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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 »
This post is about the Greater Boston Evaluation Network’s (GBEN) journey to forming and growing as a non-profit. This post is written by Min Ma, President of GBEN, and Luba Falk Feigenberg, member of the DEI Committee. As a volunteer-driven organization we strive to match our vision of a diverse and inclusive community of evaluation …
Hello and welcome to the Greater Boston Evaluation Network (GBEN) take-over week! We are Dr. Sarah Faude (she/her), Director of Research and Evaluation at YW Boston, and Danelle Marable (she/her), Director of Evaluation and Data at Beth Israel Lahey Health and we are both members of the GBEN Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. GBEN is …
