Consulting Services

The RGK Center partners with nonprofit and public sector clients who have a particular topic or project that benefits from rigorous academic and professional management by RGK Center faculty. Several client projects have been incorporated into the LBJ School curriculum as a year-long Policy Research Project (PRP) course. PRPs offer graduate students the opportunity to work with a client on specific deliverables and provides the client with a team of 10-15 graduate students working under the direction of RGK Center faculty. Recent consulting projects appear below.

AmeriCorps*Texas Statewide Evaluation (2010/2011)

The goal of the evaluation is to analyze the value added of AmeriCorps State and National programs to Texas and to assess the organizational and management structures most commonly associated with successful, value-adding programs. The evaluation will help to describe the impact that AmeriCorps programs have on their communities, as well as demonstrate why some programs produce more benefits than others. The project is funded by the OneStar Foundation. Results from the evaluation will improve the ability of OneStar and their AmeriCorps grantees to understand program impact, as well as assist them to better achieve their program objectives.

Contact Rebecca Sorensen for more information on this project.

United Jewish Communities (UJC) (2007/2008): Jewish Service Learning - An Analysis of Participant Jewish Identity and Program Characteristics. Led by Dr. Sarah Jane Rehnborg.

OneStar Foundation PRP (2007/08): Research and map the nonprofit sector in Texas, conduct surveys of current and potential OneStar grantees and develop a multi-dimensional performance scorecard of essential metrics for benchmarking.

George Foundation PRP (2006/07): Community needs assessment of Fort Bend County in Texas to inform the strategic giving priorities of the client.

Central Texas Nonprofit Capacity Study PRP (2005/06): Joint project with the Bush School of Government at Texas A&M University to research and analyze the nonprofit and volunteer capacity building industry of Central Texas.

Lance Armstrong Foundation (2006/2007): Logic model and framework for measuring performance of the foundation's Survivorship Summit.

AARP Office of Academic Affairs and Volunteer Alliances (2006): Conducted research colloquium on the New Aging Enterprise, a think-tank event with leading figures on gerontology and age-specific business.

If you have a project you'd like to discuss, contact Moira Porter.