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 »

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 …

DRAFT GBEN Affiliate Week: Surprise!  You’re a CEO Now! by Min Ma and Luba Falk Feigenberg Read More »

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 …

GBEN Affiliate Week: The Affiliate is the Organization by Sarah Faude and Danelle Marable Read More »

Greetings evaluation community! We are Libby Smith, Stephen Porter, Ayesha Boyce, Gabriela Garcia, Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro, Dana Wanzer, and Aisha Rios, members of the Evaluation 2022 Equity working group. Over this past week of posts you’ve heard from some of the most exciting voices in evaluation as they reflected on equity, decolonization, and liberation in and …

Evaluation 2022 Equity Working Group Week: Reflections on the (Re)imagining Equity, Social Justice and Decolonization Town Hall by Libby Smith, Ayesha Boyce, Stephen Porter, Dana Wanzer, Gabriela Garcia, Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro, and Aisha Rios Read More »

Greetings! I am Dr. Laura Peck, Principal Scientist at Abt Associates and Global Director for Abt’s Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Capability Center. My expertise is in the design, execution, and analysis of impact evaluations that leverage experimental and quasi-experimental designs to estimate impact that have a causal interpretation. I ask that those of you familiar …

Evaluation 2022 Equity Working Group Week: Embedding an Equity Focus in Experimental Evaluations by Laura Peck Read More »