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Creation Cafe
Welcome to the Creation Cafe!
Roll up your sleeves and get ready to do this. This workshop space is where partners are playing with, testing out, and sharing with one another different things they are saying, doing and trying. Be sure to check out the Café’s two special niches - The Language Lab and Sampling Studio - to spark your thinking on what might be possible! As your efforts expand, so will what is available.
In this niche of the Creation Cafe you will mostly find RFP's/RFQ's shared by partners that include language related to aspects of the Equitable Evaluation Framework™ principles.
RFP
This calls for embracing principles of the EEF (page 3), e.g., related to centering participant ownership and utility of results (Missouri Health Foundation).
RFP
In seeking a developmental evaluation consultant for its Climate Change, Health, and Equity Community-based Initiative, Kresge notes “the ideal partner will bring an equity lens to evaluative thinking…” (August 2018)
RFP
This RFP by the MO Foundation for Health (MFFH) for an Expanding Coverage Retrospective Report includes elements related to EEF principles, e.g., multiculturally valid data, effect on different populations (Sept. 2018).
RFP
This RFP by The Amplify Fund seeking an L&E partner specifically references EEF principles in the opening section, along with language on related elements in its body (March 2019).
RFq
In this RFQ for evaluation of the Building and Bridging Power (BBP) to Advance Health Equity, The CO Trust took a number of steps to encourage evaluators (applicants) to reflect on EEF principles (Dec. 2019).
RFP
This RFP for a summative evaluation of the Kresge Innovative Projects Detroit (KIP-D) describes in its introductory framing that “the ideal evaluation partner will bring an equity lens to evaluative thinking…” (Jan. 2019).
RFP
In seeking a developmental evaluation consultant for its Climate Change, Health, and Equity Community-based Initiative, Kresge notes “the ideal partner will bring an equity lens to evaluative thinking…” (Aug. 2018)
HANDOUT
The OCF team crafted guiding evaluative questions to help inform Work Group decisions, with advancing equity woven in and lifted up.
RFQ
This RFQ of Colorado Health Foundation pilots an engaging and lighter lift two-step applicant process of an email introduction and conversation, and includes language/approach related to the EEF.
RFP
This RFP by Oregon Community Foundation includes language naming the EEF™ and that proposed approaches should be aligned with its underlying values.
RFP
This RFP by the MO Foundation for Health (MFFH) for a Preventing Unintended Pregnancy Evaluation indicates the evaluator will be expected to, among other things, execute evaluation efforts using an equity lens, highlighting where disparities (racial, geographic, insurance status, etc.) exist and ensure that all findings and recommendations address these disparities. (June 2017)
This special corner of Creation Cafe is where partners are playing with and testing out approaches to deepen understanding and align practice. This includes some internal ways and related documents (not intended for distribution).
REVIEW GUIDE
A Review Guide developed for internal purposes to assess and rate evaluator applications submitted for Kresge’s FreshLo Implementation Evaluation Phase 1. Aspects relating to the EE Framework principles are included in this rubric approach (Spring 2017).
APPLICATION GUIDE
Vancouver’s L&E developed a LEVEL Internal Grants Program, as short-term Develop Grants (mirroring external grant applicant guide) to generate ideas and build capacity and common ground for shared action and learning by stakeholders. A companion Lunch and Learn was held to promote (Feb. 2019)
POWERPOINT
A Lunch and Learn for staff by Vancouver’s L&E to share about the LEVEL Internal Grants Program, including WHY, e.g., to be more authentic partners in their grantee learning community, opportunity to do their own learning work on racial equity (Feb. 2019).
POWERPOINT
These colorful Visual Notes are from a strategy session by Vancouver on their LEVEL initiative.and to consider EE Framework principles. This included taking a step back and looking forward (What will be different? How will we know?). Created by Drawing Change (Nov. 2019)
POWERPOINT + TABLE
MFFH has been taking a deep dive into its The RIght Time (TRT) Evaluation Plan and thinking through how equity is/is not at its center. This included a PPT to prompt their thinking and facilitate discussion (July 2019).
TABLE
MFFH developed this internal table for its Strategic Planning Committee. It outlines topics, strategies, goals and current evaluation activities across initiatives as a way to identify opportunities for advancing Equitable Equitable Framework principles (June 2018).
Building on this, MFFH crafted a table that helped them map the principles to the different TRT evaluation activities already planned, but even more useful was looking at things they hadn’t thought of or addressed, but when thinking critically about their equity value through the EE Framework lens they were able to identify (Oct. 2019).
REVIEW GUIDE (RUBRIC)
A draft rubric approach (for internal discussion) of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to inform review of evaluation proposals in alignment with the EEF. This includes an earlier version and a later streamlined (p.4) as live documents that will evolve.
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“...Sharing this work while we are actively learning ourselves will help us invite others into the work. We’ve realized that if we are too careful about getting it “right,” we may never move forward, and lose the opportunity to promote inclusion in the learning and culture shift itself.”
— Kim Leaonard, OCF
Hitting pause while pushing forward to embed EE
