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SUMMARY:Eval Café: Games & Mingling Night
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWhat to expect \n\n\n5:30–5:50 Check-in\, grab a bite\, casual intros \n\n\n5:50–6:25 Game #1: quick mixer to meet new people \n\n\n6:25–6:55 Game #2: small-group fun (zero prep required) \n\n\n6:55–7:30+ Open networking \n\n\nFood & drinks: Light snacks provided; drinks available for purchase at the bar. \nWho should come: Evaluators\, researchers\, data/strategy folks\, students\, and anyone evaluation-curious. \nVibe: Friendly\, low-stakes\, come-as-you-are.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/eval-cafe-games-mingling-night/
LOCATION:The Dylan Bar\, 1276 Danforth Ave\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4J 1M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:EvalCafe,Social Networking
ORGANIZER;CN="Eval Cafe":MAILTO:paul.bakker@evaluationontario.ca
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SUMMARY:CES Ontario Virtual Conference: Politics\, Progress and Possibility
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conference on the theme of Politics\, Progress and Possibility! Network\, learn\, and grow with evaluators like you!\nThe Canadian Evaluation Society Ontario Chapter (CES Ontario) is pleased to invite evaluation practitioners\, researchers\, academics\, emerging evaluators\, and students to join us for CES Ontario’s 2025 Virtual Conference. \nEvaluation is a constantly changing field of practice\, informed by new and emerging technologies\, approaches\, and political pressures. We will survey these topic areas\, explore their interplays and connections\, and discuss how to integrate them into our work. \nTopic Areas: \n\nNew and next approaches to program evaluation: new evaluation processes\, frameworks\, and models\, alternative funding models\, and decolonized evaluation approaches\nTechnology: how AI (and other tools!) are changing evaluation\, and considerations of utility and equity\nPolitical considerations: evaluation politics in Ontario\, Canadian\, and international contexts\, as well as managing projects and stakeholders\n\nConference participants will: \n\nGain a deeper understanding of current trends\, innovations\, opportunities\, and challenges for enhancing and integrating approaches in evaluation.\nGain important evaluation skills to address current and future trends.\nEnhance connections with other evaluators\, networks\, and organizations.\nContribute to discussions about the importance of evaluative thinking and evaluation practice in the areas of new approaches\, technology\, and politics.\n\nVisit our Virtual Conference website for session descriptions\, speaker bios\, and more!
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/ces-ontario-virtual-conference-politics-progress-and-possibility/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Advanced/Intermediate,Membership,Professional Development,Social Networking,Student,Student & New Practitioner
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SUMMARY:Eval Café: Quantifying Qualitative Data
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nAs 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 when does it risk oversimplifying? \nWe’ll explore practical ways to quantify qualitative data\, discuss when it adds value (and when it doesn’t)\, and share tips from our own practice. \n\nBring your stories\, questions\, and maybe a notebook. \nOpen to evaluators\, researchers\, and curious minds at any stage in their career. More details and add the event to your calendar using the following link: Evaluation Cafe Toronto Meetup: Quantifying Qualitative Data
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/eval-cafe-quantifying-qualitative-data/
LOCATION:Hemingway’s\, 142 Cumberland Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:EvalCafe,Social Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241127T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260509T051806
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SUMMARY:Eval Café: Developmental Evaluation and Theory of Change
DESCRIPTION:From the Eval Café description: \nOur next online evaluation cafe will feature small group discussions on Developmental Evaluation and Theory of Change.\n\nAgenda:\n\n\n10 minutes: log-on and intro\n30-40 minutes: split into two groups\, one for Developmental Evaluation (DE) DE and one for Theory of Change (TOC).\n\nThe DE discussion will be lead by Scott Christian (CE) a Senior Evaluator at LogicalOutcomes was 1 of 11 evaluators involved in last year’s Team Primary Care: Training for Transformation initiative which included (possibly) the largest scale developmental evaluation to date. He’s applied a developmental evaluation toolkit in a variety of other contexts too. This discussion will focus on practical insights that Scott and his colleagues have identified for effective developmental evaluations.”\nThe TOC discussion will be lead by Elizabeth (Lizzy) Sweitzer\, who is a Monitoring and Evaluation Subject Matter Expert\, working as a management consultant in the energy and sustainability field. Lizzy hosts meetups for evaluators with CES-ON and host professional development workshops for evaluators.  The discussion will focus on how to make TOC’s useful after initial development.\n\n\nLast 10-20 minutes come back to the large group and share key learnings.\n\nJoin online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86026011026?pwd=QPmScau3BsnmsXOfZlkkjac2yLOI38.1 \nInterested in learning more about Eval Café and joining our Groups.io online forum?  Email EvaluationCafeOntario+subscribe@groups.io to subscribe to our listserv!
