When you need an answer you can defend.

Governments, school systems, foundations, and nonprofits hire PARCA when a decision needs evidence that will hold up in a budget hearing, a board room, a grant application, or the newspaper. We bring the same independence to contract work that we bring to public research.

What we do:

Program Evaluation

Is it working, and why? Goal, process, and outcome evaluation

Economic Impact Analysis

Jobs, output, income, and tax revenue, modeled in IMPLAN and REMI

GIS and Spatial Analysis

Mapping, boundary layers, and visitor-origin studies

Surveys

Design, fielding, and analysis with documented methodology

Salary Studies

Independent compensation benchmarking against verified peers

Dashboards and Data Tools

Custom dashboards, databases, and staff training

Who Hires PARCA?

Cities and Counties

School Systems

State Agencies and Boards

Foundations

Nonprofits

Economic Development Orgs.

Tourism Boards

Health Systems

Public Safety Agencies

Industry Associations

The One Condition:

PARCA controls the methods and the conclusions in every engagement. We promise rigorous, useful work delivered on time. We do not promise that findings will align with your preferences, only that they will be accurate, objective, and useful. Clients who need a predetermined result should hire someone else. Clients who need a result that survives scrutiny hire us for exactly that reason.

How an engagement works:

Conversation

Tell us the decision. Sometimes we already have the data.

Proposal

Questions, methods, deliverables, timeline, cost. In writing.

The work

Regular check-ins on progress, with no direction on what the findings should be.

Delivery

A report built to be read by non-specialists and to withstand specialists.

Publication

Contact PARCA to discuss publication and confidentiality requirements for your project.

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Or call Ryan Hankins at (205) 278-7115