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The Collection
Welcome to The Collection Room!
Peruse this cozy nook with its shelves and sunlight peeking in. You’ll find guidebooks, reports, booklets and more from partners, and get a sense of what others are sharing. See what grabs your interest, pull up a chair and check it out.
REPORT
The Importance of Culture in Evaluation
In this report Colorado Trust explores three key characteristics that affect interactions among people and how these are critical considerations in a cross-culturally competent evaluation.
REPORT
Building an Internal Learning Culture in a Foundation
Key insights from Foundation interviews, a literature review, and recommendations are offered in this brief guide by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
REPORT
Asking the Right Questions: A Tool for Initiative Planning and Adaptation
This brief by Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and Colorado Health Foundation explores, What constitutes evidence? and more. It invites shared inquiry as related to strategy, with framing (p. 7-8) explicitly outlining the tool’s relation to racial equity.
Publication
Shifting the Evaluation Paradigm: The Equitable Evaluation Framework™
This joint publication of EEI and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) invites reflection on what might be possible if evaluation was re-imagined, and shares learning from six Practice Partners as they engage with the EEF.
REPORT
The california endowment
This 15-page paper by Hanh Cao Yu, et al (The CA Endowment) explores Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) principles, frameworks and practices, and makes recommendations for advancement. (March 2017)
GUIDE
A framing outline intended to support learning opportunities in which Practice Partners (PPs) are engaged in related to the EE Framework. Offers common messaging on a shared vision and encourages PP and participant reflection.
READING / PAPER
This paper summarizes findings from a literature review conducted during the EEF Project. It shares practices in equity work and the intersection of equity and evaluation in foundations as the next step to advance racial equity work.
GUIDEBOOK
The california endowment
Toward making the shift to multicultural evaluation, this 65-page guide by The CA Endowment is organized into 4 main sections relating to key stages in conceptualizing and commissioning an evaluation (Jan. 2005).
ACTION GUIDE
Annie E. casey foundation
This action guide by AECF embraces equity as its focus and can provide useful grounding for advancing the EE Framework. It outlines 7 steps to advance and embed race equity and inclusion within an organization/ foundation,"starting right where you are with the people around you.
REPORT
Colorado Health institute
This report by the Colorado Health Institute, while not focused explicitly on evaluation, includes some elements related to EEF principles (Aug. 2019).
CASE STORY
Building Healthy Communities
This Case Story chronicles the work funded through the Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative in Sacramento to advance the health of boys and young men of color (BMoC). The intent is to shed light on a facet of the initiative that is addressing the systems of oppression that negatively impact BMoC by empowering youth, dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline, and shifting resources from incarceration to prevention. Its approach includes equitable research and writing practices (Feb. 2019. By LPC Consulting, Contact Tiffany Wilson, tiffany@lpc-associates.com, 916 448-8026).
GUIDE
The recommendations in this working guide, prepared by Child Trends and supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, aim to fill a gap in resources that help researchers approach their work with a racial and ethnic equity lens (October 2019).
REPORT
ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION
This recent report, developed with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and other organizations, aims to teach researchers, evaluators, and funders how to better support boys and men of color.
“While I might want to think about EEF all day (and I kind of do), that’s not the reality for most people, and we need to accommodate that. Questions we need to consider as we continue to move forward: What is a reasonable pace for this work? What is an equitable way to share learning? How do we share the power in this evaluation work?”
— Trilby Smith, Vancouver Foundation
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