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/eval-cafe-developmental-evaluation-and-theory-of-change/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:EvalCafe,Membership,Social Networking
ORGANIZER;CN="Eval Cafe":MAILTO:paul.bakker@evaluationontario.ca
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SUMMARY:Evaluation Café Meet-Up
DESCRIPTION:About \nThe next Evaluation Café meetup is coming soon in Toronto! \n🌟 Our next Evaluation Café meetup is brewing up something special! Join us for an evening where numbers meet narratives\, and charts mingle with chats. 📊💬 \n🗓 When: Monday\, April 29th\, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM\n📍 Where: The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St E)\n🍻 Sponsored by: Canadian Evaluation Society – Ontario Chapter (CES-ON) (Yes\, they’re the cool folks making this happen!) \n🤔 Wondering what to expect? This is a casual gathering of evaluation enthusiasts\, from seasoned pros to curious newcomers\, all sharing insights over pints and pub grub. Whether you’re looking to network\, nibble\, or just nerd out over data\, there’s a seat at the table with your name on it! \n👉 Bring your best evaluation questions\, your funniest data disaster stories\, and your appetite – both for knowledge and for pub fare. \n🥂 RSVP now and let us know you’re coming!🍻 \n#EvaluationCafe #CESOntario #TorontoEvents #Networking #EvaluationCommunity
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/evaluation-cafe-meet-up-2/
LOCATION:Imperial Pub\, 54 Dundas Street East\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:EvalCafe,Membership,Social Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231129T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231129T130000
DTSTAMP:20260509T051806
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SUMMARY:Eval Café: Film to Enhance Impact
DESCRIPTION: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. \nGary Hayes is an impact practitioner\, filmmaker\, and adventure enthusiast. Drawing on his documentary television production experiences\, he partners with clients to co-create digital stories with accompanying impact campaigns. Through respectful engagement\, Hayes develops and co-designs initiatives that produce digital stories that have measurable impact goals. Hayes works with passionate social ambassadors\, communities\, organizations\, and government to strategically distribute and engage with audiences to co-create impact. \nPresented by EvalCafé Toronto with the support of CES Ontario. Members and non-members are welcome to attend. Visit the LinkedIn Event Page for more information
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/eval-cafe-film-to-enhance-impact/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:EvalCafe,Membership,Social Networking
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SUMMARY:CES Ontario Virtual Conference: Building Better Evaluation: Increasing Diversity and Promoting Inclusion
DESCRIPTION:***Register now!*** \n\n\n\nAnnouncing the CES-ON 2023 Virtual Conference: Building Better Evaluation – Increasing and Promoting Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion \nDo you want to: \n\nBetter understand how to integrate and promote diversity\, equity and inclusion within evaluation practices?\nInfluence Ontario’s evaluation eco-systems?\nDevelop lasting connections to evaluators\, networks\, and organizations?\nConnect with and learn from Ontario evaluation leaders?\nEarn professional development hours to maintain Credentialed Evaluator status?\n\nThen\, save the date for CES-Ontario’s 2023 virtual one-day conference on October 26\, 2023. \nThe conference’s theme is Building Better Evaluation – Increasing and Promoting Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion. Sessions will inform and connect participants to efforts to build better evaluation within and beyond Ontario. The conference will include: \n\nA presentation and discussion on evaluation ethics to start and frame the event.\nA panel on the state of evaluation today\, exploring trends\, concerns\, and opportunities for change across a diversity\, equity\, inclusion\, and anti-oppression framework from the perspectives of many different stakeholders with Ontario.\nOpportunities to learn about and connect with Evaluation Communities of Practice across different sectors.\nInteractive workshops on methods and approaches to evaluation hosted by leading practitioners from across Ontario.\nPeer to peer learning to facilitate reflection\, collaboration\, and engagement with evaluators.\nSocial events to rejuvenate you both personally and professionally.\n\nA key objective of this event is to facilitate networking\, peer to peer learning and to generate meaningful conversations and collaboration across communities of practice in several evaluation domains. We are working hard to ensure every part of the conference will be engaging and stimulating. Sessions will be highly interactive\, with lots of small group reflection\, discussion\, and application. \nCES members will be able register for the entire conference for just $150\, and non-members will be able to register for $175.  \nCES Ontario supports CES National’s commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation process and is pleased to offer complimentary registration to Indigenous evaluators. Please connect with our conference team to register.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/ces-ontario-virtual-conference-building-better-evaluation-increasing-diversity-and-promoting-inclusion/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Membership,Professional Development,Social Networking,Student,Student & New Practitioner
