Category: Evaluation

The Centre for Evaluation Innovation and Network Impact recently partnered to create a how-to guide on network evaluation. The following is a rationale for this guide provided by the authors. Changemakers everywhere are investing in and building new networks – from large-scale cross-sector “collective impact” initiatives to more targeted efforts to promote policy change, spark innovation, or improve the delivery of services…. Read more »

The concept of ‘collective impact’ is gaining traction in the evaluation world. A key support in developing this movement has been the Collective Impact Forum – a central place that houses tools, training and a networking for everything related to collective impact. One of the features on the website is a list of upcoming events, such as… Read more »

See below for the description of an archived webinar on using big data to predict social impact, brought to you by the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Evaluation has been a necessary evil for most nonprofits—expensive, time-consuming, impractical, and yet an absolute pre-requisite for funding.  But is there a better way?  The paradigm of evaluation is moving… Read more »

The Otto Bremer Foundation recently commissioned Michael Quinn Patton to create a set of Evaluation Flash Cards that present a one-page description of basic evaluation concepts. There are a total of 25 flash cards that address a range of topics, from logic models to developmental evaluation. The Otto Bremer Foundation explains that the flash cards can help… Read more »

Earlier this month, the Collective Impact Forum published a compilation of nine new articles about collective impact, “Collective Insights on Collective Impact”. These articles shares cutting-edge thinking from 22 practitioners, funders, community organizers, and thought-leaders engaged in collective impact work. Through the diverse voices of the authors, you can dive deeper into important collective impact topics… Read more »

The American Evaluation Association (AEA) will be hosting a Coffee Break Webinar later this month called, “Data Visualization for Evaluation: Critical Thinking Skills, Design Principles, and Technical How-Tos”. See below for the description from the AEA: Want to visualize your data, but not sure where to start? Have a gut feeling that you’re not getting… Read more »

The Claremont Evaluation Center is hosting an upcoming Professional Development Workshop Series in Evaluation and Applied Research Methods. See below for their description of the event. ______ The Claremont Evaluation Center is pleased to bring you this longstanding series which provides practical and theoretical training in evaluation and applied research through one-day workshops, taught by academics… Read more »

Innoweave is pleased to partner with the West Vancouver Community Foundation to host an Introduction to Collective Impact webinar on September 10th at 12:00pm PT. The webinar will provide an overview of Collective Impact, including how it is being used and whether it might be applicable to your community initiative. Prior to attending the webinar, we encourage… Read more »

Many of the changes we expect to see as a result of community-based programming can be difficult to measure. When thinking about the outcomes of reduced poverty and increased collaboration, for example, clear indicators of success do not easily come to mind. Recognizing this challenge, Tamarack created a resource entitled, Approaches to Measuring Community Change Indicators, in collaboration with the Ontario… Read more »

The Canadian Evaluation Society is offering an upcoming workshop focusing on evaluation capacity building. See below for the blurb about the event. Does your organization have adequate capacity to carry out its evaluation function? And just what is “capacity” anyway? Evaluation capacity development (ECB) is a core element to “results-oriented management” as it is the process… Read more »

The BC and Yukon Chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society is pleased to announce that the 2014 Evaluation in the Health Sector conference is being held in Vancouver, BC on Friday, November 21, 2014. Its focus is on health sector evaluations in the Lower Mainland. Who should attend?  Evaluation professionals, members of academia, program managers, students… Read more »

The BC and Yukon Chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society is hosting an upcoming workshop entitled, “Effective Presentation and Data Visualization”. See below for a description of the workshop. Presenting data effectively is key to community engagement, knowledge mobilization and evaluation utilization. In this presentation, the presenter will examine some of the science behind data… Read more »