Presentations, handouts, etc.
Welcome to Evaluating Community Impact 2015: Montreal. We are pleased you've joined us on this 3-day adventure with our learning community. Here you will find all of our presentations, handouts and extra resources. Take these back to your organizations and communities and share around!
Resource Type: Publication | Author: Mark Cabaj
5 Simple Rules for Evaluating Collective Impact explores the challenges evaluators face in developing concepts and methods that are useful for the complex work of community change. Recognizing that Collective Impact has amplifies this challenge, Mark Cabaj recommends 5 simple rules for how to do this.
Resource Type: audio seminar | Speaker: Mark Cabaj
In this webinar, Mark Cabaj, Tamarack Thought Leader and Principal of Here to There, explores six simple rules for evaluating collective impact, the implications for practitioners, funders and evaluators, as well as examples of collective impact evaluation in action.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Tom Kelly and Paul Born
At Tamarack, we consider the Theory of Change Methodology to be one of the most significant for understanding to large scale collaboration. Listen as Tom – one of the key Thought-Leaders at Tamarack's 2013 CCI: Accelerating Impact in Edmonton in October 2013 – shares from his experience using this methodology.
This library resource includes reflection and evaluation publications from the ECI 2013 event in Calgary, AB. These publications present participants feedback through thought provoking questions and comments. This reflection will help design, shape and implement ECI 4.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
Module #1 – Welcome and Opening provides an overview of the 2013 Evaluating Community Impact Workshop and identifies the “burning questions” that it will explore. The framework for establishing a Learning Community amongst participants is also introduced.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
Module #2 – Understanding Community Change & Outcomes from the 2013 Evaluating Community Impact Workshop explores the complex nature of community change; how patterns of community behavior can be changed; and, dominant pathways for how this change occurs.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
Module #3 – Developing a Framework for Community Change from the 2013 Evaluating Community Impact Workshop introduces participants to the Theory of Change framework using tools and case studies.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
In Module #4 – A New Orientation to Evaluation, participants at the 2013 Evaluating Community Impact Workshop are introduced to the concept of evaluative thinking, common biases that interfere with evaluation.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
In Module #5 –Evaluating Population Level Change, The case for why population level outcomes and indicators are important is made and methodologies and resources to support such evaluations are shared.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
In Module #6 - Shared Measurement, participants at the 2013 Evaluating Community Change Workshop were given an overview of performance measurement systems and asked to consider shared impact through a collective impact lens.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
In Module #7 – Understanding and Measuring Policy Change, participants of Tamarack’s 2013 Evaluating Community Change workshop learn about approaches to measuring policy change.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
In Module #9 – Attribution and Contribution Analysis, participants of Tamarack’s 2013 Evaluating Community Change workshop learn about how to attribute observed changes to specific interventions and/or factors.
Resource Type: Publication | Authors: Hallie Preskill and Tanya Beers of FSG
This Report, a joint publication by FSG and the Center for Evaluation Innovation, makes an important contribution to the overlapping fields of social innovation, evaluation, and philanthropy by surfacing how Developmental Evaluation should be employed by philanthropists.
Resource Type: Podcast | Speaker: Kathy Brennan
In this podcast, Kathy Brennan, Director of Evaluation at Living Cities in the US shares about the work of Living Cities, the integration initiative and the evaluation process they have undertaken. There is amazing work happening in 5 cities across the US and an innovative approach being used by Living Cities.
