Community-based arts programs do so much more than build creative skills.
They create social connection, wellbeing, resiliency, a plethora of social emotional learning skills, and provide healthy coping skills for stress, grief, and trauma.
And academic and clinical research back that up with rigorous research.
You’ve seen these changes in people participating in your programs. But now you’re being asked to “prove it” in ways that are not realistic for your organization.
Unfortunately, many boards and funders often expect evidence that looks like those published academic studies.
Outcome Studio is here to change that.
Co-founded by artist and program evaluator Kelly Feltault, PhD and arts nonprofit strategist Hannah Jacobson Blumenfeld, Outcome Studio helps arts and health, and other cultural organizations translate what they know—from lived experience and artistic practice—into the models and evidence funders need to see.
DataStory Workshops
12-week learning cohorts
DataStory Workshops
Seasonal learning cohorts for nonprofits, grantee cohorts, and creative collectives to build practical evaluation skills
Toolkits and Workbooks
Done-with-you tools to translate your observed stories of change into theories of change, logic models, evaluation plans, and culturally relevant data collection tools
Community and Peer Learning
A growing community of practice to support reflection, peer exchange, and implementation
1:1 Coaching and Live Events
Live events, office hours, and group discussions paired with asynchronous videos create a transformational learning experience where you are supported.
We’re getting invited to apply for grants now.
I have always been frustrated and intimidated by evaluation—logic models, metrics and data—but Kelly and Hannah started with what we knew and then made it so easy and understandable—and feasible. Best part is they turned my language into something my funders and partners outside the arts understand. We’re getting invited to apply for grants now.”
- Creative Forces grantee
FOR NONPROFITS
Turn your impact into evidence — on your own terms.
JAN'26
Outcome Studio offers guided learning cohorts designed for small to medium nonprofits, creative collectives, and cultural organizations working at the edges of systems. You’ll join a seasonal cohort of nonprofit professional for a 12-week, interactive, supportive evaluation journey that begins with your lived and artistic knowledge—not clinical models or academic methods.
What you’ll learn:
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How to translate the observed and storied changes you see in your participants into outcomes funders recognize
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How to turn your outcomes into a theory of change and logic model
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How to design an evaluation plan and collect culturally responsive data to measure those outcomes
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How to tell funder-ready data stories—without losing the soul of your work
What you’ll get:
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A completed theory of change and logic model that communicates your value to funders, helps you write better grants, and even helps you onboard new staff.
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A completed evaluation plan and data collection instruments streamlined into your existing systems without over burdening staff (oh, and we can help you make those systems more efficient).
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A stakeholder analysis and a strategic communication plan targeting your program’s stakeholders that centers you impact. Improve your communication with community leaders, funders and new donors.
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Credible data that tells your story and mad skills in monitoring, evaluation, and learning for program staff.
What makes us different:
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A human-centered framework rooted in equity and practice
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Live workshops, labs, and peer exchanges, combined with pre-recorded learning modules
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Templates and tools you can actually use
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A creative, supportive community of peers who get it
Next cohort opens January 2026
Get early access + free resources
FOR FUNDER-SPONSORED COHORTS
You want meaningful data. We help you build it—without burning out your grantees.
Outcome Studio’s sponsored cohort model helps funders support grantees with practical, culturally responsive evaluation capacity building. We do the heavy lifting so your grantees gain skills, confidence, and credibility—while you gain better data, shared language, and collective outcome insights.
What we hear from funders:
“Our grantees struggle with evaluation.”
“We want impact data—but we don’t want to be extractive.”
“We know evaluation capacity is a need, but we don’t know where to start.”
That’s where we come in.
What our sponsored cohort model delivers:
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A 12-week interactive, online learning journey with a live community of practice, events, coaching, labs, and peer learning
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Done with them tools like theories of change, logic models, and data collection plans with instruments
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A live kickoff and wrap-up, deliverables, engagement tracking, and progress reports
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Optional coaching subscriptions for long-term support throughout the grant
Interested in sponsoring your grantees?
Book a Sponsored Cohort Coffee Chat!
Book a 30-minute consultation with Kelly and Hannah to learn more about our DataStory Workshops for sponsored cohorts of grantees.
Rooted in Practice. Built for Equity.
Our Framework: Ways of Knowing
Outcome Studio is grounded in a framework that honors different ways of knowing: experiential, artistic, generalized and practical knowledge. We help participants move from stories to strategies—from knowing what works to showing what works.
Whether you’re a funder ready to invest in data equity or a nonprofit ready to build your evaluation fluency—Outcome Studio meets you where you are and helps you move with clarity, confidence, and care.
Outcome Studio draws on decades of experience working in the arts. Our Ways of Knowing framework starts with what nonprofits already know— the stories and observations of change from your own experience about how your program impacts participants. We take those observations and help you translate them into impacts funders recognize and then the models and evidence that resonates with funders while still reflecting your values.
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Translate your impact into evidence—without sacrificing what makes your work human.
Join our email list and select one of our free mini courses or toolkits to get you started and be the first to know when the next DataStory cohort starts.