Understanding Power + Privilege in Evaluation June 7, 2017 | Shya Castillo There is growing acknowledgment in the social and public sectors of the importance of creating conditions for meaningful and inclusive community engagement in research and evaluation. A recently launched initiative,…
Want to Change Practice? You Need Good Process May 16, 2017 | Casey Mackereth In the age of evidence-based practice, the role of practitioners—the teachers, social workers or program officers who provide a service—is often overlooked when evaluating results. Yet, the practitioner is a…
Personal Impacts of Small + Micro Business Loans April 6, 2017 | Anna Cruz America’s 28 million small businesses account for over 50% of all sales and almost half of the jobs in the United States. The smallest of these businesses, known as micro-businesses,…
How Do Foundations Learn? March 14, 2017 | Nicole McGovern Foundations are a key audience for many organizations. Researchers like us want to share insights from evaluations to help inform funders’ practices and strategies. Funders often want to engage their…
Communicating Amidst Complexity: Principles to Guide Developmental Evaluators February 14, 2017 | Clare Nolan Funders that have ambitious goals to change large systems often create partnerships with intermediaries and evaluators to realize their visions. But what does it take to make these partnerships work…
How Evaluators and Communicators Can Embrace for Success December 13, 2016 | Kevin Rafter As evaluators and communicators, we’ve seen a familiar pattern: It’s time to prepare an evaluation report and share it with our clients and their different audiences. But this assignment can…
