ABOUT COYNE AND ASSOCIATES LTD.
Our team is a highly skilled, socially minded, and energetic group of consultants who bring together diverse skills in participatory research and planning. Our collective practice has focused for many years on various aspects of community work with vulnerable populations, particularly people who are homeless, First Nations, street involved youth, single parents, visible minorities, and people with chronic illness.
Coyne and Associates is the only consulting group in British Columbia fully trained and experienced in using the Splash and Ripple approach to outcome based planning and management. In doing so, we work with the consulting firm that originally developed the method for international development applications, Calgary-based Plan:Net Ltd, to ensure quality control and an ongoing learning and development of the approach.
Coyne and Associates has been in operation since 1995 and, in that time, has developed a reputation for responsive, participatory, and meaningful evaluation. Our speciality is in making diverse communities comfortable with evaluation and in recognizing the integrated nature of community work. We strive for recognition of the values that make up who we are as Vancouverites: inclusion, creativity, social justice, diversity and environmental sustainability.
Over the years, we have developed strong and sustained relationships with the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Coastal Health, both as evaluators and outcome management trainers. Community organizations regularly call on us to support planning and evaluation of organizational direction or specific programs. We are currently engaged with the Vancouver Foundation in an evaluation of the Neighbourhood Small Grants Program, Vancouver Coastal Health for an evaluation of a chronic disease pilot project with Aboriginal communities, a community health promotion program evaluation in Southern Alberta, the Association of Neighbourhood Houses in a organizational review, and with a consortium of immigrant serving organizations to evaluate a community capacity building process in British Columbia.