Julia Gittleman, PhD Evaluation Design, Performance Measurement & Using Data to Tell Your Story

Julia and Tom co-founded MGA Consultants in 1999. They have each spent nearly forty years serving the nonprofit sector.

Julia has developed experience and expertise helping organizations design and implement program evaluation and performance measurement systems, with a particular focus on data equity – building organizations’ capacity to sustain and use that work themselves.

She has worked with learning networks, foundations, and a broad span of organizations including youth development, out-of-school time, the arts and K–12 education (see our past and current clients).

For decades she conducted evaluations herself, and worked directly with clients to develop and improve programs, and to build better management and evaluation systems. She helped clients develop clear, guiding Theory of Change models and practical, actionable evaluation tools and systems.

Today, Julia focuses her work on supporting learning networks, funders and collaboratives, as well as a small number of individual organizations. She helps her clients improve their performance measurement and evaluation design, and use data to effectively tell their story.

Before founding MGA, Julia began her career as a caseworker, then spent more than a decade designing and managing human service programs. At Crittenton Hastings House in Boston (now Empath, formerly the Crittenton Women’s Union), she held a number of positions over eleven years, ultimately as Chief Program Officer and Vice President of Programs.

Julia graduated from the University of Michigan in 1984 and received a doctorate in social policy from the Heller School at Brandeis University in 2003.

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