Equitable evaluation, capacity building, and fair and responsible technology. Our programs equip communities, leaders, and institutions to transform lived experience into credible evidence and collective power.
We train and equip organizations to lead evaluation that surfaces lived experience as credible evidence, ready to shift policy, funding, and institutional decisions.
Free data support
Our flagship 12-step community-led evaluation framework, delivered as a free engagement that helps organizations transform lived experience into action plans, impact metrics, and advocacy-ready evidence.
Apply todayPathway for community-based researchers
Lead discussions, gather insights, and support organizations using the Measure CARE Model™. Ideal for those with a background in DEI, communication, and project management.
Apply todayFor disruptive changemakers
An advanced track for organizers, executives, and movement leaders who want to use the CARE Model™ to interrogate systems of power and build community-generated evidence.
University partnership
A community-research partnership equipping the next generation of Data Activists through hands-on, justice-centered research projects.
Hire our team
End-to-end equity-focused program evaluation, mixed-methods design, qualitative voice with quantitative rigor, delivered by our trained Data Activists.
Hire us to evaluateSustainable movements require sustainable leaders. Through leadership development, AI literacy, advocacy training, and facilitated dialogue, we turn knowledge into collective action while caring for the people doing the work.
Leadership sustainability
A peer-learning and leadership development initiative for nonprofit executives navigating complexity, transition, and systems change. Centered in trust, reflection, wellness, and collective strategy. Carried forward by Measure in honor of Mission Capital's legacy.
Micro AI literacy
Short, accessible trainings that demystify AI for community members, organizers, and nonprofit teams, building the language and confidence to interrogate emerging technology.
Protecting Black girls
Training and dialogue series that elevate data on adultification bias and equip educators, social workers, and institutions to interrupt harm against Black girls.
Explore the programSix-week series
A six-week series helping community-based organizations build the financial literacy, evidence, and storytelling needed to attract sustainable funding.
Convenings
Facilitated convenings where residents, leaders, and partners come together to interpret data, share lived experience, and shape collective advocacy.
Explore the programData without community is distortion. Technology without interrogation is dangerous. Through Communities in the Loop and CARE-informed AI governance, we ensure impacted residents have real power over the systems being built around them.
Signature initiative
Our flagship civic technology initiative, positioning residents as interrogators, co-designers, and decision-shapers of AI and emerging tech, through facilitated dialogue, community-led research, AI literacy, and public convenings.
Applied governance
A structured methodology for applying the CARE Model™ to AI systems, surfacing harm, embedding accountability, and centering community voice in technology governance.
Engagement platform
A community engagement and impact platform supporting real-time reporting, impact storytelling, partnership building, and AI-supported learning for organizations and movements.
Join todayMeasure is a capacity-building nonprofit. Through our Free Data Support program, we deliver the full CARE Model™ evaluation to grassroots organizations at no cost, transforming lived experience into advocacy-ready evidence and strengthening the infrastructure of Black, Brown, and frontline-led movements.
Apply for Free Data SupportCommunity partners
25+ grassroots organizations supported
Institutional partners
Trusted by cities, museums, and universities
…and many more partners across Texas and beyond.
Communities most impacted by AI are too often the last in the room. Measure flips that, training residents to interrogate algorithms, shape governance, and build AI literacy as a civic right.
Calling on foundations and technology companies: help us scale community-led AI accountability. Let's talk about partnership.
Schedule a meetingDownload funder one-pager (PDF)Interrogating AI
Residents are positioned as interrogators and co-designers of AI, not end users. Through facilitated dialogue, lived-experience research, and public convenings, we surface harm and embed accountability into the systems being built around our communities.
Applied governance
We apply the 12-step Measure CARE Model™ to AI tools, vendors, and policies, generating community-validated evidence that funders, agencies, and developers can act on.
AI literacy in community
Short, accessible, plain-language trainings that demystify AI for residents, organizers, and nonprofit teams, building the vocabulary and confidence to question emerging technology.
