Presentations

In a session designed for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Evaluation Fellows at the conclusion of their year-long program, BTW’s Managing Director Lande Ajose, Ph.D, provided the emerging evaluation professionals with an overview of trends, settings and methods in social impact evaluation, with a special emphasis on what it means to conduct culturally responsive evaluation. Dr. Ajose engaged the RWJF fellows in exploring the choices and principles involved in determining their own professional paths as they sharpen their evaluation practice for the next stage of their careers.

February 10, 2010

9:00a.m.-12:00p.m.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

300 Second Street

Los Altos, California 94022

Open to: RWJF Evaluation Fellows

Kim Ammann Howard and Jennifer Curry Villeneuve will be presenting to funders of family foundations through Northern California Grantmaker’s (NCG) Family Philanthropy Exchange. The session will help foundations with limited staff and resources determine how to get the information needed for evaluation, and how to assess one’s own capacity for evaluation as well as those of grantees. The session will draw on a wide range of evaluation experiences that include assessing, developing and sustaining the evaluation capacity of funders and their grantees, taking into account the unique challenges that face family foundations. The session also will include sharing of best practices among grantmakers, evaluators and nonprofits; one funder’s experience working with grantees to enhance capacity; group discussion and question and answers about specific issues facing participants; and resources to help participants transfer their learnings into action.

January 20, 2009

9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

The Stewart Foundation

101 Second Street, Suite 1100

San Francisco, CA 94105

Open to: NCG Members

To sign up, contact Angela Jones or call 415.777.4111 ext. 15