The Joel Fund
Overview
The Joel Fund aims to reconnect veterans to life at home. They use the power of community to engage, educate, and encourage veterans and their families.
They do this through through programs focused on community and resiliency, including offering community-focused art classes to support the emotional wellbeing of veterans, creating warm referrals between veterans and resources throughout North Carolina, and building stability in the lives of veterans and their families after experiencing homelessness or crisis.
Brooke Dickhart, Executive Director —
“[They’ve been] helping us gather relevant data… I loved that they could take our existing survey, talk to us about what in that was most important to us, and then figure out how to ask those questions in a meaningful way.”
Results
Through our work together, The Joel Fund:
Can measure and communicate how their programs work together to holistically support veterans and their families.
Better understand how their partnerships with other community-based organizations are critical to supporting veterans and their families in North Carolina.
Collects data from veterans and their families using fun and creative methods, helping them gather participant experiences and continuously improve programming.
Gathered veterans, community partners, and staff to engage with data and generate solutions to challenges.
Built their skills in evaluation through collaborative, participatory sessions
