When you hear the word “evaluation,” what comes to mind? Requirements from funders? An audit? Scrambling to track down information for a report? Stress? A big question mark? What if someone told you evaluation could be a tool to support your own work while also making your funders and higher-ups happy?

This workshop will walk you through how to take simple steps to easily incorporate evaluation into your everyday work. You will learn how to use what you already know and are already doing to learn more about your work, do it better, and communicate your impact. These skills will not only help you have a better understanding of your own work and impact but will help you translate what you learn into language that will resonate with existing funders, potential donors, and your community.  

Please join us for an interactive workshop to learn how you can apply simple evaluation techniques in your organization that truly support your work while giving those who want to see your “data” what they need.

This workshop is designed to help smaller and lower-resourced organizations get started building an evaluation culture and share evaluation concepts that are not your standard "Eval 101" content.  

Learning objectives:

• Learn the difference between evaluation culture and standalone evaluation projects and when each of these approaches is most valuable
• Learn creative ways to apply evaluation basics to your real-life situation
• Discover stress-free evaluation techniques that you can use in your everyday work without adding extra busy work
• Learn how to enhance and support your programmatic, experiential, and community-based knowledge with real-time contextual data
• Learn how to incorporate equity-based principles into your data-gathering and evaluation activities
• Understand how to plan for evaluation and talk about it with funders and donors
• Learn ways to engage your staff, participants, and community through evaluation