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ACE Network 2024 Professional Development Series
Expanding the Bench® (ETB) is offering the Professional Development Series for ACE Evaluation Network Members, LEEAD Alumni, & LEEAD Scholars!
ACE Evaluation Network Member Nicole Robinson, PhD will be leading a two-hour, interactive session for evaluators who are supporting movement leaders, grassroots advocates, and organizers. In our time together we will talk about evaluating policy and advocacy campaigns within larger social movements, specifically the steps evaluators take to document and understand the political context.
Other themes that will be discussed: Black radical imagination, counter-movements, co-optation, and infiltration.
Interviews and Talks
Watch Nicole give a talk on Capitalism and Evaluation
Watch Eleanor interview University of Michigan Professor Ron Eglash on generative justice, AI, and non extractive economies
Political Context
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Advocacy Evaluation
"Ten major global forces are fixed within the current political context: racial capitalism, neo-slavery, neoliberalism, white supremacy, neofascism, neocolonialism, neo-feudalism, imperialism, corporatism, and radical imagination. These forces have been under examined in the current advocacy evaluation practice, creating missed opportunities for evaluation as a tool for liberation."
Read A radical arc in systemically documenting political context in advocacy evaluation here
"I will always remember where I was and what I was feeling on election night during the surprise win of Donald Trump. Furthest from my mind was evaluation even though I have been an evaluator for over ten years. His election changed the political context in America and abroad."
Read The Political Context: Paradoxical Observations by Nicole Robinson here
Public Health
"Our call for papers encouraged student perspectives that envisioned, challenged, and critiqued the future for health education and behavior."
Read Public Health Students’ Perspectives on the Future of Public Health Education here
Philanthropy
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Grant Making
"Too often grantmakers, decision-makers, and program evaluators do not understand the day-to-day realities of people living in the communities with unrelenting social, political, racial, and economic inequity those they seek to impact."
Read Shifting Grantmaking and Evaluation Practices in the Pursuit of Equity here
Neoliberalism
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Capitalism
"Evaluation warriorship, as defined by ¡Milwaukee Evaluation! Inc., links the practice of evaluation learning, reflection, and storytelling to the evaluator’s social responsibility as a warrior for justice."
Read Evaluation Warriorship: Raising Shields to Redress the Influence of Capitalism on Program Evaluation here
"We present a single case study on the long-term efforts of ¡Milwaukee Evaluation! Inc., the AEA Local Affiliate in Wisconsin, to recenter social justice in evaluator training and education."
Read Design principles for recentering social justice in evaluation training and disrupting whiteness and neoliberalism here
Abolition
"EJP recently received a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A portion of the money is being used to fund a three-year evaluation of the program. Ginsburg said the goal is to figure out how EJP can measure its success through both qualitative and quantitative data."
Read What’s The Value Of A College In Prison Program — Beyond Recidivism? here
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