Everything on this site, in one place.

What we do: five practices, the Academy, and two services aimed at small organizations.

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  All services

  Five practices you can hire separately or in sequence: training and capacity building, consulting and advisory, EDIA, accessibility audits,…

• method.html

  The CometX Method

  Scope, Evidence, Build, Transfer — the four steps every engagement runs through, published under CC BY 4.0 so anyone can use them.

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  Training and capacity building

  Workshops, institutes, cohort programs, and train-the-trainer delivery in research methods, evaluation, knowledge mobilization, facilitation,…

• academy.html

  CometX Academy

  Free learning materials, courses in development with associations and SMEs, and a route to request training.

• consulting.html

  Consulting and advisory

  Evaluation design, rapid evidence reviews, strategy and program design, knowledge mobilization plans, and community engagement, on fixed-fee…

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  EDIA and women's leadership

  Equity assessments, inclusive hiring and promotion systems, EDIA strategy, bias-interrupting training, and sponsorship programs advancing…

• accessibility.html

  Accessibility and audits

  WCAG 2.2 and AODA conformance audits, document remediation, accessible procurement, multi-year accessibility plans, and staff training.

• research.html

  Research and knowledge mobilization

  Applied research on how evidence travels, plus open frameworks, toolkits, and briefs published free under Creative Commons.

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  Research ethics review

  Independent, proportionate ethics review for community organizations with no access to a research ethics board. Two weeks, written feedback,…

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  Evaluation office hours

  Forty-five free minutes with an evaluator, monthly, for small non-profits and community organizations. No pitch, no follow-up sales call.

• digital-support.html

  1,000 Hours digital support

  A commitment of 1,000 hours of free web development, social presence and creative work in 2027, built accessible and handed over. Open to any organization; assessed on need.

Profiles of businesses of every size and how they make a difference where they are.

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  The programme

  Built here. Building here. How businesses of every size make a difference where they are, in their own words. Nominate a business.

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  Sector series

  Six businesses from one sector, then a short synthesis of what they had in common.

• built-here/kanata-business-drivers.html

  Kanata Business Drivers

  The first profile: a technology and training firm that designs itself to be leavable.

• built-here.html#nominate

  Nominate a business

  Your own or one you admire. No fee, and you approve the piece before publication.

Every form on the site, and where it goes.

All five reach contact@cometx.ca. What each one collects and how long it is kept is set out in the privacy policy.

• Copies

  Request a copy

  Any publication, in any format, free and with no justification required.

• Updates

  Register

  The research newsletter, about once a month. Optional — nothing is gated behind it.

• Nominations

  Built Here nomination

  Put a business forward. No fee, and nobody is written about without agreeing first.

• Associates

  Work with us

  Associate work, peer review, or a supervised student placement.

• Clinics

  Evaluation office hours

  Forty-five free minutes with an evaluator, monthly.

• Proposals

  Request a proposal

  Tell us what you are trying to change and we will say whether we are the right fit.

Les pages françaises.

All 24 French pages are listed below. Use the EN / FR switch at the top of any page to move between languages. The research reports themselves are published in English; any of them can be supplied in French on request, free of charge.