How can learning and evaluation help philanthropy address the challenges of our time? The Funder & Evaluator Affinity Network (FEAN) was hatched on a sunny afternoon at a beer garden on downtown Oakland’s Telegraph Avenue. As two leaders of evaluation firms...
Meg Long
Ties That Bind: A Values-Driven Approach to Evolving Evaluative Practice
[vc_row el_class="sixtysix-thirtythree"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Foundations are grappling with how to address societal challenges deeply rooted in complex systems. At the same time, many foundations are trying to center equity in their work and to be...
Forging Funder-Intermediary-Evaluator Partnerships: Five Tensions to Consider
[vc_row][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Complex change strategies can benefit from the expertise of funders, intermediaries, and evaluators, in addition to community partners. This collective expertise is even more essential today — as more funders...
The Keys to True Social Sector Impact? Evaluation and Continuous Learning
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As stakeholders in the social sector, we all care deeply about impact. We are driven to move the needle on the systemic and social conditions that will improve individual and community outcomes in the fields in which our sector works...