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191009T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191009T200000
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SUMMARY:Eval Cafe: Agile Reporting of Survey Data
DESCRIPTION:From the event description:  \nGustavo Miranda\, Data Analysis\, Program Evaluation and Quality Improvement\, at the Etobicoke Children’s Centre will share the following with us: \nOnline 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 organizations with resources too limited to design their own databases and host their own servers. \nUnlike the data collected in locally hosted relational databases\, however\, responses from online surveys can’t always be accessed in a format that lends itself to quick\, agile\, versatile reporting. \nTwo little known features available in Excel and the free Power BI Desktop software can mitigate these limitations. \nThis demo-heavy presentation/discussion will demonstrate how: \n1) Power Query’s point-and-click interface as well as its data transformation language\, M\, can be used to combine several flat files of survey feedback and break them out into a relational table structure in an automated\, replicable way \, \nand\, if we have time \n2) how Power Pivot and it’s measurement language DAX can be used to connect those related tables and create quick\, interactive reports that can be used to guide decision making and ensure quick responses to client feedback. \nExamples of service improvement will be discussed. \nThis location has a security guard\, so we need to supply everyone’s names ahead of time\, so please RSVP by 12 PM on Tuesday\, October 8\, 2019. CES Ontario is a sponsor of Eval Cafe Toronto. \nTickets: https://www.meetup.com/Evaluation-Cafe-Toronto/events/265386723/.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/eval-cafe-agile-reporting-of-survey-data/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:EvalCafe,Membership,Social Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190916T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190916T193000
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SUMMARY:Credentialed Evaluation: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The Canadian Evaluation Society – Ontario Chapter is pleased to host a Membership Networking Event. You are invited to join Evaluators for complimentary appetizers and an opportunity to engage in good conversation with seasoned and emerging evaluators. This is an open event; you do not need to be a CES Member to attend! \nThis event has a special focus on the Credentialed Evaluator (CE) designation. It will include a panel discussion on the experience of applying for the CE designation\, and the benefits of having the CE designation. The panel member will consist of the several Evaluators from various fields including the following: \nDr. Keiko Kuji-Shikatani\, C.E.\, is an internal Evaluator with the Ministry of Education\, infusing evaluative thinking in collaborative teams to build sector capacity for the use of evidence to inform decisions. She shares her Development Evaluation expertise widely leading interministerial collaborations\, evaluation capacity building for governments both in Canada and internationally\, through universities\, civil societies and EvalPartners. \nYasser Ismail\, MFA\, C.E.\, is the Corporate Evaluation Consultant at the College of Nurses of Ontario. Over the last seven years\, Yasser has worked as a full-time evaluation consultant within Ontario’s health system both as an external and internal evaluator. Yasser’s current focus is on using evaluative tools to facilitate evidence-informed program design and evaluation. Demonstrating evaluation value\, evaluation capacity building and reflective practice are also areas of interest for Yasser. \nMarika Warner\, MSc.\, C.E.\, is the Director of Research and Evaluation at MLSE LaunchPad\, a Sport For Development facility for youth facing barriers in downtown Toronto. Marika’s large portfolio includes program evaluation\, longitudinal research and academic partnerships focusing on positive youth development and corporate social responsibility in professional sport. Marika holds a BScPT from the University of Alberta and an MSc from the University of Toronto. Prior to her current role\, Marika worked as a clinician and clinical researcher at Toronto Rehab\, Bloorview Research Institute\, and Regent Park Community Health Centre. Marika is also a retired professional dancer and mother of one. \nDr. Cameron Norman\, C.E.\, is a professional designer\, psychologist\, educator\, and evaluator who works with human service organizations to organize and support innovation for wellbeing. Cameron has worked in evaluation as a practitioner\, scholar\, educator\, and advocate for more than 20 years and was among the first cohort of professionals to receive the Credentialed Evaluator designation in Canada. He is the President of Cense Ltd. and serves on the faculty at OCAD University in the Design and Health program and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. \nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/credentialed-evaluation-a-panel-discussion-tickets-66764280761.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/credentialed-evaluation-a-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Advanced/Intermediate,Membership,Professional Development,Social Networking,Student,Student & New Practitioner
