From the Meetup description: The Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) values mentorship as an important facet to evaluation learning, and currently offers an informal self-directed mentoring initiative that enables members of the CES to voluntarily register as a mentor, mentee, or both (https://mentoring.evaluationcanada.org/). As CES is launching a new Association Management System, there is an opportunity...
Evaluation Cafe Toronto is bringing together evaluators in the area to meet up! We'll be meeting on Thursday July 6th at Duke of York after work for drinks. Hope you can join to get to know other evaluators, build connections, and have fun. Hope to see you there! For information about the venue please visit:...
Happy Friday! We’ll be hosting another event to meet up on Tuesday, September 19th from 5:30-7:30pm at The Fox and the Fiddle, which is just across the street from Wellesley subway station. The theme of this meet up is: Unearth New Insights! We encourage the Eval community to join fellow evaluators to spark conversations, hear...
Gary Hayes will share a story of health impact in Indigenous communities in Alberta through digital storytelling and his doctoral research that examined how strategic impact campaigns can be respectfully co-created to affect change. There will be time to discuss how we can use film to enhance the impact of our evaluations/reports. Gary Hayes is...
CES Ontario + Evaluation Cafe Toronto will be hosting another event to meet up on Wednesday February 7th from 5:30-7:30pm at The Fox and the Fiddle, which is just across the street from Wellesley subway station. Light refreshments will be provided. This event is for program evaluators, monitoring and evaluation specialists, practitioners, and students! I...
About The next Evaluation Café meetup is coming soon in Toronto! 🌟 Our next Evaluation Café meetup is brewing up something special! Join us for an evening where numbers meet narratives, and charts mingle with chats. 📊💬 🗓 When: Monday, April 29th, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM 📍 Where: The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St...
From the Eval Café description: Our next online evaluation cafe will feature small group discussions on Developmental Evaluation and Theory of Change. Agenda: 10 minutes: log-on and intro 30-40 minutes: split into two groups, one for Developmental Evaluation (DE) DE and one for Theory of Change (TOC). The DE discussion will be lead by Scott Christian...
Presenter: Janet Murray, MA, CE – Resources for Results Evaluators Co-Presenters: Mary Kay MacVicar and Monica Forrester, Harm Reduction Team – Street Health, Toronto. During this session, we will reflect on our experience evaluating the four-year Community Harm Reduction Response Teams (CHRRT) initiative and other projects funded by the Substance Use and Addictions Program of...
CES has made select content from the 2025 conference available to chapters, and CES Ontario has asked Evaluation Cafe Ontario to host its conference watch party. Come join us over lunch to watch the session “Let’s Have a Data Party! Stories of Collaborative Learning and Change”, presented by Jakub Nemec, Paula Richardson. Afterwards, we'll break...
You're invited to join us for an informal Evaluation Café meetup over drinks and conversation at Hemingway’s! This month’s topic: Quantifying Qualitative Data. As evaluators, we’re often asked to put numbers to stories—whether it’s coding themes from interviews, summarizing open-ended survey responses, or making sense of focus group notes. But when does counting help, and...
Join us for a relaxed, social Evaluation Café where we’ll mix purposeful networking with a couple of light, laughter-friendly games to help folks connect across projects, sectors, and roles. Expect easy icebreakers (think Human Bingo / Speed-Friending energy), evaluator-adjacent shenanigans, and plenty of time to chat. What to expect 5:30–5:50 Check-in, grab a bite, casual...
To start the new year, let's have a bit of fun together. Join us for some trivia about evaluation and your peers! Evaluation Cafe Ontario online events are an opportunity for us to network and learn from our colleagues across the province. Anyone can join whether from Ontario or not, but presenters/facilitators will always be...
