Women
The California Wellness Foundation
Women’s Health Clinic Research • California
In implementing its Women’s Health priority area, the California Wellness Foundation sought to define and map the universe of women’s health clinics in California and to better understand the complex factors that affect them. Working in collaboration with Schacht & Associates, Korwin Consulting conducted key informant interviews, a literature review, and surveyed women’s clinics and patients throughout California. Findings from the study were used to better target foundation resources and to inform decisions regarding funding and technical assistance to these clinics.
City of San Jose Domestic Violence Advisory Board
Outcome-Based Strategic Plan • San Jose/Santa Clara County
Korwin Consulting facilitated a year-long outcome-based planning process in collaboration with the City of San Jose’s Family/Domestic Violence Advisory Board. Through a review of local, state and national data, interviews with key community leaders, and the convening of strategic community planning retreats, the Advisory Board is better positioned to respond effectively to domestic and family violence within their community.
Ms. Foundation for Women
Reproductive Rights Coalition and Organizing Fund Evaluation Design and Women of Color-Led Policy Evaluation • National
Ms. Foundation for Women’s Reproductive Rights Coalition and Organizing Fund (RRCOF) has provided grantmaking, technical assistance, and networking activities to strengthen state-level reproductive rights organizations and infrastructures across the United States. Korwin Consulting designed RRCOF’s evaluation and associated evaluation tools to measure the outcomes resulting from this national fund.
Through RRCOF and other Initiatives, Ms. Foundation funds and supports women of color-led organizations committed to advancing policies at the local, state, and national levels. The foundation engaged Korwin Consulting to assist their lead consultant in the design and analysis of a study measuring the impact of this funding, effective grantee strategies, and the role of leadership by women of color in advancing advocacy outcomes.
Narika
Survivor Economic Empowerment and Development (SEED) Evaluation Design • Bay Area
Narika seeks to confront the problem of domestic violence in the South Asian community and address the unmet needs of abused South Asians within a culturally sensitive, linguistically diverse model. Korwin Consulting is assisting Narika in designing an evaluation for its Survivor Economic Empowerment and Development (SEED) program. SEED aims to prevent domestic violence and foster a safer community by strengthening the economic self-sufficiency and self-confidence of South Asian women through the development of leadership skills and the encouragement of personal and professional growth.
Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence
HomeSafe Transitional Housing Program Evaluation • Santa Clara County
Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, a Santa Clara-based comprehensive domestic violence agency, contracted with Korwin Consulting to evaluate the HomeSafe transitional housing program. Through a combination of key informant interviews, focus groups, and data analysis, Korwin Consulting’s retrospective evaluation of HomeSafe provided Next Door with the information needed to determine HomeSafe’s future program direction.
San Francisco Department on the Status of Women
Violence Against Women and Girls Needs Assessment • San Francisco
Korwin Consulting conducted a needs assessment on behalf of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women to better understand violence against women and girls in San Francisco. We assembled an experienced 12-person team reflecting the cultures and proficient in the languages most spoken by community members. We translated protocols and conducted focus groups and interviews in multiple languages—Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Arabic—resulting in a final product that continues to inform program practice and funding of anti-violence programs in San Francisco. Download Creating a Safer San Francisco: Integrating Multicultural Strategies to End Violence Against Women and Girls.
Santa Clara Domestic Violence Advocacy Consortium
Outcome-Based Strategic Plan • Santa Clara County
The Santa Clara Domestic Violence Advocacy Consortium promotes safety for battered women and their children by ensuring sustainability of its leadership, building consensus on best practices, ensuring representation of survivors, and bringing visibility to domestic violence. Korwin Consulting facilitated an outcome-based planning process that better positioned the Consortium to articulate its proposed outcomes as well as measure future impact.
Support Network for Battered Women
Victim Advocacy Project Evaluation • Santa Clara County
Korwin Consulting evaluated the Victim Advocacy Project, an early intervention model that enables the Support Network for Battered Women (SNBW) to proactively reach out to victims of domestic violence and provide them with access to support and services. Through an analysis of the domestic violence victims’ characteristics and program service delivery, as well as interviews with SNBW staff, detectives at participating police departments, and clients, this evaluation identified aspects of the program that are working and those that may need to be strengthened.
Tides Foundation
Reproductive Justice Initiative—Reproductive Justice Fund and Catalyst Fund Evaluation • National
The Tides Reproductive Justice Initiative incorporates two grantmaking vehicles, the Reproductive Justice Fund and the Catalyst Fund; both support emergent, innovative work that is focused on movement-building. With reproductive justice only recently taking center stage in funder discussions and with most supporting foundations, including Tides, nearing the two- or three-year mark in their reproductive justice grantmaking, the moment is ripe to evaluate the impact grantees are having on policy, base building, public opinion, and the framing of reproductive health and rights in the U.S.
Korwin Consulting is working with Tides and its funding partners to evaluate this multi-pronged initiative, using a combination of interviews, surveys, focus groups, evaluation coaching, and participant convenings with national and local philanthropic partners and women of color-led and other nonprofit reproductive justice organizations. Download the Catalyst Fund’s First Year Evaluation Report.
Women’s Cancer Resource Center
Multicultural Outreach Project Evaluation, and Agencywide Evaluation • Berkeley
The Women’s Cancer Resource Center (WCRC) empowers women with cancer to be active consumers and survivors, provides a community for women with cancer and their supporters, educates the general public about cancer, and advocates for a cancer-free society. Korwin Consulting evaluated several WCRC programs, including their In-Home Support Services, Volunteer, and Legal Services programs. In addition, Korwin Consulting evaluated WCRC’s Multicultural Outreach to Latinas and African American Women, funded by the California Endowment. This evaluation captured WCRC’s efforts to improve Latinas (including limited English-speaking and monolingual Spanish-speaking) and African American women with cancer access to comprehensive, coordinated, and affordable health care.
Women’s Foundation of California
Staff and Grant Partner Evaluation Capacity-Building and Women’s Policy Institute Evaluation • California
Korwin Consulting began partnering with the Women’s Foundation of California (WFC) in 2001 by conducting an assessment of its internal capacity to effectively evaluate practices and funding impact over time. We worked closely with foundation staff in developing logic models for their various initiatives, developed evaluation tools, implemented trainings to build foundation staff and grant partners’ capacity to measure the longer-term impact of their efforts, and implemented a comprehensive evaluation of the Foundation’s initiatives.
Korwin Consulting and WFC’s partnership continues through our ongoing evaluation of the Foundation’s Women’s Policy Institute, an innovative training program increasing the number of community-based women leaders who are actively involved in shaping and implementing policies affecting the health and well-being of women and girls in California.