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190715T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190715T193000
DTSTAMP:20260509T051806
CREATED:20210616T173253Z
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SUMMARY:CES Summer Social: Evaluator Meet + Greet
DESCRIPTION:About our Event:\nWe would like to host you at the CES Summer Social coming up at Page One. The purpose of this event is to provide an informal setting for new practitioners and students to network with experienced Evaluators\, learn from their narratives\, and ask questions. The event will be structured as four casual small groups – please feel free to move among them throughout the evening! Food and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided. \nPlease take a moment to review the bios of our Experienced Evaluators\, and come prepared with questions. You can ask general questions about evaluation\, about their careers\, about tricky evaluation scenarios you might be facing right now\, and more. \nSee you on Monday July 15th! \nThis meet and greet is presented in conjunction with the July 2019 Essential Skills Series.  \nAbout our Experts:\nPatricia King is currently the Vice President of Evaluation and Qualitative Research at Dig Insights and an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University. She previously worked as the Director of Evaluation at MQO Research. Other past experience includes working in the public sector as a Manager with the Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador conducting research to inform policy development\, as well as in the private sector conducting provincial and national evaluations. She just completed tenure as president of the CES–Newfoundland and Labrador (CES-NL). She has over 8 years of experience on volunteer boards\, and almost 10 years of experience on both the client and suppliers side of research and evaluation. Patricia holds a Masters of Applied Social Psychology from Memorial University and a Credentialed Evaluator (CE) designation from the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES). \nEden Amare is an Evaluator that is passionate about social services. She currently works as a Policy Development Officer with the Shelter\, Support & Housing Administration division of the City of Toronto\, where her projects focus on quality assurance and evaluation. She previously worked as the Program Evaluator at Toronto Public Health where she evaluated communicable disease control programs. Eden also possesses evaluation experience at the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement\, including organizational evaluation capacity-building. She holds a Master of Health Evaluation from the University of Waterloo and was a finalist in the 2018 Canadian Evaluation Society Student Case Competition. \nNick Petten is a researcher\, consultant\, and evaluator that is primarily concerned with how to meaningfully and ethically involve diverse populations in research\, evaluation and program design. As a representative of his professional associations in several governance functions (Canadian Evaluation Society and American Evaluation Association) and currently working in municipal government in Strategic Planning\, Management and Evaluation\, Nick is continually facilitating knowledge exchange and demonstrating the social impact of programming and services for people using ethical and rigorous scientific methods. \nPaul Bakker is a Credential Evaluator and coach\, with over a decade of experience. For the last seven years\, he has run his independent evaluation consulting practice\, Social Impact Squared. His evaluation projects are typically for small nonprofits or provincial government agencies in the areas of education\, health\, employment\, youth development\, and crime prevention. His wide range of experience includes using developmental evaluation approaches to carrying out quasi-experimental designs and statistical analyses. Paul also organizes Evaluation Cafe Toronto events for those interested in evaluation to learn and connect with each other. \n\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ces-summer-social-evaluator-meet-greet-tickets-64185596848.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/ces-summer-social-evaluator-meet-greet/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Membership,Social Networking,Student,Student & New Practitioner
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190619T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190619T163000
DTSTAMP:20260509T051806
CREATED:20210616T173251Z
