Washington Conservation Corps (WCC) focuses on the design and implementation of environmental restoration projects, including wetland and riparian corridor enhancement and restoration. This report was contracted to The Watershed Company (TWC) to evaluate the success of grant-funded restoration projects by evaluating the efficacy of the WCC restoration activities from 2014-2015. TWC assessed changes in native cover and invasive cover via a Before-After, Control-Impact (BACI) statistical analysis. 

Back to Work 50+: Women’s Economic Stability Initiative (BTW50+: WESI) is an AARP program that is geared on building the capacity of local education and training institutions to address the needs of older women workers between 50-64 years of age with incomes between 120% and 200% of poverty level. The six subgrantees’ participation allowed for an increase of the number of program staff members and the capacity to serve larger numbers of participants.

Study Goals:

The evaluation’s three components have the following goals:

The Montana State Parks AmeriCorps Program is an environmental service program of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks that promotes healthy, active, and environmentally aware communities by enhancing park land, enriching educational opportunities, increasing volunteerism, and improving community outreach in state parks. Montana State Parks AmeriCorps members educate and engage park visitors about the threat of noxious weeds to parks, public lands, and the state.

Study Goals:

EarthCorps is a Seattle-based non-profit organization that trains young adults in environmental restoration techniques along shorelines, forests, and trails in the Puget Sound area. Over the course of a year-long training program, volunteers (including AmeriCorps members) learn practical skills that can be used to combat global warming, pollution, and environmental degradation.

Study Goals:

Year Up’s Professional Training Corps program in Philadelphia (PCT-P) provides intensive full-time training and work experience for low-income young adults aged 18-24. Unlike Year Up’s core Professional Training Corps program (PTC), its PTC-P programs are located on the campuses of college partners, rather than in stand-alone offices.

Both the core and the PTC-P versions of Year Up:

Scaling Programs with Research Evidence and Effectiveness (SPREE) is a process that provides insights into conditions that can help identify and support effective interventions that are ready to be scaled. Foundations can apply SPREE to help them and their grantees scale successfully. Implementing SPREE can assist foundations in two ways:

1. Using evaluation research as a tool to determine which interventions are likely to produce desired outcomes

2. Identifying those organizations ready to scale them

This study looked at how Americans age 55 and older can also be part of community solutions to disasters through National Service programs such as RSVP. IT focuses specifically on how Senior Corps volunteers were engaged in responding to the 2012 wildfires in Jefferson, El Paso, and Larimer Counties in Colorado.

The study found that:

This guide is designed to help practitioners and researchers work together to design an impact study with baseline equivalence and in turn learning how to determine if an impact study is likely to produce meaningful results. This is part of a series of guides that help practitioners assess their scaling efforts critically, collect evidence on the effectiveness of their interventions, and increase the likelihood of effective scaling of successful interventions.

This guide will help practitioners develop formal strategies (also known as implementation supports) to help consistently deliver an intervention as it was designed, which is especially helpful for organizations scaling an intervention and assessing implementation fidelity. This is part of a series of guides that help practitioners assess their scaling efforts critically, collect evidence on the effectiveness of their interventions, and increase the likelihood of effective scaling of successful interventions.

This guide is intended to help practitioners to thoroughly describe their intervention and communicate the following to potential funders or stakeholders. This is part of a series of guides that help practitioners assess their scaling efforts critically, collect evidence on the effectiveness of their interventions, and increase the likelihood of effective scaling of successful interventions.