The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) had launched an online shared learning environment, the Knowledge Centre, to help connect Ontario’s nonprofit sector. This site includes a discussion forum, and a resource library that will grow with the sector’s engagement.The discussion forums are centered around OTF’s six Action Areas, and two other topics currently, evaluation and measurement,...
The Students Commission of Canada is a national charitable organization that purposely works with others to ensure that young people’s voices are heard and valued. The SCC believes in a world where all young people transition into a positive adulthood.The SCC leads a network called the Centre of Excellence for Youth Engagement, which focuses on...
LogicalOutcomes has launched SIS, the open source evaluation platform that Gillian presented to the evaluation café a few months ago. We have signed up our first clients, and want to work with the evaluation community to develop shared tools for the human service sector in Canada. We are hoping that the platform will be used...
Details For the first time ever, we are actually going to have an Evaluation Cafe Toronto event at a cafe. For those of you that like beer or wine, don’t worry, after the group discussions you can choose to duck downstairs for a drink. For this cafe, let’s each come with a least one evaluation...
Our two facilitators will present on their approaches to ensuring their evaluation work is equitable, and then will help us reflect on what we can do to incorporate equity considerations into our evaluation practice. Heidi Schaeffer will present on her work evaluating health equity initiatives and on applying Outcome Harvesting principles to enhance equity and...
From the event description:As noted at our last Eval Cafe event, some members noted interest in evaluation capacity building. A few members stepped up and we’ll have a couple present at this event; covering both building capacity with internal and external stakeholders. We’ll be on the Bedford Academy’s patio for this event. Try to show...
From the event description: Gustavo Miranda, Data Analysis, Program Evaluation and Quality Improvement, at the Etobicoke Children’s Centre will share the following with us: Online survey services/software like RedCap, SurveyMonkey, and LimeSurvey are a cheap, quick, user friendly way to collect information from an organization’s staff, stakeholders and community partners. This is especially true for...
From the event description:Hey fellow evaluation aficionados, Patricia and Marshal from Dig Insights have come forward to host us for our next Evaluation Cafe and to share some of the innovative methods they are using. Here’s their description about what they’ll share: Dig Insights (https://www.diginsights.com/) is excited to host this months Evaluation Café! Come to...
David Sul is a psychometrician and evaluator who specializes in culturally specific assessment in support of indigenous cultural and linguistic revitalization initiatives. Sul is a proponent of the development of performance-based assessments using item response theory (IRT) from indigenous perspectives. His unique approach to critical measurement considers assessment development as a political act that can...
