BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1H REFRESH-INTERVAL:P1H CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T130000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Webinar: Community in Evaluation DESCRIPTION:Evaluation helps organizations assess their progress toward the goals they've set\; articulate their challenges and successes\; and identify areas for improvement. However\, evaluations frequently suffer from understanding gaps which can limit the value of the findings. Evaluations that engage stakeholders benefit from multiple perspectives and honor different types of expertise. The Improve Group's Community-Responsive Approach (SM) ensures that the unique perspectives of all affected communities and stakeholder groups are represented in every phase of the evaluation process\, from designing data collection to reporting results.\n\nBy being responsive to each community's distinct characteristics and by involving individual community stakeholders in an evaluation design\, you are more likely to hear authentic experiences\, concerns\, and results. A key assumption in community-responsive evaluation is that people hold different kinds of expertise (i.e.\, community\, cultural\, technical\, issue-specific\, organizational\, etc.) that are all valuable to the research process. Drawing on examples from The Improve Group's work and asking you to bring a community or example of your own work to craft a plan\, through this training session you will learn why this approach is important including messages you can use to convince others of its merit and how to implement it.\n\nLearning objectives include:\n\n Learn the importance of including community in your evaluation.\n Learn how to identify diverse program stakeholders to include in an evaluation.\n Learn concrete strategies for engaging these stakeholders in evaluation\, including through convening advisory groups\, hiring evaluators directly from community\, and hearing the different ways that people describe issues and problems.Offered by our partner\, Minnesota Council of NonprofitsThis event will have AI captions via Zoom's transcription function. Please note that these captions are automatically generated by the computer software and may not always accurately transcribe what is said. If you need professional captioning\, or have another accessibility accommodation\, please email MCN's program assistant with your request at least two weeks prior to the start of the event. Although we will attempt to meet all accessibility requests\, late request may not be fulfilled. \nAbout the PresenterThis session will be led by The Improve Group's experts in evaluation capacity building. The Improve Group is a St. Paul-based\, international consulting firm focused on research\, evaluation\, and strategic planning. For nearly 20 years The Improve Group's consultants have been helping nonprofits measure and demonstrate impact\, which in turn leads to improved services\, innovation\, and increased support. The Improve Group team has worked with hundreds of nonprofits and helped many of them build their internal capacity for designing and carrying out evaluations. With a team approach to developing training\, The Improve Group draws on a broad range of on-the-ground experiences\, providing participants applicable tips and examples of why and how to conduct evaluations in their organizations. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Evaluation helps organizations assess their progress toward the goals they&rsquo\;ve set\; articulate their challenges and successes\; and identify areas for improvement. However\, evaluations frequently suffer from understanding gaps which can limit the value of the findings. Evaluations that engage stakeholders benefit from multiple perspectives and honor different types of expertise. The Improve Group&rsquo\;s Community-Responsive Approach (SM) ensures that the unique perspectives of all affected communities and stakeholder groups are represented in every phase of the evaluation process\, from designing data collection to reporting results.
By being responsive to each community&rsquo\;s distinct characteristics and by involving individual community stakeholders in an evaluation design\, you are more likely to hear authentic experiences\, concerns\, and results. A key assumption in community-responsive evaluation is that people hold different kinds of expertise (i.e.\, community\, cultural\, technical\, issue-specific\, organizational\, etc.) that are all valuable to the research process. Drawing on examples from The Improve Group&rsquo\;s work and asking you to bring a community or example of your own work to craft a plan\, through this training session you will learn why this approach is important&mdash\;including messages you can use to convince others of its merit&mdash\;and how to implement it.
Learning objectives include:
&bull\;Learn the importance of including community in your evaluation.
&bull\;Learn how to identify diverse program stakeholders to include in an evaluation.
&bull\;Learn concrete strategies for engaging these stakeholders in evaluation\, including through convening advisory groups\, hiring evaluators directly from community\, and hearing the different ways that people describe issues and problems.
Offered by our partner\, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
This event will have AI captions via Zoom&rsquo\;s transcription function. Please note that these captions are automatically generated by the computer software and may not always accurately transcribe what is said. If you need professional captioning\, or have another accessibility accommodation\, please \;email MCN&rsquo\;s program assistant \;with your request at least two weeks prior to the start of the event. Although we will attempt to meet all accessibility requests\, late request may not be fulfilled. \;
About the Presenter
This session will be led by The Improve Group&rsquo\;s experts in evaluation capacity building. The Improve Group is a St. Paul-based\, international consulting firm focused on research\, evaluation\, and strategic planning. For nearly 20 years The Improve Group&rsquo\;s consultants have been helping nonprofits measure and demonstrate impact\, which in turn leads to improved services\, innovation\, and increased support. The Improve Group team has worked with hundreds of nonprofits and helped many of them build their internal capacity for designing and carrying out evaluations. With a team approach to developing training\, The Improve Group draws on a broad range of on-the-ground experiences\, providing participants applicable tips and examples of why and how to conduct evaluations in their organizations.
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