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Fractional Research Partner
Get senior-level research support without the overhead of a full-time hire. RAI Partners serves as an embedded, on-demand research partner — conducting background research, policy scans, and data analysis to help your organization make evidence-based decisions. Our team has led targeted literature scans, focused and comprehensive evidence reviews, mixed methods evaluations and predictive analytics. Our research has informed course placement policies in secondary and postsecondary education, informed indicator selection for program monitoring and for high-stakes accountability. As your partner, we bring rigor and relevance to your organization's specific questions, whether you need a one-time analysis or ongoing support.
Grant & Project Support
From proposal strategy through final reporting, RAI Partners provides full-lifecycle grant support so your team can focus on delivering programs, not managing paperwork. We've led strategy and proposal development resulting in more than $60M in new funding streams over six years for a large research organization, and have supported small non-profit organizations in smaller opportunities, including those under $50K. We bring that same experience to project management, data collection, and compliance reporting once funding is secured.
Policy & Program Evaluation
Is your program or policy achieving its goals? RAI Partners collaborates to design and deliver evaluations that answer that question with methodological rigor and practical, decision-ready findings. With expertise qualitative and quantitative methods our team offers end-to-end services that meet your goals. We can start from creating objectives, your logic model and measurement plans, and the evaluation questions and design, or use your existing plans to carry out the evaluation, collect data, complete the analysis, prepare results, appropriately interpret findings, and help you accurately communicate with your audiences. Throughout, we ensure methodological alignment, while accounting for practical factors such as timelines and budget.
Strategic Planning
As a critical friend and objective partner, RAI Partners facilitates strategic planning that aligns your organization's mission with actionable, achievable goals. We combine deep knowledge of the education landscape — from early learning through postsecondary and into the workforce — with hands-on facilitation, so the roadmap we help you build fits your team's capacity and timelines.
Capacity Building
Lasting improvement requires more than a one-time fix — it requires the internal skills, data systems, and processes to sustain progress after an engagement ends. RAI Partners works alongside your team to build that capacity, so continuous improvement becomes part of how your organization operates, not something that depends on an outside consultant.
