GPC Education Services.
Gilchrist Progressive Consulting offers technical assistance and services to grow your passion through program design, administration and evaluation to grant writing, research assistance, and curriculum development for businesses or faith-based settings.
Grant Writing
Writing strong proposals is essential for schools, nonprofit organizations, and small businesses to provide needed resources and services to clients. It’s a time-consuming and tedious process that is difficult to execute in high-demand or student-intensive environments. We provide just-in-time technical assistance to determine an organization’s level of readiness to submit a strong proposal, as well as administrative, research and technical writing assistance for clients.
Program Design and Development
Designing programs that meet the needs of your target audience requires data, research, and a collaborative process. GPC provides best practices from research, stakeholder interviews with the target audience to design and develop programs to foster meaningful results with participants. We work with our clients to develop programs that will have a significant lifelong impact.
Program Evaluation
Evaluating the implementation of a program/initiative provides recommendations for next steps. GPC provides a systematic assessment through the collection of qualitative and quantitative data sources to measure program outcomes. We work with our clients to create a customized evaluation plan, data collection and analysis plans, and a logic model. Development of a simple logic model to define resources, activities, outputs and short, intermediate and long-term outcomes.
Strategic Planning
GPC provides services for clients to set strategic goals, improve organizational operational efficiency, and drive world class levels of performance with an organization. We work with our clients using proven strategic planning methods to leverage input, from stakeholders, partners, and key clients to develop an actionable and measurable strategic plan aligned with organizational objectives for maximum results.
Qualitative Research
GPC provides services to researchers wanting to enhance their understanding of qualitative research methods. This includes providing guidance on best practices in qualitative research for specific projects, review of qualitative grant proposals, and review of qualitative data collection instruments. We guide clients to design their qualitative data analysis methods and shape a co-analysis service. We can work with you, as part of your research team, to understand the flow of your qualitative data, organize data management strategies and meet important goals and deadlines for your projects.