Eval Cafe: Youth Engagement in Evaluation: The Students Commission of Canada’s Approach

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...

Strategic Project Management for Evaluators

There are 47 tools and processes used in Project Management. Which ones are best suited to your evaluation practice? Join us this April for a workshop that will expand on four key project management tools you can use to advance and hone your evaluation practice.The sheer number of tools and processes in the Project Management...

City of Hamilton & CES Ontario: Research and Evaluation Network Event

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.The City is looking to broaden the scope of the previously existing...

November 2018 Essential Skills Series

This 4-day course was developed by the Canadian Evaluation Society to provide participants with a basic understanding of the main models and practices associated with the profession of evaluation. Prior knowledge of evaluation and of social science research methods is not required. There are no examinations associated with the course, nor is there any homework....

Eval Cafe: Launch of the Service Information System (SIS) for evaluators

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...

Developmental Evaluation in Action: Facilitating Social Innovation in Real-time

Developmental Evaluation in Action: Facilitating Social Innovation in Real-time consists of three parts: Online webinar: Wednesday November 28, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM In-person: Tuesday December 4 & Wedenesday December, 9 AM (registration 8:30 AM) – 3:30 PM. Refreshments will be provided. On-line group consultation (optional): TBA Course outline: This blended course provides participants with...

January 2019 Essential Skills Series

This 4-day course was developed by the Canadian Evaluation Society to provide participants with a basic understanding of the main models and practices associated with the profession of evaluation. Prior knowledge of evaluation and of social science research methods is not required. There are no examinations associated with the course, nor is there any homework....

Eval Cafe: Tips of the Trade – RESCHEDULED

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...

The Art & Science of Producing Effective Infographics

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...

April 2019 Essential Skills Series

Description This 4-day course was developed by the Canadian Evaluation Society to provide participants with a basic understanding of the main models and practices associated with the profession of evaluation. Prior knowledge of evaluation and of social science research methods is not required. There are no examinations associated with the course, nor is there any...

Eval Cafe: Equity in 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...

2019 CES AGM + Learning Event

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.  Event Agenda: 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Registration & Networking 1:30 PM – 3:45 PM: Annual General Meeting + Integrated...

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