APHA 139^th Annual Meeting and Exposition

BTW’s Director of Evaluation & Organizational Learning Kim Ammann Howard has been invited to present at the American Public Health Association’s 139^th Annual Meeting. Kim’s session, entitled Building Capacity to Promote Community Health”, highlights BTW’s ongoing evaluation of the Community Clinics Initiative, a joint project of The California Endowment and Tides. The evaluation is focusing on the Community Clinics Initiative’s effort to enhance the capacity of California community clinics to become “Centers for Community Health.” The presentation will feature lessons learned about supporting capacity building that are applicable to those who design, implement and support community health efforts.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Presentation: 11:42 a.m.

APHA 139^th Annual Meeting and Exposition

Washington, DC

For more information or to register for the conference, visit the APHA Web site.

In late 2010, BTW Managing Director Lande Ajose was invited to host a session at the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation’s education grantee convening. The overall intention of the convening was to share evaluation practices to improve programs and increase impact. Lande’s presentation, “Evaluation: Do you have what it takes?” urged grantees to engage in evaluations that are useful to their organizations. She provided grantees with tangible advice to consider when deciding if an evaluation is likely to be effective for their organizations. Lande’s presentation is highlighted in the Convening report.

November 4, 2010

8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

W. Clement and Jessie Stone Foundation’s Education Grantee Convening

Westin O’Hare

Rosemont, Illinois

American Evaluation Association 2010 Annual Conference

At this year’s American Evaluation Association 2010 Annual Conference, BTW Managing Director Lande Ajose and Kristi Kimball, Education Program Officer at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation will hold a demonstration session on how to use the Evaluation Capacity Diagnostic Tool to help organizations assess their readiness to take on many types of evaluation activities. In a second panel session, Lande and Kristi will present highlights from “Measuring the Immeasurable: Lessons for Building Grantee Capacity to Evaluate Hard-to-Assess Efforts.” John Affeldt of Public Advocates will speak about how his organization has used the tool to improve their ability to track outcomes and adjust programs.

November 11, 2010

9:15 a.m – 12:25 p.m.

American Evaluation Association Annual Conference

Grand Hyatt San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas

Open to: Registration is now open for members and non-members

Grantmakers for Education 2010 Annual Conference

BTW Managing Director Lande Ajose and Kristi Kimball, Education Program Officer at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will present highlights from the newly published monograph “Measuring the Immeasurable: Lessons for Building Grantee Capacity to Evaluate Hard-to-Assess Efforts” at the 2010 Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference. Session participants will hear from a funder, an evaluator and a grantee about a newly developed tool and how this approach to evaluation capacity building enables grantee organizations to reflect on and improve their work.

October 27, 2010

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel

New Orleans, Louisiana

Open to: Conference attendees are limited to education grantmakers. To register, visit GFE’s 2010 conference Web page.

California Primary Care Association 2010 Annual Conference

BTW’s Director of Evaluation & Organizational Learning Kim Ammann Howard held a session at the California Primary Care Association’s Annual Conference in October 2010. Along with Marissa Tirona of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services and Brenda Shipp of Lifelong Medical Clinic, Kim presented highlights from recent research on the next generation of community clinic leaders, an especially important topic as the state implements health care reform. This session drew on recent studies that assessed the state of leadership among CEOs and emerging leaders in the California community clinic field as well as the evaluation findings of the Blue Shield of California Foundation’s Clinic Leadership Institute (CLI).

October 7, 2010

10:15 – 11:45 a.m.

California Primary Care Association Annual Conference

Sacramento Convention Center

Sacramento, California

For more information, visit the CPCA’s 2010 conference Web page.