REFLECTIONS
Read what some of our past and present clients are saying about our work.
Recent Project & Organizational Directors
2026
“Thanks for making the evaluations informative and relevant! We are grateful for the support, focus, and excellent advice and feedback.”
2024
“We are very fortunate to have you as our external evaluator on this project. You allow a lot of room for growth and improvement in a gentle and objective way.”
2022
“You always have our best interests in mind, and we look forward to working with you for many years to come.”
2020
“Judy is thorough and detail oriented, while understanding the larger goals of the project. Her immediate feedback helps us improve activities in real time and she offers solid suggestions based on evaluation data she is collecting.”
2025
"Thank you so much for all your work, Judy. It will strengthen our grantmaking efforts and make life better for kids and families in Maine."
2023
"This is a terrific report! Thanks for all the data and breaking it down meaningfully. Super helpful.”
2021
“Thank you for allowing us to have so much time to compile the data. We really appreciate your flexibility and know that it can create challenges on your end. We really appreciate all that you’ve done throughout this grant cycle to help us be the best we can be.”
“I can’t thank you enough for helping guide the questions and work to get the information we need. This report is so amazing, and I am already thinking about how we can use this information going forward! Thank you for your patience, incredible comprehension of a program you knew nothing about, and ability to create a meaningful evaluation!”
Training and Technical Assistance Provider
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"We value Judy so much. She is an incredible colleague. We were singing your praises while we reviewed your logic model feedback yesterday. We are so thankful for your partnership and how thorough you are."
-Principal Investigators
“I’ll never forget the meeting when the project and its partners were trying to figure out a new way to deliver TA. It was Judy who galvanized the entire team by setting our foundation in place by sharing the milestones. This helped everybody think clearly about what the work was going to look like. It set the team onto a very positive, forward-looking path.”
-Co-Project Director
“I want to thank you for mentioning ‘presentation engagement.’ This is an
area that we were not thinking about for these presentations but will now pay some attention to. Thanks for
always seeing our work with a critical lens.
It makes our work better.”
-Service Area Lead
“I just wanted to reach out to you to let you know how grateful I am for you at our meetings. With me being new, you always take extra effort to make sure I know what we are talking about and for that, I have much appreciation.”
–Technical Assistance Specialist
“Users genuinely find the tool to be useful and helpful. I thought you might appreciate this update given all the great work you did developing the tool.”
– Founding Partner of a research and evaluation agency
"I really appreciate your thoughtful contribution to the effort. You always provide excellent guidance that helps us think about how our work connects to the project’s major goals."
Project Partner, Professor Emerita, and President of a research company
“Your evaluation plan and the thoughtful application of feedback was instrumental to the outcomes."
Director of Technical Assistance
“True North Evaluation’s reports are clear and concise, with meaningful findings right up front. You present data in a direct, impactful way that makes the evaluation findings easy to understand and the lessons easy to apply to current and future projects.”
Project Manager and Senior Researcher
“Wow!! What a nicely done report Judy. I can certainly see why you were the very best person not only to manage the ongoing project and keep us on track...but also to take tons of information and organize it into a thoughtful and nicely flowing report.”
Former Executive VP of Child Welfare service agencies