Eric Graig

Current

Managing Director at Usable Knowledge, LLC

Past

Adjunct Professor at Queens College - City University of New York
Director of Research and Evaluation at Beacon of Hope House

Education

City University of New York Graduate Center

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Industry

Non-Profit Organization Management

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Eric Graig’s Summary

My firm, Usable Knowledge provides program evaluation and consulting services to organizations that need to understand how their work impacts those they serve. We help answer questions such as:

* Are we getting the results we want?
* What factors contribute the most to success?
* What kinds of changes can we make in order to improve our performance?
* How are we perceived by those we work with?
* What kinds of data do we need to describe our work to funders?

What distinguishes us is a belief that program evaluation is only successful when it creates usable knowledge. For us, this means knowledge that can be deployed to improve a program and help it grow.

Eric Graig’s Specialties:

We help grant makers and the organizations they support better understand how their work affects those they aim to serve. Borrowing from both program evaluation and management consulting, our approach is collaborative, data driven and action oriented. In every project we undertake, we aim to understand not only how a program functions but also the context within which it works. This enables us to present findings and make recommendations that are sensitive to clients' real world situation.

Eric Graig’s Experience

Managing Director

Usable Knowledge, LLC

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

December 2001 — Present (8 years )
Adjunct Professor

Queens College - City University of New York

(Higher Education industry)

January 1995 — August 2002 (7 years 8 months)

Taught in the Graduate Program in Applied Sociology. Courses included:

-Program Evaluation
-Writing for the Social Sciences
-Survey Research Methods
Director of Research and Evaluation

Beacon of Hope House

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

January 1999 — December 2001 (3 years )

Overall responsibility for all research and evaluation at this $9 million per year mental health agency. Developed and implemented a wide range of research studies designed to improve program outcomes, document program effectiveness and contribute to the residential treatment field more generally.