Four individuals and three groups will be recognized for outstanding work at this year's Evaluation 2011 conference in Anaheim
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Shifting an organizational culture so that nonprofit staff actually uses evaluation results can be extremely challenging. The Latin American Youth Center (LAYC), a multi-service nonprofit in Washington, D.C., is an example of a nonprofit that has been working to achieve this culture change. One of the organization's internal evaluators shared: 1) How our roles have changed to respond to the organization’s evolving needs, 2) Our strategies for producing relevant information for all stakeholders, from funders to the Board of Directors to the program recipients themselves, and 3) Our methods of building evaluation capacity so that we’re partnering with program staff through the evaluation lifecycle rather than making decisions on their behalf
Emery Creating a culture where nonprofit staff actually utilizes outcomes measurement and evaluation techniques on a regular basis is extremely challenging. The Latin American Youth Center (LAYC), a multi-service nonprofit in Washington, DC is an example of a nonprofit that has achieved this culture change. This roundtable allowed LAYC's Learning and Evaluation Division, the internal program evaluation group at LAYC, to share some of the lessons learned, challenges encountered, and techniques used during this multi-year process. We discussed the initial steps we took to convince staff to embrace evaluation concepts, growth of evaluation capacity within the organization, maintenance of the culture over time, and unexpected challenges. #Non-ProfitsandFoundationsEvaluation #InternalEvaluation #LeahGalvin #AnnKEmery #OrganizationalLearningandEvalCapacityBuilding #LatinAmericanYouthCenter #IsaacCastillo #YouthFocusedEvaluation #internal evaluation #2011Conference #Youth
Abstract: This session will complicate our understandings about indigenous approaches to evaluation. During this session we will explore four spaces that American Indians occupy in the United States, will discuss implications for evaluation in each space, and I will provide a deeper understanding of how leaders of thirty-two urban-based American Indian non-profit agencies perceive and practice indigenous approaches to evaluation in their organizations #Indigenous #values #UrbanAmericanIndians #nonprofit #CulturalResponsiveness
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I shared why I love being an internal evaluator at a community-based non-profit organization in Washington, D.C. #Non-ProfitsandFoundationsEvaluation #OrganizationalLearningandEvalCapacityBuilding #InternalEvaluation #Ignite #Youth #2012Conference #LatinAmericanYouthCenter #AnnKEmery #YouthFocusedEvaluation #organizational-learning #internal evaluation