LABARBERA RESEARCH & EVALUATION
Evidence That Strengthens Mission
Helping mission-driven organizations build evidence-informed models that demonstrate meaningful human change.
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Programs exist to change lives. Evaluation exists to understand, strengthen, and demonstrate that change.
At LaBarbera Research & Evaluation, we partner with nonprofits, educational institutions, faith-based organizations, and community initiatives to integrate rigorous evaluation into program design, implementation, and growth, creating evidence-informed models that help organizations strengthen their work, understand impact, and inspire confidence among funders and stakeholders.
MEASURE
Develop meaningful outcome measures that go beyond outputs to capture lasting change.
LEARN
Use rigorous evaluation to strengthen programs through continuous learning and improvement.
DEMONSTRATE
Generate credible evidence that builds trust with funders, partners, and the communities you serve.
OUR APPROACH
Progress toward flourishing.
Programs often serve people whose lives are changing in complex ways. A single outcome rarely tells the whole story.
LaBarbera Research & Evaluation uses a Progress Toward Flourishing framework to examine meaningful change across the dimensions of life most relevant to the people, program, and community being evaluated.
Rather than asking only whether a participant reached a particular endpoint, we also ask: What movement is occurring? Where is life getting better? Where are people still struggling? And how is the program contributing to that change?
The framework brings together rigorous outcome measurement with lived experience and narrative evidence to provide a fuller picture of impact.
Depending on context, progress toward flourishing may include dimensions such as:
30 YEARS
of evaluation experience
NONPROFITS & MISSION-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS
across the U.S.
SPECIALIZED EXPERTISE
in incarceration, reentry, and complex social contexts.
MIXED-METHODS RESEARCH
rigorous, practical, and decision-oriented
RESEARCH BROUGHT TO LIFE
It’s Changed What I’m Living For draws on a multi-year evaluation of prison-based theological education, integrating data and narrative to examine how transformation and human flourishing take shape during incarceration.
Robin LaBarbera is an independent evaluator focused on how programs contribute to human flourishing across complex social contexts.
"I can attest that Robin is a true professional. Her evaluation process and analysis provide data that is extremely important in enhancing organizational performance. This is one of the reasons HOM is excelling and has become a leader in Reentry Housing & Programs in Washington State."
Jeffery Nichols
Grant Manager
House of Mercy Ministries
Helping organizations strengthen programs, demonstrate meaningful impact, and build evidence that changes lives.
(562) 476-8166
robin@labarberaresearch.com
1198 Pacific Coast Hwy., #D230,
Seal Beach, CA 90740