What’s New

In the Field

• We are excited to begin strategy formation work with NextCourse
• Jara facilitated Northern California Grantmaker’s New Grantmaker Institute
• Jill and Nicole are preparing an evaluation report for the Latino Community Foundation’s Children and Youth Initiative reflecting learning and impact from four years of this initiative
• Nicole is leading an Evaluation of the Horizons Foundation POCIBLE program
• We continue to support strategy formation and planning efforts of East Bay Community Foundation, First 5 Marin and RYSE Youth Center

In Person

• Jara led a session titled Putting Your Passion into Action — Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Programs that Make a Difference during the 5th Annual Silicon Valley Peninsula Nonprofit Forum
• Jara and Jill are presenting two workshops at The California Endowment’s 2012 Organizational Learning and Evaluation Conference in San Francisco (and you don’t need a consultant to do them):
  • Understanding and Applying Logic Models for Program Evaluation; and
  • 5 Tips to Put You on the Path to Being an Evaluative Organization

Of Note...

• Check out Jara’s blog for a series of posts on 5 Evaluative Practices
• Coming soon: Our new model for approaching strategy and planning work!
• We are working on a chapter on Data Visualization and Evaluation for New Directions in Evaluation

Now That’s Interesting...

• Nonprofit Quarterly: Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation: Are They Potentially in Conflict?