From the event description:Your participation is welcome to the first of a fall series of the Water Well Evaluation Café. While we are practicing social distancing, this meeting will be virtual. This month’s topic: community-based evaluation. We will explore principles of voice, participation, and respect. There will be three cases presented, followed by a Q&A...
From the event description: During this Evaluation Cafe session, Cameron Kroetsch, a member of the Board for Pride Hamilton and Chair of the City of Hamilton’s LGBTQ Advisory Committee, will describe his experience with third party research and reports on Hamilton Police’s handling of the 2019 Hamilton Pride events and on the City’s Hate Prevention...
Welcome to the second in a fall series of the Water Well Evaluation Café. While we are practicing social distancing, this meeting will be virtual.Equity continues to be a theme with this month’s topic exploring community-based evaluation. We will explore principles of voice, participation, and respect. The Michigan Energy Assistance Program (MEAP) is one of...
Interested in systems change? Welcome to the winter series of the Water Well Evaluation Cafe. Our guest speaker will be Daniel Buckles, who will provide a road map to tools and concepts for engaging people and mobilizing evidence in complex social systems. The approach, detailed in various books and a website, combines rigor with participation...
From the event description:The Canadian Evaluation Society Ontario Chapter (CES Ontario) is one of the largest Provincial chapters of the Canadian Evaluation Society, the professional association of evaluators. As you may have heard, CES Ontario is a proud sponsor of Evaluation Cafe Ontario. CES Membership has its benefits, including professional development and credentialing, networking, mentorship...
Ten years ago, Vancity Community Foundation led a collaborative project to address challenges that community-based organizations face in measuring impact. The project resulted in the Demonstrating Value framework, a simple process, with supporting resources, to help organizations work out how to use information and data more effectively for management, planning and engaging partners, funders and...
Reflective and reflexive practice is increasingly being recognized as a method by which evaluators can monitor their biases, better understand their privilege and increase their awareness of power dynamics. The intended goal of reflexive practice is to reduce the risk that an evaluator uncritically perpetuates systemic oppressions during the course of an evaluation. Furthermore, if...
RSVP online here: https://www.meetup.com/Evaluation-Cafe-Ontario/events/279368328/ From the MeetUp event description: We can't quite yet get together safely as a big group on a patio this summer, but we can share some food and drink virtually. Come join us anytime between 6 and 8pm on August 16 to connect with fellow evaluation enthusiasts. I will put people...
The Water Well Evaluation Cafe will be convening a fall 2021 series of 2-3 Zoom sessions on Journeying to Truth and Reconciliation. There will be advance readings, discussion, and guided facilitation. We anticipate traveling together as a group, and value commitment for the entire series. Our first meeting is on October 7, at noon, with...
Register here: https://www.meetup.com/Evaluation-Cafe-Ontario/events/280748966/ As evaluators seek to integrate more equitable (and dare we dream, more transformative) approaches to evaluation, we often find that the systems that employ us to evaluate are not yet positioned to enable approaches that give more voice and decision-making power to clients or beneficiaries. Despite this, we are seeing increasing examples...
From the Eval Cafe description: We are looking forward to finally seeing people in-person again! We hope you can join us at the first ever Evaluator’s picnic on July 7th starting at 6pm. Also, save the date of July 14th in case July 7th gets rained out. Come bring your favorite food for just yourself...
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...
