About Us

InSites, a Colorado-based nonprofit organization, promotes learning, growth, and change through inquiry and collaboration. We help people build relationships, and change social systems based on results, values, and attention to a desired and sustainable, fair future for all.

 

What We Do

We help people build relationships, and change social systems based on results, values, and attention to a desired and sustainable, fair future.

We work primarily in the fields of education, social services, health, community development, and environment. We help service providers, administrators, policymakers, community leaders, and change agents make decisions based on results, values, and attention to a desired future. We conduct evaluations and research projects. We provide resource materials; facilitate communities of practice and networks to build systems-oriented inquiry practices; provide individual consultations; make presentations for large and small groups; and lead seminars. InSites has a small staff and carries out its work through strategic engagement with consultants, networks, and partner organizations.

InSites has helped many local, state, regional, and national foundations, nonprofits, schools, colleges, universities, private businesses, and community groups strengthen their programs, policies, and practices to achieve greater results.

 

How We Work

InSites provides consultation on evaluation and other inquiry, learning, and change approaches; builds learning networks and communities of practice; and provides resource materials that draw on multiple systems theories.

InSites enriches clients’ inquiry, learning, and change. We

  • Care about what matters to those we serve;
  • Understand the processes of shifting long standing ways of thinking and acting;
  • Value and respect multiple cultural perspectives;
  • Attend to the intersection of economic, environmental, and social well-being specific to a given situation;
  • Think and design inquiries creatively with a sustainable, equitable future for all in mind;
  • Build learning networks and communities of practice;
  • Take a systems orientation and draw on theories based on complex adaptive systems;
  • Link theory and practice;
  • Meet timelines and budgets; and
  • Follow high professional standards.

 

What We Know

InSites makes use of its extensive theoretical, yet deeply practical, understanding of evaluation and its link to supporting social, environmental, and economic well-being. InSites uses its expertise related to:

  • Systems theory and practical application to evaluation;
  • How to achieve results;
  • Principles of learning organizations and communities;
  • The intersection of economic, environmental, and social well-being;
  • Adult learning;
  • How complex organizations and systems work;
  • How to conduct qualitative and quantitative research/evaluation;
  • Innovative evaluation, research, and planning strategies; and
  • Human systems dynamics and complex adaptive systems.

 

 

 

 

 

Our Mission

InSites, a Colorado-based nonprofit organization, promotes learning, growth, and change through inquiry and collaboration. We help people build relationships, and change social systems based on results, values, and attention to a desired and sustainable, fair future for all.

 

Contact us!

Address: 1307 Sanford Drive,
Fort Collins, CO 80526
Phone: 970-226-1003 Email: Beverly Parsons | bparsons@insites.org

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