PRAXIS – Building Knowledge for Action – works with organizations and groups to help them find and create the knowledge they need to improve their services and projects, to envision and develop new ones, and to take informed action to address change. We achieve these goals through program evaluation, community-based research, educational workshops, and other specialized services.

If, as most of us believe, we have the power to shape the world according to our visions and desires then how come we have collectively made such a mess of it? Our social and physical world can and must be made, re-made, and, if that goes awry, re-made yet again. Where to begin and what is to be done are the key questions.

David Harvey, Geographer and Author – Spaces of Hope

Recent Projects

Burns Street Square Outreach Survey

Facilitated a steering committee of community organization representatives to develop and administer an outreach survey to neighborhood residents and Missoula Community Food Co-op members, trained volunteer survey administrators and completed data collection, analysis, report writing, and dissemination of findings.

Adventures in Learning’s Sustainable Lives USDA Community Food Assessment – Fremont County, Wyoming

Ongoing consultation to facilitate a community food assessment process, to create data collection instruments, and to review reporting documents.

Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant Consultation

Developed a logic model, theory of change, and measurement indicators for the Bureau of Business and Economic Research – University of Montana to evaluate the policy work of six sites in the State of Montana engaged in developing culturally appropriate community-based environmental prevention strategies to address lifespan binge drinking.

Upcoming Workshops

October 1, 2009
Missoula, Montana

Facilitating Effective Meetings
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October 14-15, 2009
Missoula, Montana

Building Evaluation Capacity for Nonprofit Organizations:
Part 1 – Focusing and Planning the Evaluation
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October 27-28, 2009
Missoula, Montana

Building Evaluation Capacity for Nonprofit Organizations:
Part II – Conducting and Processing the Evaluation
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