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...
What if we viewed evaluation as a service as well as a means of assessing value and supporting decision-making? A design-driven approach to evaluation is one that brings insights from service design into the practice of evaluation by integrating creativity, craft, and empathy with data-gathering, feedback, and sensemaking into the evaluator’s role. This approach, which...
The Canadian Evaluation Society’s on-line ten-week course offers participants with a basic understanding of the main models and practices of evaluation. No prior knowledge of evaluation or social science research methods is required to participate. Participants will gain: Basic knowledge and skills, Appreciation for essential elements of evaluation, Capacity to apply acquired knowledge and skills,...
Principles-Focused EvaluationFacilitator: Paul Bakker, CE Upcoming Sessions Rescheduled to: April 7, 2021, 9 AM – 12 PM Registration deadline: April 6, 2021 Online Register here! Principles help organizations adhere to values and beliefs, and helps them be effective; especially when dealing with complex issues. This workshop will enable participants to understand how and when using...
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...
Data visualization as a hot topic in the evaluation world, especially in knowledge transfer activities. The interactive and multi-modal workshop will focus on a specific type of data visualization, namely infographics – artistic or graphic presentation of data to communicate insights. We will briefly orient infographics in the realm of data visualization, illustrating the different...
Join us on May 11, 2021 for a stimulating, and interactive virtual conference on Evaluation.Building Better Evaluation – Connecting Ontario is a one-day conference event that is being held in conjunction with the CES National Conference. Join us and: Engage and influence conversations about evaluation in Ontario. Connect to evaluators, networks, and organizations. Learn from...
The Canadian Evaluation Society’s on-line ten-week course offers participants with a basic understanding of the main models and practices of evaluation. No prior knowledge of evaluation or social science research methods is required to participate. Participants will gain: Basic knowledge and skills, Appreciation for essential elements of evaluation, Capacity to apply acquired knowledge and skills,...
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...
Data visualization as a hot topic in the evaluation world, especially in knowledge transfer activities. The interactive and multi-modal workshop will focus on a specific type of data visualization, namely infographics – artistic or graphic presentation of data to communicate insights. We will briefly orient infographics in the realm of data visualization, illustrating the different...
