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Eureka Facts will soon be working with the nationally recognized consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, as a subcontractor for a Professional Social Science Services contract with The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Eureka Facts is pleased to be a member of a team that will provide services in support of critical coastal conservation and management efforts such as coastal community and ecosystem assessments, ecosystem-based management initiatives, human use mapping, regional ocean governance initiatives, estuarine and watershed analyses, hazards and community resilience assessments, risk behavior/communication program development and  climate change adaptation and coastal and ocean planning and ecosystem conservation efforts.

Work on this contract draws from EurekaFacts previous work and considerable experience with agencies and organizations in the field.

The State of Maryland values the involvement of minority-owned business in government contracting. For this reason the Maryland Minority Business Enterprise program ensures that outstanding MBE’s have the opportunity to participate in contracting opportunities.

Thanks to programs like this and Eureka Facts’ exceptional track record, EurekaFacts has been selected to team with Jacobs Engineering Group Inc, one of the state’s largest engineering firms, to provide support to the state of Maryland through two major contracts.

One includes conducting market research and analysis as part of the Maryland Transportation Authority’s Traffic and Revenue Forecast Services Program while the other will support Jacobs Engineering’s work on its on-going contract with the Maryland Transit Administration for Policy, Business and Transit Management Services. Both projects will be instrumental in supporting the State of Maryland’s transportation strategic planning efforts. 

Eureka Facts welcomes these two new contracting opportunities. As a Minority Business Enterprise and a participant in the US SBA 8(a) program, Eureka Facts is proud to provide ongoing support for the market research services required under these contracts.

There is mounting evidence of shortages of adequate number of physicians in many highly specialized medical fields. To better understand the interests, challenges and career-related intentions of young physicians practicing within a highly specialized medical field, Eureka facts recently completed a study for a major national medical association. 

Through a series of In-depth interviews and online surveys with four key audiences segments, including fellows, foreign medical graduates, women, and young practitioners, Eureka Facts provided the association with an in-depth profile of the practice patterns of their youngest membership segment. The study examined issues such as their intentions to stay in the field, expectations regarding compensation and how work-life issues impact young practitioners’ current and future career-related decisions. 

Insights on these and other key professional characteristics shared by physicians starting their careers in this highly specialized field provided the association with actionable insights on how to better serve this member group’s current and future professional needs.

U. S. Census Bureau Research and Development (R&D) 2014Eureka Facts has again been included as a subcontractor in a major research project for the US Census Bureau. Back in June of this year, Eureka Facts worked as part of a team of companies to help revise several questions for the American Community Survey (ACS). We completed this study by successfully recruiting and interviewing volunteers who participated in in-depth cognitive interviews throughout Maryland, Virginia, DC and Colorado.  Recruitment and cognitive interviewing was done in both Spanish and English.

Supporting the developent of a nonprofit’s growth strategic plan, EurekaFacts conducted geomarketing analysis that identifies high-potential target geographies for a growing international professional society. In the process, EurekaFacts combined survey data, demographic information and the society’s transactional data in order to identify patterns, presence, product mix by geography throughout the globe. The dual model uses high-precision datamodeling in the United States where the organization has strongest presence, as well as city and country level analysis for key areas including the EU and the Asia-Pacific region.

Assisting in strategic market planning by world geography became an easier and less risky endeavor when EurekaFacts prepared thematic maps that transform the society’s database into a powerful decision-making tool. The interactive map outputs summary charts, statistics, and tables embedded in zoomable maps for each geography. Among the sets of used measures are market presence, growth trends, and membership. Also examined were summary profiles of service usage by country, grouping publication purchases, certification preparation registration, event attendance, online self-paced education registration and membership. These maps inform intelligently targeted offers that fit the society’s usage patterns in each geography and allow for fact-based selection of host cities for events, workshops.

EurekaFacts uses its expertise in quantitative and geo-analytic methods to support the growing need of nonprofit organizations to better understand the global environment in which they operate. Tools such as the geomapping of customer data helps formulate global strategy that can be localized to the specific conditions of each market. For additional information contact EurekaFacts at 301 610 0590.

EurekaFacts was represented at a small business luncheon held by Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley. Participating with other business owners,  was EurekaFacts CEO Jorge Restrepo. Business issues and an economic outlook were the focus of dialogue between the Maryland administration and a small group of business executives representative of the Montgomery County small business community. The event was held July 30, 2009 at the Rockville Town Center. Also attending were the Montgomery County Executive Ike Legget, Rockville Mayor Susan Hoffman, Secretary of  Business and Economic Development Christian Johanssen, and Maryland Special Secretary Small and Minority Business Affairs Luwanda Jenkins.�

The Maryland Business Gazette of Business & Politics recognized EurekaFacts’ CEO Jorge Restrepo as one of its featured 25 CEOs you must know in 2009.  Restrepo was nominated by the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development. The Gazette selects 25 CEOs to feature in a special edition every year since 2007.

The selected CEOs of companies and nonprofit organizations throughout the state were recognized at a luncheon event held in Bethesda, MD.  The Gazette is a Washington Post company and a leading business periodical in the State of Maryland.EurekaFacts is a full service research and analysis firm with headquarters in Rockville, MD. It provides research and advanced analytics such as surveys, focus groups, market segmentation customer satisfaction and program evaluations and custom studies and analysis. The full feature is available at www.gazette.net/business. 

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The EurekaFacts research respondent panel seeks new members to participate in one-on-one research interviews and focus groups. Many opportunities to participate in paid interviews and focus groups at our Rockville, MD research facility as well as on online and telephone studies are now available. All information on people who choose to register is treated with the highest level of confidentiality and the data is used only for research purposes.

Interested persons can sign up at: http://www.eurekafacts.com/contactUs/Participant.html 

While we are always seeking respondents of a wide range of backgrounds and ages, we have immediate paid research opportunities on several studies for people who meet one or more of the following criteria:

• People who go fishing or boating frequently, people who own a boat  of any size;
• People with respiratory conditions
• People of Hispanic or Latino origin - both first and second/subsequent generations
• People of Asian American origin
• People who have young children
• People of African American  descent
• Teachers, school counselors
• People who have traveled to other countries
• People who conduct volunteering activities
• Spanish speakers, speakers of Asian languages
• Residents of the Greater Washington area (DC, MD, VA)

Interestd persons should sign up online at the link below:

http://www.eurekafacts.com/contactUs/Participant.html

The information you provide will be used in order to invite you to participate in research studies for wich you may be an eligible participant. We do not sell or rent our lists and do not use them to sell products or services.

EurekaFacts was tasked by the US Census Bureau working as part of a team of companies (RTI, RSS and Westat) to help revise several questions for the American Community Survey (ACS). In support of this project EurekaFacts is recruiting volunteers in Maryland, Virginia, DC and Colorado to participate in these interviews. In-person interviews are now being scheduled and conducted in English and Spanish. Persons who are interested in participating are invited to respond to Cesar Garzon at garzonc@eurekafacts.com.