America Works, Inc.
Created in 1984 by Peter Cove, America Works acts as a for-profit job placement agency providing companies with candidates for entry-level positions. America Works traditionally targets hard-to-serve welfare recipients and helps clients obtain employment in the private sector by providing job training, work readiness, skills building, job placement, and support services. As an incentive to employers to hire its trained participants, America Works offers tax credits, human resources support, no initial placement fees, and pre-screened employees.
Applied Survey Research (ASR)
ASR is a non-profit research organization dedicated to helping people build better communities by providing valid, meaningful, and usable assessments and outcome evaluations necessary for effective community planning and programming. ASR helps communities and organizations use existing data or generate new data and share it with community leaders, the media and the public. We believe in using data to continuously improve efforts and provide an understanding between program work and community trends.
Bowman Performance Consulting, LLC
Bowman Performance Consulting, LLC (BPC) is a certified federal 8A, minority, and woman owned business. BPC provides unique social science research, technical assistance, and evaluation services for public, private, and Tribal organizations. BPC gathers measurable and meaningful data from the clients and their stakeholders/customers so that individuals, programs, and organizations function more efficiently and effectively for the long-term. BPC services fall under four main categories: research, development, implementation, and evaluation. Some services include: feasibility studies, needs assessments, focus groups, surveying, No Child Left Behind support and compliance, program development, organizational improvement design, developing cultural/contextual relevance for programs and training, data analysis, program monitoring, organizational accreditation/certification, curriculum development for individualized materials and/or training, leadership training, customer service training, communication training, strategic planning, literature reviews, qualitative/quantitative (mixed method) research studies, and program, organizational, and systems evaluation.
Caldwell and Associated, Inc.
Caldwell and Associates, Inc., established in 1991, is an international organizational research and development firm located in Research Triangle Park, NC. The firm helps clients increase their capacity to succeed by providing research-based management solutions to public sector organizations at local, state, national and international levels. The firm is a certified minority-owned and woman-owned business specializing in organizational research, program evaluation, and organizational development.
Carson Research Consulting
Carson Research Consulting was established in 1998 to provide research, evaluation and consulting services to help clients assess the needs of programs and communities, conduct outcome-based evaluations, enhance programs and services, and engage in effective planning. We evaluate programs and conduct assessments in the areas of substance abuse; juvenile justice; criminal justice; child welfare; domestic violence; family services; courts; mental health services; educational programs; reproductive health; and HIV/AIDS. We have experience working with single service agencies, city, state, and federal government agencies, non-profit organizations, private foundations, and individuals.
Center for Network Development
The Center for Network Development is committed to improving outcomes for at risk youth, juvenile offenders and their families by facilitating development of collaborative cross system and sector solutions, and implementation of best practices and promising approaches within state and local jurisdictions. Through the expertise of staff and consultants, the CND provides training, technical assistance and evaluation services to help clients achieve their goals and objectives.
