Black Walnut Consulting

evaluations should be useful to the people that matter the most: on the ground staff and the people and communities they serve. my goal is that by the end of our work together, you and your team will feel more empowered in the evaluation process and approach your work as evaluative thinkers, strategically using data to inform programmatic improvements, make decisions, secure funding, and grow. principal and founder dara murray has worked as an evaluator for mission-driven organizations for over a decade, supporting nonprofits and foundations through dynamic training and quantitative and qualitative data analysis that has resulted in organizations securing millions of dollars in funding to scale regionally and nationally and improve their processes and outcomes along the way. building from her experience as a national trainer, dara has helped 200+ teams promote a unified culture of reflection, learning, and data-informed decision making. in addition to supervising the program evaluat