Education (K-12, post-secondary, college and career readiness)
Social Sciences (public policy, social justice, urban and rural issues)
Community Development (community health, social determinants, housing)
Culture & Arts (creative industries, innovation, advocacy)
Customer & Consumer Experience (product, service, experience)
Provide tailored services that yield rigorous, accessible and actionable findings, products, and tools.
Work alongside you to learn who you are and what you do – strategically leveraging collective expertise and resources.
Strategically embed opportunities for client learning to strengthen sustainable action and change, and reduce dependence on external consultants.
At Apricity, we believe in the power of evaluation to communicate our clients’ successes to audiences that matter most. Evaluation is more than just a composite of findings and figures – it is a carefully crafted story of one’s journey, impacts, and lessons learned to bring about positive transformation in our work. Apricity approaches evaluation as a collaborative endeavor. We work alongside clients to leverage local and field-specific expertise in both designing and carrying out the evaluation. We also embed opportunities for client learning along the way around evaluation best practices to build internal capacity.
Apricity Group provides rigorous evaluation services to meet a variety of goals and purposes:
Queries the need for a particular program, project, service or product, or the discrepancy between current and desired conditions. Most valuable for program/project planning and formation purposes.
Determines if and how a program/project is making progress towards its outcomes. Most valuable for program/project improvement and making mid-course corrections.
Determines the impact of a program/project on stakeholders, and how outcomes were met (customers, clients, consumers, services recipients, etc.).
Combination of formative and summative inquiry that examines the effect of program/project activities on stakeholders, in addition to the efficacy of operational processes and procedures.
Honors cultural context, values, and protocols, and uses them to inform the design and activities of the evaluation.
Adapts to changes in program/project activities and environments; relevant for exploratory initiatives that are most likely to experience shifts in outcomes.
Measures standards-based performance in relation to organizational values, products, or service effectiveness.
Apricity Group offers tailored research services that can help you make informed decisions about the direction of your organization, as well as how to approach your customers, clients and communities. Our research products can help inform program/project planning, community engagement, branding, public relations campaigns, resource allocation, insight into customer experiences and much more.
Experimental, Quasi-experimental and Case Study Research
Customer Experience Research
Support Research (e.g. literature reviews, annotated bibliographies, secondary data analysis, briefs, digital mapping, data visualization)
Apricity Group works with local, state and federal agencies, foundations, organizational boards (e.g. boards of education, councils, nonprofits), and businesses to produce rigorous research, and objective, evidence-based analyses of complex issues.
Policy development
Policy briefs for key audiences
Analyses of proposed or enacted legislation
Regional and state comparisons
Alignment studies
Convening policy makers
Facilitation and trainings (e.g. community outreach, advocacy)
Implementation and compliance monitoring
Customized technical assistance
Apricity Group’s team has extensive experience helping clients conduct community-based and internal assessments culminating in strategic and implementation plans. Apricity works collaboratively with clients and partners to gain a comprehensive understanding of audience needs through careful formative research, taking into account social, cultural and structural factors that might affect client objectives, including policies and regulations. We then work with with our clients to develop a plan of action to respond to those findings and monitor fidelity of plan implementation.
Strategic planning needs analysis
Environmental scans
Community-wide and organizational needs sensing
Facilitation for vision, mission, objectives and strategies development
Implementation planning and monitoring