Who We Are
Torres Consulting Group is a woman-owned research, evaluation, and management consulting firm.
Our mission is to engage programs and organizations in feedback-based learning that will help them succeed.
We take a distinctive learning approach to a broad range of research, evaluation, and capacity-building services, including:
- program evaluation
- designing evaluation systems for organizations
- professional development workshops on research and evaluation topics
- market analysis for educational and social service programs
- customized research and evaluation services
Torres Consulting Group was founded in 1992 by its principal, Rosalie T. Torres, Ph.D. She has been an evaluation practitioner and scholar since 1978. View Publications
Among our research and evaluation clients are:
University of Puerto Rico
University of California at Riverside
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Lesley University's Program Evaluation and Research Group
Utah State University’s NSF (National Science Foundation)-funded evaluation capacity building project
James Irvine Foundation
David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Colorado Springs School District
USDA Forest Service and National Forest Foundation
Lea County, NM DWI Planning Council
J. F. Maddox Foundation
Holland Public Schools, Holland, MI
Allegan Public Schools, Allegan, MI
Our professional development workshop clients include:
American Evaluation Association
Arkansas Evaluation Center
University of Puerto Rico
The California Wellness Foundation
U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Eastern Management Development Center
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Society for Community Research and Action
Michigan Association of Evaluators
Fielding Graduate Institute
Association for the Study and Development of Community
Current and Upcoming Events
Torres Consulting Group has been awarded a three-year (2006-2009) NSF grant to conduct research on logic model use in the design, implementation, and evaluation of complex, multi-year educational reform systems.
Recent Past Events
Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting Workshop (two-day) at the 2008 Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association in Denver, November 3-4
Building an Evaluation System For Your Organization Workshop at the
2008 Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association in Denver,
November 5
Communication of Evaluation Activities and Findings to Maximize Learning Workshop for grantees of the California Wellness Foundation in San Francisco on May 13, 2008
Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting; Logic Models for Program Planning and Evaluation Mini-Workshops for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Eastern Management Development Center in Shepherdstown, WV, June 4, 2008
Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting Workshops (half-day) at the American Evaluation Association/Centers For Disease Control Summer Evaluation Institute in Atlanta, June 23-24, 2008
Interviewing Skills Workshop at the Summer Evaluation Institute for the Arkansas Evaluation Center/Arkansas Group of Evaluators in Pine Bluff, July 10-11, 2008
Grant Proposal Writing Workshop for the faculty of the University of Puerto Rico-Cayey on April 29, 2008
Challenges and Issues: What Do We Know About the Role of Evaluation in Organizational Learning? Where do we go from here? Think Tank at the Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association in Baltimore, November 2007
Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting Workshop at the Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association in Baltimore, November 2007
Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting Workshop at the American Evaluation Association/Centers for Disease Control Summer Institute in Atlanta, June 2007
Communicating and Reporting Research and Evaluation Processes and Results Workshop at the Eleventh Bi-annual Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action, June 2007
Measuring & Communicating Effectiveness: What Difference Do Nonprofits Make? Fishbowl discussion sponsored by the World Bank Group and the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington, January 2007