CommunityScan services include community needs assessments, housing studies (including analyses of impediments to fair housing choice, market analyses, and other HUD-required studies), public perception, and other research. Working with our clients, we define research objectives, develop research instruments, gather and analyze data, and report results clearly. CommunityScan clients include United Ways, housing authorities, HOME consortia, Community Action Agencies and other eligible entities, city and county planning departments, and others.

Through our proprietary, data-driven methods and process, we identify the core life values, experiential psychographics, and underlying ethos of your best donors so every dollar you spend on fund development is both efficient and effective. Our statistics-centered quantitative insights are combined with adroit qualitative coding and analysis to identify donor personas that are most likely to join your ranks and lift your donor base to new levels.

OrgScan is our proprietary tool that measures organizational health and prescribes possible solutions for improved efficiencies. Symptoms of misaligned and unhealthy agencies include lower-than-expected performance, unnecessary processes, obsolete programs, ineffective initiatives, and low morale. But OrgScan is not just for ailing entities—it also helps strong organizations become stronger. Many Community Action Agencies and eligible entities utilize OrgScan to fulfill their CSBG-required biennial Organizational Standards and Risk Assessment.

Our qualitative and quantitative research provides nonprofit and government leaders sound data for long-term planning and successful decision making. Through telephone surveys, focus groups, one-on-one interviews, and online surveys, we efficiently gather the most beneficial primary data for your needs. We conduct solid statistical analyses to help you make the best decisions possible.