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. 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
Having conducted evaluation
research in the NYC public schools for the past 10 years and having taught for 12 years previously, Courtenay brings extensive
experience 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
- American Evaluation Association (AEA) Conference: "At the Intersection
of Policy and Practice in Multisite Evaluation: Perspectives From Three Different Fields": Denver, CO, November 6, 2008;
presenter.
- National After School Association Conference (NAA):
“Confronting Challenges While Building Effective OST Programs”: Phoenix, AZ, March 22, 2007; presenter.
- National Education & Computing Conference (NECC): “Empowering Youth and Providing
Support: Evaluation Findings from Youth Technical Support Programs”: San Diego, CA, July 5, 2006; organizer, presenter.
- National Education & Computing Conference (NECC): “e-learning Tools: If You Build
Them, Will They Learn?”: Philadelphia, PA, June 29, 2005; presenter.
- National
Education & Computing Conference (NECC): “A Student Conversation: Technology in Urban Public Schools”: Philadelphia,
PA, June 27, 2005; organizer, presenter.
- New York State Association
for Computers (NYSCATE) Conference: Learning without Boundaries, Albany NY, November 23, 2003: presenter.
- National Community Technology Center Programs Conference, CTCs Moving Forward: Programming
for Digital Communities, February 26, 2001, New York, NY: organizer.
- New
York State Association for Computers (NYSCATE) Regional Conference, March 4, 2000, New York: presenter.
Contact Us
Carmody Consulting • Evaluation Services
243
East 77th Street, Suite 5b
New York, NY 10075
cc@carmodyconsulting.net
Phone: 917.538.1016
Fax:
646.688.5201
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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, ConsultantJennifer 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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