About PRA - PRA - Philliber Research Associates

_____Philliber Research Associates, an independent research and evaluation firm, specializes in outcome-based evaluation and program planning services for social, cultural, educational, health, media, and other programs. Founded in 1987, PRA has evaluated hundreds of programs across the United States and abroad. PRA has a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, program evaluators, data analysts and support staff at offices in New York, Washington D.C., and California. Each of our evaluation projects is supervised by a senior staff member with a Ph.D.-level degree.

We serve:

• human service organizations (education, health, and social services);
  

• arts and cultural institutions (performing arts, museums, and media programs);
  

• funders of programs (foundations, government agencies, and other philanthropic associations);
  

• other firms and businesses seeking to improve organizational effectiveness.
  

_____We are a full service evaluation firm employing a permanent staff of evaluators, analysts and support personnel. Our services include: needs assessments, reviews of existing research, summaries of best practices, development of measurable objectives, creation of evaluation plans and designs for grant proposals, development of measurement tools including surveys, training for staff to use evaluation tools, database creation, analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, production of reports to meet the needs of diverse audiences, planning for new programs, and evaluation of funding portfolios.

_____We have a willingness to work with our clients to make sure that high quality research results from our efforts. Our senior evaluators have doctoral degrees in Sociology, Psychology, Public Health and Social Work. We are skilled statisticians, data analysts, and data collectors. We include in our repertoire of skills both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and believe that both are important tools in research that are useful under different circumstances. We produce myriad evaluations each year and have worked with many of our clients for five years or more—a testimony to their satisfaction with our work.