November 2025
For nearly 40 years, the independently funded Providence Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CORE) has supported a wide range of community and health-related organizations and programs with research, data and other insights.
Data for Change, launched by CORE in 2021 in partnership with Providence Community Health Investment, connects CORE’s data coaches with local nonprofit partners. The goal of the program is to empower communities with data. Since launching, the program has partnered with 30 Oregon-based nonprofits.
“You need to collect data to understand a program and its impact. You can then tell a story with that data,” says Keri Vartanian, senior director of research at CORE.
Above: Caregivers gather at Providence Office Park for the annual CORE data summit in June.
One of the participating organizations, Rose Haven, serves people experiencing homelessness. When the need to start a new mental health program arose, Rose Haven worked with CORE to access the tools they needed to best serve their community.
CORE worked with Rose Haven to develop a model to track program outcomes and create data collection tools, including satisfaction surveys and a template to track data.
“There is so much to learn from data, and this information can advance organizations and their work and help the people they serve,” Keri says.
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- For more information about the program, visit the CORE website.
- For a deep dive into more projects, see CORE’s blog stream.
- See the original article on Catholic Health World.
