 Founded company; responsible for organization’s research and evaluation efforts, fiscal operations, and technical assistance and advocacy portfolios Conduct program evaluations involving a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies; ensure work is aligned with American Evaluation Association standards Provide technical assistance involving program evaluation and education issues to community non-profit groups, universities, government agencies, school districts, foundations, and private sector companies, including organizational evaluation capacity building, logic modelling, metric development, and proposal review activities The Logos Consulting Group, which draws its name from the Greek word for reasoned discourse, believes that organizations and programs can improve through the application of systematic research methods to assess program design, implementation, and effectiveness. More specifically, Logos believes the purpose of program evaluation and applied research is to provide empirical information that is useful to program staff, senior management, program developers, policy makers, funders, and other stakeholders, allowing them to act on the information in appropriate and timely ways.