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SUMMARY:2019 CES AGM + Learning Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 23rd annual CES Ontario AGM and Learning Event! This event is open to all members of the Canadian Evaluation Society Ontario chapter\, as well as interested members of the public. \n  \nEvent Agenda:\n1:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Registration & Networking \n1:30 PM – 3:45 PM: Annual General Meeting + Integrated Strategic/Operational Plan update and consultation \n3:45 PM – 4:00 AM: Break & Networking Event \n4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Learning Event: Feminist Data Analysis \n  \nAnnual General Meeting + Integrated Strategic/Operational Plan update and consultation\nAs you are all aware\, CES Ontario has undertaken an integrated strategic and operational planning process (ISOP) to guide us over the next 5 years. In this session\, members will review our updated Vision\, Mission\, Value Statements\, and Strategic Directions. We will also be engaging members in helping us identify key activities to move our operational planning forward and bring our ISOP Goals to life. \nLearning Event: Feminist Data Analysis\n\nVery few people become evaluators because they want to promote racist or sexist ideas. However\, it’s very easy to accidentally fall into these traps\, particularly in the data-centric aspects of evaluation. A working understanding of how to incorporate ethics and equity into quantitative evaluation is essential. Heather’s talk will tell stories and show real world examples that will guide you through the process of learning to identify inequity and hidden bias at seven key stages of the evaluation data lifecycle. \nAbout the Speaker:\nHeather Krause is a data scientist working on projects for equity and ethics in data. As a statistician (PStat) she attacks the largest questions facing societies today\, working with non-profit and social sector organizations\, local and national governments\, and data journalists. Her relentless pursuit of clarity and realism in these projects pushed her beyond pure analysis to mastering the entire data ecosystem including ground-breaking work in evaluation\, data sourcing\, design\, visualization\, communication\, and journalism\, each incorporating bleeding edge theory and technologies. Her unique contributions have been sought across a range of clients from individual researchers to large international organizations including FiveThirtyEight\, Orb Media\, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation\, CARE\, MasterCard\, the UNHCR\, and several national governments. \nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2019-ces-ontario-agm-learning-event-tickets-62239544152.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/2019-ces-agm-learning-event/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meetings,Membership,Social Networking,Student,Student & New Practitioner
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190528T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190528T203000
DTSTAMP:20260509T051806
CREATED:20210616T173251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210616T173251Z
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SUMMARY:Eval Cafe: Equity in Evaluation
DESCRIPTION: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 inclusion. Heather Krause will also present on how Feminist data analysis principles present opportunities to increase equity\, inclusion\, and fairness. \nCES Ontario is a sponsor of Eval Cafe Toronto. \nTickets: https://www.meetup.com/Evaluation-Cafe-Toronto/events/260769828/.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/eval-cafe-equity-in-evaluation/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:EvalCafe,Membership,Social Networking,Student,Student & New Practitioner
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20181105T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20181105T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T051806
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210616T173221Z
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SUMMARY:City of Hamilton & CES Ontario: Research and Evaluation Network Event
DESCRIPTION:Join the City of Hamilton – Children’s Services and Neighbourhood Development Division and the Canadian Evaluation Society – Ontario Chapter (CES-ON) at a co-hosted inaugural Research and Evaluation Network event. This event is free to attend\, and light snacks and refreshments will be provided. \nThe City is looking to broaden the scope of the previously existing Best Start Early Year’s Research and Evaluation Committee to include more members\, a wider range of functions\, including a focus on human services and system-level inquiry and learning. \nOne of CES-ON’s goals is to support local evaluation communities of practice and connect its members to them. \nThe event will start with a presentation from Michelle Vine and Rachel Laxer (from Public Health Ontario) on the Evaluation of the Healthy Kids Community Challenge\, which is a community-based intervention developed by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC). Forty-five Ontario communities worked with local public and private partners to develop and implement community-based initiatives (i.e.\, programs\, policies\, environmental supports) to promote healthy behaviours among children and youth. Michelle and Rachel will discuss: \n\nHow a multi-stakeholder approach is integral for population-based initiatives to be most effective.\nResults of some of the partnerships formed.\nSuccesses and challenges associated with forming public-private partnerships.