Resources
presentation Jul 2020
Re-Thinking How We Work with Foundation Trustees on Evaluation and Learning
One of the things that routinely gets in the way of foundations having a learning culture is what happens when staff and boards engage. The problem is that most of the routines in the board room are actually based on the mental model that social change is a technocratic problem-solving endeavor. So what happens—in the ways that artifacts get exchanged…
insight Jun 2020
It’s Time to Let Go of Tired Narratives about Talent in Evaluation
publication Jan 2020
Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices 2020
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Re-Thinking How We Work with Foundation Trustees on Evaluation and Learningpresentation Jul 2020
Re-Thinking How We Work with Foundation Trustees on Evaluation and Learning
One of the things that routinely gets in the way of foundations having a learning culture is what happens when staff and boards engage. The problem is that most of the routines in the board room are actually based on the mental model that social change is a technocratic problem-solving endeavor. So what happens—in the ways that artifacts get exchanged with boards, and in the ways that board conversations get set up—is that we incentivize and reward staff who project a degree of certainty about how social change happens that's just not real because the change process is much more complex.
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It’s Time to Let Go of Tired Narratives about Talent in Evaluationinsight Jun 2020
It’s Time to Let Go of Tired Narratives about Talent in Evaluation
Social sector conversations about talent often focus on increasing diversity, building skillsets, and improving hiring and management. But to solve tough social problems, we need to let go of tired narratives about talent and work together to dismantle oppression in the evaluation field.
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We stand with our Black colleagues, friends, and loved onesinsight Jun 2020
We stand with our Black colleagues, friends, and loved ones
It is our responsibility to try to mend the damage we and our profession have wrought, and to work with others to rethink evaluation’s purpose and positioning in the sector so that it advances equity instead of helps to keep inequity rooted in place.
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Smart Decision-Makingpublication Mar 2020
Smart Decision-Making
Even when evidence is available in the social sector, it is rarely used. A number of tools and tactics can help us become savvier consumers of information.
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Performance Measurement for Emergent and Complex Strategies [Webinar]presentation Feb 2020
Performance Measurement for Emergent and Complex Strategies [Webinar]
Learn about four types of strategies—niche, integrated, emergent, and ecosystem—and the types of performance measurement and accountability systems best suited to each.
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Upcoming Changes for the Evaluation Roundtablepublication Feb 2020
Upcoming Changes for the Evaluation Roundtable
The Evaluation Roundtable's goal, model, and leadership will be changing in 2020.
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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices 2020publication Jan 2020
Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices 2020
What does foundation evaluation look like today? Is it adapting to meet the changing needs of the sector and society?
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The Realm of Possibility in Evaluationinsight Dec 2019
The Realm of Possibility in Evaluation
It is possible to get more from evaluation, and it starts by challenging our own habits.
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How Leaders Affect Evaluation Capacity Building in Foundationsinsight Oct 2019
How Leaders Affect Evaluation Capacity Building in Foundations
Regardless of intent, foundation leaders can substantially harm or strengthen evaluation capacity building in their organizations. We can add value if we know how and why.
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Funders are from Mars, Consultants are from Venusinsight Oct 2019
Funders are from Mars, Consultants are from Venus
If we want evaluation to add real value to social change efforts, both funders and evaluation consultants have to re-examine their roles and how they relate.
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Ties That Bind: A Values-Driven Approach to Evolving Evaluative Practiceinsight Oct 2019
Ties That Bind: A Values-Driven Approach to Evolving Evaluative Practice
A growing number of new initiatives are seeking to transform philanthropic evaluation in ways that can better support them and the social change they are after. We represent three of these efforts.
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Equitable Evaluation Framework Applies to all Evaluationinsight Oct 2019
Equitable Evaluation Framework Applies to all Evaluation
It can be hard to understand how equitable evaluation applies to any evaluation, even for strategies that do not explicitly focus on advancing equity. Julia Coffman writes about her “aha” moment, when she realized that equitable evaluation should be at the center of all of her work.
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