About Us

Rainbow Research, Inc. is conducting an external evaluation of the Healthy Eating Minnesota (HEM) Initiative for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.

Rainbow Research is also providing technical assistance to HEM Communities, building the capacity of these organizations to design and conduct small-scale, outcome-focused evaluations of their own work.

Technical Assistance Activities include:
• Identification and adaptation of evaluation resources
• Individual consultation with each community
• Training in a range of evaluation strategies
• Dissemination of promising evaluation practices

Evaluation Project Team

Pat Seppanen 612-824-0724 pseppanen@rainbowresearch.org
Marijo Wunderlich 612-824-0724 mwunderlich@rainbowresearch.org

Healthy Eating Minnesota

Healthy Eating Minnesota (HEM) is a community funding initiative of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to create broad and sustainable improvements in a wide variety of food environments in the state of Minnesota. For more information on this and other initiatives, visit preventionminnesota.com.