\nWays in which PHO formed partnerships across sectors in order to carry out the different evaluation activities.\n\nAfter the presentation there will be small group discussions on how to best nurture engagement in the Research and Evaluation Network moving forward. \nLastly\, there will be time for open networking\, so that attendees can get to know new members working on evaluation in the Hamilton region. \nWhat are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event? \nThere are paid parking lots under Jackson Square mall\, which is attached to the Library. \nWhen to arrive: \nPlease arrive starting at 4:30pm to register and find a seat\, as the event will start at 5pm sharp. \nAbout the presenters: \nDr. Michelle Vine is an Evaluation Specialist in Health Promotion\, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention at Public Health Ontario and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. She is a social geographer\, with a focus on the environment and health\, population health intervention research\, health policy implementation and evaluation\, and qualitative research methods. \nDr. Rachel Laxer is an Evaluation Specialist in Health Promotion\, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention at Public Health Ontario. Her PhD research focused on obesity-related behaviours in youth\, and the implementation of programs and policies in schools to improve youth health behaviours. Prior to PHO\, Rachel worked as an evaluation consultant for Ophea\, evaluating the impact of their Healthy Schools Certification and informing programmatic changes. \nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/city-of-hamilton-ces-ontario-research-and-evaluation-network-event-tickets-51252328093.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/city-of-hamilton-ces-ontario-research-and-evaluation-network-event/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Membership,Social Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20181010T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20181010T200000
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SUMMARY:Eval Cafe: Youth Engagement in Evaluation: The Students Commission of Canada’s Approach
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe SCC leads a network called the Centre of Excellence for Youth Engagement\, which focuses on bringing together youth\, academics and organizations to generate and gather research on meaningful youth engagement. For the past 7 years\, the SCC and CEYE have been supporting 300 youth serving organizations to effectively tell their story through rigorous evaluation. They use a shared database to provide customized evaluation supports for individual organizations. They also aggregate the data from individual organizations to identify trends that are occurring across the youth-serving sector. The SCC will present their approach and showcase some of the aggregated data at our next meeting. \nLight snacks will be provided courtesy of CES-Ontario (http://www.evaluationontario.ca/). Members will need to pay for their drinks or additional food. \nTickets: https://www.meetup.com/Evaluation-Cafe-Toronto/events/254972688/?rv=co1&_xtd=gatlbWFpbF9jbGlja9oAJGJlMzJlNTYxLWY0MDYtNDVkOC1iNGJhLTQ2YjQzMmVlMTUxOQ&_cookie-check=FD61pEAilxgDEa8E.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/eval-cafe-youth-engagement-in-evaluation-the-students-commission-of-canadas-approach/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:EvalCafe,Social Networking,Student,Student & New Practitioner
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180724T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180724T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T051806
CREATED:20210616T173218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210616T173218Z
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SUMMARY:Eval Cafe: OTF’s Evaluation and Measurement Hub Discussion
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe discussion forums are centered around OTF’s six Action Areas\, and two other topics currently\, evaluation and measurement\, and open data. OTF’s hope is that this site will be a space that can help make connections across the nonprofit sector and where people can share stories\, challenges opportunities\, and important resources. \nAs mentioned above\, one of the discussion forums focuses on evaluation and measurement (Measurement Hub). Come join Stacey McDonald\, the Measurement Hub’s moderator on Tuesday\, July 24th to help us discuss how this space can be useful to people doing evaluative work in the nonprofit sector. OTF wants to hear from you about what types of discussions or resources would be most helpful and how such as space could help you in your work. \nTo help individuals with kids and/or other evening engagements attend our events\, we are testing out a 5pm start time. The discussion will get started around 5:30pm\, followed by time for open networking. \nLight snacks will be provided courtesy of CES-ON. \nTickets: https://www.meetup.com/Evaluation-Cafe-Toronto/events/252675605/.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/eval-cafe-otfs-evaluation-and-measurement-hub-discussion/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:EvalCafe,Social Networking
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