This was the scenario for evaluating Wellington’s Smart Newtown community computing project where free Internet access as well as some computer skills training was provided at the four computing centres. The goal for the project was to narrow the digital divide by meeting economic and social inclusion objectives. The five-year evaluation period involved multiple stakeholders that included the two funding bodies (local government and a university) and a multi-national corporation that contributed time, money and on-going technical support for one of the computer centres. To capture data that would contribute to a meaningful and useful evaluation as well as adopt appropriate data collection methods for eliciting information from such disparate groups a mixed methods research design was used. The qualitative and quantitative approaches provided a robust evaluation platform that embraced diverse perspectives, methods, data and values and was guided by Greene, Caracelli & Graham’s Five-purpose Conceptual Framework: triangulation, complementarity, development, initiation, and expansion. The support provided by the framework ensured a systematic and thorough approach in both collection and analysis of data. In this paper we describe the application of each “purpose” of the framework to the different data sets that resulted in an evaluation that provided objective, impartial evidence for decision-making on the future of the centres being evaluated and for future publicly-funded community computing centres.