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.
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.
- Full Report (PDF)
George Foundation PRP (2006/07): Community needs assessment of Fort Bend County in Texas to inform the strategic giving priorities of the client.
- Full Report (PDF)
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.
- Executive Summary (PDF)
- Final Report (PDF)
- Executive Director's Survey Instrument (PDF)
- Volunteer Manager Survey Codebook (PDF)
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.
