About
In July 2007, Courtenay Carmody launched Carmody Consulting
Evaluation Services in response to the non-profit sector's need for assistance with establishing and measuring outcomes and
providing accountability to funders and constituents. After four years working primarily in New York City, we are now based
in Houston, and uniquely situated to continue offering services to clients in New York as well as the southwest.
To date, several part-time
staff have joined the team, assisting with field work, data analysis and strategic planning and development projects. Past
and current clients to date include: Academy for Educational Development, the Armory Foundation, Exploring the Arts, the Lower Eastside Girls Club, MOUSE, NYC Outward Bound, PENCIL, and Teaching Matters, Inc.
Carmody
Consulting Leadership Courtenay Carmody, M.A.,
President Courtenay is a Research and Evaluation consultant with twelve years of research and
evaluation experience in education and the non-profit sector; she brings extensive expertise to navigating the complexities and realities of program evaluation
in urban school settings. From 2000-July 2007, Courtenay oversaw all program evaluation and research efforts for MOUSE, a nonprofit organization that creates technology-based opportunities that motivate underserved students to succeed in today’s information society. Her duties at MOUSE included: the design of qualitative and quantitative evaluation initiatives; data analysis; monitoring and information management; ongoing internal and external reporting; program development; management of institutional review board (IRB) approvals; quality control; strategic planning; budgeting and management; grants development; survey design, implemention and analysis; best practices and new markets research; program management; database development; and curriculum development. Prior to working in the
non-profit sector, Courtenay taught middle and high school English and served in a number of secondary school administrative
capacities in Chicago and New York City. Ms. Carmody received her BA degree in English Literature and Education from Northwestern
University in 1988 and her Masters in Education from Teacher's College, Columbia University in 1997. Courtenay's most recent presentation experience includes concurrent sessions at the American Evaluation
Association (AEA) in 2008, the National After School Association Conference (NAA) in 2006, The National Education &
Computing Conference (NECC) in 2006 and 2005, presentations at local conferences and extensive student training and teacher
professional development. Ms. Carmody has also served as an advisor for the Bertelsmann Foundation's Teacher Awards and The
Academy of American Poets' Online Poetry Classroom and has authored extensive curriculum for Thirteen's Ed Online. Conferences/Presentations
Contact Us Carmody Consulting • Evaluation Services 2130 Peckham Street Houston, TX 77019 cc@carmodyconsulting.net Phone: 917.538.1016 Fax: 832.767.0072 |
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Staff and Consultants
Peter Homel, PhD, Data Analysis Consultant Peter
Homel is the Director of Biostatistics for the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Beth Israel Medical Center.
He is responsible for planning and designing clinical research projects and analyzing and interpreting the resulting data
from them. He holds degrees in both statistics and psychology and has worked in a wide variety of disciplines including psychology,
psychometrics, linguistics, education, and medicine. He has collaborated on or authored more than 60 publications in medicine,
psychology, and education. He has helped to develop instruments for infant temperament, quality of life in scoliosis patients,
and, most recently, personal burden in caregivers of chronically ill patients. His current research interests involve clinical
trials of treatments for fatigue in cancer patients, studies of quality of life in sickle cell disease patients undergoing
treatment for chronic pain, and measuring distress and burden in patients and their caregivers and identifying those in need
of psychosocial counseling.
Yalda Nikoomanesh, Consultant
Yalda Nikoomanesh
is an independent consultant providing non-profits with expertise and technical assistance in fundraising, development
and capacity building. Current projects include working with the Children’s Museum of Manhattan to help build
capacity for a new community-based children’s obesity initiative, and working with Older Adults Technology Services
to help raise funds and develop their capacity to enhance the lives of seniors through community based technology initiatives. From 2003-2007, Yalda was the Director of Development for MOUSE (www.mouse.org), a New York City-based non profit whose mission is to create technology-based opportunities that motivate underserved students to succeed in today’s information society. At MOUSE, Yalda was responsible for overseeing the fundraising and development activities to support an education and technology non-profit organization with an average annual budget of $1.5 million dollars— expanding and diversifying the funding of the organization across the government, foundation, corporate and individual giving sectors. At MOUSE, Yalda was part of the senior leadership team responsible for developing and implementing a three-year strategic planning process to build the capacity of MOUSE’s flagship program to expand from a local technology support program operating in 13 public schools in NYC, to a national model supporting the development of 21st century skills for public school students. Prior to MOUSE, Yalda was the Program Manager for Interactive Media for Children at the Markle Foundation, where she helped the Foundation launch an ambitious three-year plan to invest in research and new educational technologies to support children’s learning and development. Yalda began her work in the non-profit sector conducting research on new media for a communications policy group, the Center for Media Education, in Washington D.C.
Jennifer Sugg, Consultant Jennifer Sugg is a student at the The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology. Her academic interests pertain to the study of historical and
social transformations of urban youth cultures in the United States. Sugg has years of experience working with women
and youth in New York City, including positions held with the non-profit organizations, Safe Horizon and the Lower East Side
Girls Club. Sugg also has years of experience conducting applied anthropological research at the Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health, Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies where she has interviewed and facilitated
focus groups with hundreds of men and women residing in the NYC shelter system. |
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