Hello, we are Nora Prahar from Yunus Social Business (YSB) and Donna Loveridge and Fabiola Lopez–Gomez working with Itad UK Ltd. We have been working together since 2020 to strengthen the IMM framework for YSB’s venture philanthropy fund that invests in social businesses in emerging markets. We did not want to reinvent the wheel but …

Evaluation 2022 New Actors Working Group Week: Standardized IMM Frameworks are Signposts for Your IMM Journey, Not the Destination by Nora Prahar, Donna Loveridge and Fabiola Lopez-Gomez Read More »

Hello! I’m Laura Budzyna, and I’m writing from England, where I’ve just had the pleasure of spending a week as guest faculty for the five-day Oxford Impact Measurement Programme, under the visionary leadership of AEA SIM TIG co-founder Karim Harji. The 42 participants were all grappling with impact measurement (IM) from very different vantage points: …

Evaluation 2022 New Actors Working Group Week: How to Connect Impact Measurement Across Sectors? Anchor in Purpose. by Laura Budzyna Read More »

What’s up, AEA?  My name is Nina Sabarre, PhD, and I’m the Founder & CEO of Intention 2 Impact (I2I), a research, evaluation, and strategy firm known for helping funders and social enterprises measure and maximize their impact. I like to call myself an #evalpreneur, because I work, think, play, and thrive in the chaotic …

Evaluation 2022 New Actors Working Group Week: Lessons from the Intersection of Evaluation x Entrepreneurship by Nina Sabarre Read More »

Hi, my name is Farahnaz Karim and I am the founder and CEO of Insaan Group, and Chief Impact Officer at GOODFOLIO. At Insaan, we invest in solutions to poverty. Our background comes from the monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) ethos of traditional development actors such as non-profits, the UN, and the World Bank, but …

Evaluation 2022 New Actors Working Group Week: How Does Evaluation Look Different for Traditional Actors and Impact Investors? by Farahnaz Karim Read More »

Hi! We’re Shawna Hoffman and Courtney Bolinson: evaluators, members of the Social Impact Measurement TIG, and part of the 2022 conference planning committee.  A core focus of this year’s conference theme is “New Actors” – but who are these new actors, and why should we – as evaluators – care? For decades, governments and nonprofits …

Evaluation 2022 New Actors Working Group Week: Who Are the “New Actors” in Evaluation? An Evaluator’s Guide to Impact Investing, Social Finance, and Beyond by Shawna Hoffman and Courtney Bolinson Read More »

Hello! We are Kelly Washburn (she/her), GBEN Programming Co-chair/Director of Evaluation, MGH Office of Equity and Community Health, and Tiana Yom (she/her/Dr.), Program Director-The Northeastern University Public Evaluation Lab (NU-PEL)/Assistant Research Professor-Health Sciences and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Boston is home to many universities-the 4th most colleges in the US! With so …

GBEN Affiliate Week: Shared Values Can Create Strong Partnerships by Kelly Washburn and Tiana Yom Read More »

Hello! I am Fatima Fairfax. I am getting my PhD in Sociology at Duke University and am a member of the Greater Boston Evaluation Network’s (GBEN) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. In this blog post I’m going to tell you about an on-going discussion group I help host for GBEN members. This was developed …

GBEN Affiliate Week: Making Space for Equitable Evaluation Discussions by Fatima Fairfax Read More »

Hi, we are Ben Faust, Min Ma, and Kathleen Sullivan, representing the Greater Boston Evaluation Network (GBEN) where we serve as members of GBEN’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee. As part of the equity component of GBEN’s strategic plan you read about earlier in the week, we developed principles to guide equitable decision-making in …

GBEN Affiliate Week: Equitable Decision Making by Ben Faust, Min Ma, and Kathleen Sullivan Read More »

Hello and welcome back! I’m Chantal Hoff (she/her), Evaluation Consultant at MXM Research Group and Membership Committee co-chair for the Greater Boston Evaluation Network (GBEN). What are we up to? Following a strategic planning process, GBEN’s Membership Committee currently has three focus areas: 1) Membership, 2) Engagement, and 3) Community-building.  Membership Goals:  Increase the size …

GBEN Affiliate Week: GBEN’s Membership Committee Processes to Create an Engaged, Diverse Membership Organization by Chantal Hoff Read More »

Hello and welcome to the third in a series of articles from the Greater Boston Evaluation Network (GBEN) sharing what we have experienced and learned about running our affiliate. This article is focused on our efforts to incorporate equity concepts into our ongoing planning and operations. I am Noe Medina (he/him) and I serve as …

GBEN Affiliate Week: GBEN’s Equity Plan and Strategies by Noe Medina and Matan BenYishay Read More »