Evaluation Network of Rhode Island

I’m Dan Turner, Ph.D., and I serve as the Assistant Director of the Community-Engaged Data and Evaluation Collaborative (CEDEC) at the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. A recently launched initiative, CEDEC connects campus, nonprofit, and public agency partners, leveraging Brown’s resources to advance data and evaluation capacity in …

ENRI Week: Fostering learning and capacity building in data and evaluation through campus-community partnerships by Dan Turner Read More »

My name is David Stanton Robinson, EdD. As the President of DSRobinson & Associates, I have over 35 years of expertise in consulting and evaluation in the mental health, early childhood education, healthcare, and higher education sectors. I’ve collaborated with Rhode Island public health groups, and I’m a member of the Evaluation Network of Rhode …

ENRI Week: Promoting Equity Through AI: A Game-changer in Evaluation and Consulting by David Stanton Robinson Read More »

My name is Jennifer Latham and I am the Evaluator for Rhode Island’s Health Equity Zone (HEZ) Initiative and a graduate student at Brown University. Working with the HEZ, I have gained a mindset for evaluation that aligns with a community-led, place-based vision of health equity. I truly enjoy the evaluative challenge of my role …

ENRI Week: Evaluation of Upstream Public Health Initiatives Often Continues to be Reduced to Downstream Health Outcomes, Giving Little Importance to Critical Metrics of Social Change by Jennifer Latham Read More »

Hello, I am Cynthia Roberts, PhD, evaluator at the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV). Over the last nearly ten years I have been leading the evaluation of our Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded work in the primary prevention of intimate partner violence. I am a co-founder of the Evaluation Network of Rhode …

ENRI Week: Practicing into equity in evaluation is a continuous journey of transformation by Cynthia Roberts Read More »

Hello, we are Katie Murray, Jenny Pereira, and Inés Merchan from the Rhode Island Foundation’s Grants and Community Investments team. Our community foundation was founded in 1916 with a gift of $10,000. Last year, gifts totaled $75 million and grants equaled $84 million to 2,000 organizations. In our two largest discretionary programs – funding 140 …

ENRI Week: Shifting Mindsets with the Equitable Evaluation Framework™ by Katie Murray, Jenny Pereira and Inés Merchan Read More »

My name is Adama Brown, and I’m the Director of Research and Data Analytics at United Way of Rhode Island (UWRI). I lead a team that is interested in reimagining impact and the ways that data and narrative inform philanthropic work, acting as a catalyst for systems change. In recent years, UWRI has embraced the …

ENRI Week: A Trust-Based Philanthropy Journey by Adama Brown Read More »

Hi, this is Cynthia Roberts, PhD with Adama Brown, PhD, Jen Latham, Katie Murray, David Robinson, PhD, and Dan Turner, PhD. The Evaluation Network of Rhode Island (ENRI) formed as a group of evaluation colleagues who were seeking to gain collegial support in our professional evaluation endeavors. A group of us first began meeting at …

ENRI Week: Building Trusting Relationships to Create and Sustain a Local Affiliate by Cynthia Roberts, Adama Brown, Jen Latham, Katie Murray, David Robinson, and Dan Turner Read More »