| In a 90 minute Roundtable session, the first
rotation uses the first 45 minutes and the second rotation uses the last 45 minutes.
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| Roundtable Rotation I:
Holding Hands and Not Stepping on Feet: How Evaluators and Foundations Can Work Together to Assist Grassroots and Community Organizations in Seeking Funding and Meeting Grant Requirements |
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Roundtable Presentation 273 to be held in the Slate Room on Thursday, Nov 6, 10:55 AM to 12:25 PM
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Sponsored by the Non-profit and Foundations Evaluation TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Sandra Foster,
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning,
sfoster@mcrel.org
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| Laurie Moore,
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning,
lmoore@mcrel.org
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| Susie Bachler,
Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning,
sbachler@mcrel.org
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| Abstract:
Assisting a foundation to develop a request for proposals for grassroots and community organizations in poverty stricken communities has increased our knowledge of how evaluators can facilitate clients’ approaches to seeking funding. We will draw on experiences such as: creating a Request for Proposals (RFP), streamlining proposal application and review processes, developing evaluation rubrics for proposal reviews, and developing data collection instruments for grantees to use for required internal evaluations. We will discuss our process of reviewing proposals to focus on how evaluators can position themselves to provide assistance to organizations seeking funding. The goal of this presentation is to share lessons learned from this process—specifically the impediments and improvements made in each step of the process as well as ideas for improving clients’ proposals. This information will be useful to other evaluators as they support their clients in both seeking funding and meeting grant requirements.
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| Roundtable Rotation II:
Evaluation Practice in Community-Based Settings: How Can a Private Foundation's Policy on Evaluation Strengthen the Work? |
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Roundtable Presentation 273 to be held in the Slate Room on Thursday, Nov 6, 10:55 AM to 12:25 PM
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Sponsored by the Non-profit and Foundations Evaluation TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Kristin Ward,
Casey Family Programs,
kward@casey.org
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| Jane Yoo,
Results Research,
jane@r-squared.org
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| Abstract:
The Neighborhood Based Prevention Initiative (NBP) is a child abuse and neglect prevention initiative developed between Casey Family Programs and community partners in two communities of Los Angeles. Casey, a foundation whose mission is to provide and improve—and ultimately prevent the need for—foster care, funded a process evaluation of NBP. The evaluators will present key lessons learned from this evaluation effort, emphasizing the role of evaluation in community building and discussing the implications of the evaluation findings on program development and foundation involvement in community-based initiatives. These key lessons highlight the need for foundations to have explicit evaluation policies. In the Roundtable, the evaluators will discuss how evaluation policy in this context could better establish evaluators’ role in internal program development and quality assurance and lend support and legitimacy for stakeholder engagement in the evaluation process for initiatives that are relationship-intensive and stakeholder driven.
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