Built by evaluators who believed evidence should improve practice.
LeCroy & Milligan Associates was founded in 1991 by Kerry B. Milligan, MSSW, and Craig W. LeCroy, PhD, with a shared vision: to help human service and education organizations use rigorous evaluation information to understand their effectiveness, strengthen their capacity, and improve their services.
That founding purpose still shapes LMA’s work today. Kerry brought deep experience in evaluation planning, systems evaluation, strategic planning, facilitation, quality assurance, training, and direct service practice. Craig brought nationally recognized research expertise in home visitation, evidence-based social work practice, randomized trials, outcome measurement, and applied evaluation.
Together, they built a firm grounded in both methodological rigor and real-world human service experience. That combination remains central to LMA’s identity: evaluation that is technically sound, context-aware, and useful to the people and organizations doing the work.
Meet our Founders
Kerry B. Milligan, MSSW
Kerry Milligan helped shape LMA’s practical, capacity-building approach to evaluation. Her work has included evaluation planning and management, systems evaluation, strategic planning, group facilitation, quality assurance, training systems, and consultation that helps organizations use evaluation findings for decision-making and program improvement. Her direct service background in clinical social work helped ground LMA’s work in the realities facing service organizations
Craig W. LeCroy, PhD
Dr. Craig LeCroy helped establish LMA’s research foundation. His work has focused on home visitation, adolescent social competence, evidence-based social work practice, randomized trials, outcome measurement, and evaluation research. He developed the Healthy Families Parenting Inventory, has served as principal investigator on numerous research projects, and has authored 15 books and more than 100 articles and book chapters.
LMA, A Legacy Firm
Established Expertise
LMA stands alone as a cornerstone of strategic evaluation and institutional guidance.
For almost three decades, LMA has served mission-driven organizations as a trusted advisor in evaluation, research, and strategic insight. Being a Legacy Firm is not simply about longevity—it is about sustained excellence, institutional memory, and the ability to adapt without losing purpose.
Since 1991, we have partnered with government agencies, foundations, education systems, health networks, and community coalitions to navigate complexity with clarity. Over time, we have refined methods, strengthened partnerships, and built a reputation grounded in integrity and technical rigor.
Legacy, for us, means perspective. It means understanding how systems evolve, how policy cycles shift, and how trends today often echo patterns from the past.
Work with an evaluation partner that brings depth, judgment, and clarity.
Whether you are evaluating a program, preparing for a grant, assessing community needs, strengthening a data system, or planning a new initiative, LMA brings the experience needed to guide the work carefully and usefully.
We help organizations turn complex information into evidence, and evidence into action.
Our Legacy
35+
Years
Of applied evaluation experience
Decades of experience helping organizations use evidence to improve programs, services, and outcomes.
400+ Projects
Completed across programs and systems
A deep portfolio of evaluation, research, planning, and technical assistance across complex systems.
300+ Partners
Across public, nonprofit, and community sectors
Trusted by public agencies, nonprofits, foundations, schools, coalitions, and community-based organizations.
100+ Publications
Research leadership with national reach
A research legacy grounded in applied scholarship, field knowledge, and evidence-based practice.