Co-Create is a CommNS team dedicated to informing community-led social change through collaborative research, evaluation, and facilitation. All our projects are grounded in co-creation—we work hand in hand with those closest to an issue to find new paths forward.
What difference can Co-Create make for your organization?
Read about the reflections from our clients and partners.
Our Services
Services for community organizations, nonprofits, and public sector partners
Evaluation, applied research, and community-engaged research
- Development or refinement of evaluation strategy and plans
- Data collection, analysis, and reporting
- Advisory group development and facilitation
- Participatory data analysis, interpretation, and writing
- Multi-audience and multimedia dissemination
- Multilingual and multicultural services in Spanish and HMoob
Needs assessments, landscape scans, and research-to-practice translation
- Community needs assessments data collection and analysis
- Scans of programs and organizations in a topic or geographic region
- Review and summarization of research to inform program planning
- Program planning and curriculum development
Professional development and capacity building
- Workshops and webinars in stakeholder engagement, evaluation, data use, and communicating learning to others
- Coaching and mentoring services for evaluation and learning professionals and nonprofit boards
We also provide customized services for philanthropic organizations and academic partners.
Stories from our partners
The Co-Create Team served as the academic partner for our statewide pilot project testing a funding model to expand philanthropic support for school-based mental health programs. … Throughout the project, our Co-Create partners met with us to understand the funding model and the dynamics of our relationships with the participating school districts. They asked numerous questions about the funding model and our approach. Their questions made us smarter.
Their evaluation report has helped us improve the funding model and is helping us recruit additional funders to expand the program to more school districts throughout Wisconsin, which means more students will have access to essential mental health services.
Steve Goldberg, Executive Director, WEA Member Benefits Foundation
Working with Co-Create really helped us to see our program through new eyes, make adjustments to increase benefit and consider future operational changes to ensure equitable outcomes for those we serve. The Co-Create staff were very genuine and easy to work with. We deeply appreciate both the process and the outcome of our evaluation work with Co-Create.
Paula Drew, Co-Director, Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network
Bring us your questions, challenges, and dreams—let’s create together!
Contact Amy Washbush, Associate Director for Engaged Research, at ahilgendorf@wisc.edu or 608-712-5950
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