Training & Education Collaboration, a partnership between City College of San Francisco, Berkeley City College, the Regional Health Occupations Resource Center, and a number of health and social service community partners, sought to address the critical training needs within the health and social service field. Korwin Consulting’s formative research study provided T-TEC partners with key information about the training needs of frontline health and social service paraprofessionals, including how best to sensitively and effectively engage a multicultural and skill-varied current and prospective workforce in these trainings. Once implemented, Korwin Consulting evaluated the initiative, capturing students’ educational and workforce outcomes.