Your accountabilitypartner for success

PEARS helps mission-driven organizations plan, track, evaluate, and report on community engagement work in one connected system. Built for complex programs, partnerships, and reporting requirements, PEARS turns day-to-day activities into clear evidence of reach, outcomes, and impact.

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Trusted by leading institutions:

  • College of Muscogee Nation Extension logo
  • University of Delaware Cooperative Extension logo
  • NDSU Extension logo
  • University of New Hampshire Extension logo
  • Virginia Cooperative Extension logo
  • University of Missouri Extension logo
  • University of Vermont Extension logo

Evaluation, simplified

Take the guesswork out of evaluation! Our system acts as your built-in evaluation ex-PEARt. Let PEARS be your guide, simplifying the evaluation process from plan to report.

  • Make a Plan

    Assess your environment, plan activities, and establish metrics to measure your success.

  • Engage

    Execute your plan. Track & evaluate your activities, engagements, partnerships, and much more.

  • Analyze & Report

    Analyze results, report to stakeholders, and create a culture of continuous improvement.

Extension

Maximize your reach
& impact

Create action plans, register participants, and evaluate outcomes. PEARS is your all-in-one Extension solution!

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Higher Education

Track academic & community engagement

PEARS is your hub for tracking and evaluating connections with the community. From partnerships to events and a built-in CRM, PEARS can amplify your community impact.

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Healthy Communities

Demonstrate your
nutrition impacts

Track nutrition education impacts in real time and make reporting to stakeholders as easy as clicking a button.

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Powerful add-ons to boost efficiency

Branch out with our events and data analysis add-ons to extend PEARS' capabilities.

  • An event page in the PEARS events catalog

    Includes the ability to create and manage events with custom-built registration forms, a public-facing events catalog with a user-friendly interface for community members to register for your events with ease, and administrative features to manage forms, events, users, participants, and more!

    Event Registrations

  • A SQL query against the PEARS Data Mart

    A cloud-hosted relational database of your organization’s most recent PEARS data. Updated nightly, the Data Mart extracts and transforms your data into an easy-to-use, understandable format that is also compatible with tools like Tableau and PowerBI. This add-on includes ongoing updates, support, and technical assistance.

    Data Mart

Stories that
inspire

Explore real-world success stories from our partners and discover how PEARS has transformed monitoring and evaluation processes for organizations just like yours.

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    If you're looking for a system to create plans of work that are based in logic and looking for a way to evaluate those plans and track the things you do to tell your story, you won't find a better system than PEARS.

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    This system is robust, sophisticated, and designed from the ground up to be an actual Extension program.

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    PEARS is improving every year, it's always working to meet our needs more than any in-house system you could ever create, and it makes a system that reflects what Extension should be doing.

  • UVM case study: How UVM Extension Found a Perfect Fit with PEARS (PDF)
  • UNL case study: Transforming Program Evaluation and Storytelling with PEARS (PDF)
  • MSU case study: Michigan State University Extension's Transformation Through PEARS (PDF)

Ready to harvest your potential?

No sales gimmicks - just solutions! Schedule a time to chat with our evaluation expert about your specific evaluation needs or book a PEARS-onalized demo today. Our team is here to help and will only recommend PEARS if it will truly make your work easier.

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