Services

Are you a FOUNDATION or NONPROFIT looking for better ways to set priorities for grant-making? The American Human Development Project can help you determine areas of highest need in a range of sectors,  identify key levers for change, tailor strategies, maximize your impact, track progress, and present your results to key audiences.

Are you a GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL or POLICYMAKER looking to understand the issues your constituents face? We can assemble the evidence needed to help you design, improve, and evaluate policy approaches or programs aimed at improving the well-being and opportunities of your electorate.

Are you a CORPORATION looking for data analysis? Our data analysis and presentation can help you understand local socioeconomic conditions, evaluate education or income levels of workers in a potential new locale, or make dynamic presentations about demographic and social patterns.

The American Human Development Project delivers data analysis and evaluative services in areas related to well-being and access to opportunity in communities across the nation. We empower our partners with detailed, fact-based portraits of their target communities, constituents, and customers. Our data and research specialty areas include demographics, economics, health, education, environment, politics, and criminal justice, among others. We offer comprehensive reports, as well as a la carte research and communication services.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORTS

Through the Portrait series, the American Human Development Project partners with foundations, civic organizations, corporate social responsibility departments, and others to produce human development reports focused on specific geographic areas—from local communities to metro areas, congressional districts, and states.

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A LA CARTE SERVICES

• DATA COLLECTION: We create customized data sets, develop indexes and scorecards, and identify appropriate metrics using official federal, state, and local data and qualitative surveys.

• DATA ANALYSIS: We specialize in sophisticated modeling and multivariate analysis techniques and use them to uncover trends, project future change, and communicate the story the numbers are telling.

• DATA VISUALIZATION & COMMUNICATION: We create interactive tools and online mapping programs that are both methodologically rigorous and accessible to the general public.

• WRITING SERVICES: We transform complex concepts and arguments into powerful narratives told in accessible language.

• TRAINING: We design and deliver training in how to use American Human Development Project and other data for understanding, analysis, agenda-setting, community mobilization, needs assessment, and advocacy campaigns.