collective impact

Roadblocks to Change Within Collective Impact Initiatives and How Evaluators Can Help by Elayne McIvor

Hi there! I’m Elayne McIvor, an evaluation consultant with Catalyst Consulting.  We support non-profits, government agencies and foundations to create social change more effectively and efficiently. Over the last decade, we have seen extensive uptake of the ‘Collective Impact’ (CI) approach in attempt to solve complex social problems at scale. I’ve had the opportunity to …

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ACM TIG Week: Collective Impact Meets Networked Improvement Science by Don Glass

Hi! I’m Don Glass a learning designer and developmental evaluator. I’ve had the privilege of being on the Kennedy Center‘s internal Research and Evaluation team for several years. Of special interest to me has been working with our collective impact initiative to develop shared measurement for equitable access to arts learning opportunities. It has become …

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LaRED TIG Week: Chocolate Cake Making: How the Mission Promise Neighborhood implements the Collective Impact Approach as a recipe to achieve results by Liz Cortez

(Spanish version)  Hi, I’m Liz Cortez, Associate Director of the Mission Promise Neighborhood (MPN) Initiative at the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. My career has always focused on advancing social justice by working with communities of color to improve outcomes in financial stability and education. I am …

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Guiding Collective Impact through Evaluation by Teresa McCaffrey

Hello! My name is Teresa McCaffrey and I am the Director of Research and Evaluation at the Educational Partnership Center (EPC) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The EPC consists of 10 programs, working with over 11,000 underserved middle and high school students each year. Housing multiple programs with similar goals provided us with …

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BECOME Week: Tania Rempert on Evaluating Neighborhood Networks

Good Day!  I am Tania Rempert from PIE Org, a strategic partner of Become.  We specialize in evaluation capacity building for non-profits that otherwise could not afford high quality rigorous evaluation services. Lately, we have been lucky enough to work on some collective impact projects, to provide capacity building support to a whole cadre of …

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CP TIG Week: Amy Hilgendorf on Evaluating the Community Impact of Collective Impact

Hi! My name is Amy Hilgendorf and I am the Associate Director for Engaged Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies (the CommNS). We specialize in community-based action research and evaluation partnerships with grassroots and nonprofit groups and offer support to others who do this work. In recent years, we …

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CP TIG Week: Brian Hoessler on Finding The Best of Both Worlds

My name is Brian Hoessler, and I am the founder and principal of Strong Roots Consulting in Saskatoon, Canada. Actually, my business cards refer to me as Connector-in-Chief, because that’s how I see my evaluation and research work with non-profits: connecting questions with data, dreams with designs, and plans with reality. I also see my …

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