Our Approach

Our clients do amazing work in the world to improve lives, ecosystems and more; we bring insights, innovations and actionable learning to support their outcomes and impacts.

Social Impact

We care about the work of our clients and want data and outcomes thinking to enhance their work.

ORS Impact prides itself on a style of engagement that is utilization-driven, focused on learning, and grounded in rigorous, state-of-the art methodologies.

We believe that these qualities produce results that help our clients gain valuable insights that propel—and sometimes challenge—thinking. This helps drive future action toward greater effectiveness and, ultimately, impact.

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"Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) has worked with ORS Impact for many years because they produce high quality work that provides valuable insights into our work with PCHP families and guidance on continuing to improve our services. Our goal is to prepare vulnerable children and families for school and life success, and ORS Impact’s evaluations support and enhance this focus on positive social impact."

-Sarah E. Walzer, CEO Parent-Child Home Program

Publications

Related Resources & Publications

Feature Report

Streams of Social Impact Work: Building bridges in a new evaluation era with market-oriented players at the table

This working paper calls for optimizing the exchange between market-based actors in social impact assessment and the profession of evaluation.

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Our Work

Learn more about our related projects

Feature project

Educare Learning Network and Ounce of Prevention

In 2015, The Educare Learning Network launched the Educare Best Practices Training pilot an effort to broaden the impact of the effective Educare model of early learning beyond the walls of Educare organizations by systematically sharing lessons learned and best practices through collaborations with community-based organizations.

FEATURE project

Parent Child Home Program

PCHP is a home visiting program launched in 1965, that aims to strengthen families and increase school readiness for young children through a culturally appropriate program model that promotes literacy, language, and social-emotional development by way of positive parenting and parent-child verbal interaction.

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