Peter York is a Principal at BCT Partners. He has over 20 years of experience as a consultant and researcher in the evaluation and nonprofit fields, as well as a national spokesperson for social impact and impact measurement issues. He has designed and led numerous research and evaluation studies with private philanthropies, corporations, nonprofit organizations and government agencies. He has authored book chapters, academic and professional articles, and a book on the topic of evaluation for philanthropists – “Funder's Guide to Evaluation: Leveraging Evaluation to Improve Nonprofit Effectiveness”. He has spent the last six years developing analytic techniques that leverage machine learning algorithms and big data to create predictive, prescriptive and rigorous evaluation models and tools for social change agents. He recently co-authored a book chapter on this work – “The Application of Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning to Risk Assessment in Juvenile Justice: The Florida Experience.” He is a popular speaker on evaluation, capacity building and data science/analytics, presenting regularly at national and regional conferences throughout US. Prior to joining Community Science, he was the principal designer of nationally-recognized assessment tools and automated, data-driven evaluation tools like the Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT), the Service Enterprise Diagnostic (SED), the impact Capacity Assessment Tool (iCAT), and the Youth Development impact Learning System (YDiLS). Mr. York serves/has served as an advisor or/member of social impact groups such as the Alliance for Effective Social Investing, Reimagining Service/Presidio Institute, Data Analyst for Social Good, the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, and the Social Innovation Fund. York has recently become a Leap Ambassador, a private community of nonprofit thought leaders who are committed to the adoption of high performance in the nonprofit sector.

The Evaluators’ Institute (TEI) aims to strengthen evaluations across the globe by providing high-quality evaluation training to individuals and organizations. Taught by leaders in the field, our courses offer technical rigor in evaluation methods and practice through participant-centered, adult-learning approaches.

Community Science is an award winning research and development organization that works with governments, foundations, and non-profit organizations on solutions to social problems through community and other systems changes.Using state-of-the-art qualitative and quantitative methods, Community Science’s goal is to strengthen the science and practice of community change in order to build healthy, just and equitable communities. The organization’s services include research and evaluation services, capacity-building products and services, and initiative management and support.Since 1997, our objective has been simple: to develop the knowledge necessary to address social problems in a way that benefits all communities. We provide an integrated approach to building the capacity of organizations and institutions, combining the principled, rigorous use of scientific methods with practical tools to foster learning and improved capacity for social change.

Leads Algorhythm's efforts to leverage “impact analytics” to create the tools for advancing social solutions for greatest positive impact. Impact analytics is a set of social science methods and data technologies for delivering a combination of descriptive analytics, alongside cutting-edge predictive analytics and groundbreaking prescriptive analytics, delivered to hands-on change agents through real-time, interactive communication.

Oversaw all evaluation, data mining and research practices.