Boot Camp – Measuring Impact
April 1st

How do we know if the work we do in communities is having the desired effect? We need to start by defining what we hope to accomplish through our initiative: outcomes – then develop a plan to evaluate whether the initiative is accomplishing its goals. The workshop will help you define outcomes and ensure they are relevant and prioritized by stakeholders; defining causal pathways that illustrate the logic behind a project design; and theory and practice of program evaluation.

This is a hands-on workshop that introduces frameworks and approaches to program evaluation. Participant should be designing, launching or running an initiative – and plan to begin the process of developing their measurement and evaluation plan at the workshop.

Please contact Alan Harlam (Alan_Harlam@Brown.edu) if you are interested in attending. Include a brief overview of the project you are working on. Space is limited to 20 participants.

About the speaker:
Alison Cohen (’09), a Community Health and Education Policy double concentrator, currently serves as a university-community partnerships advisor for the Swearer Center. Dedicated to community-based program evaluation for change, Alison has done two GISPs and one independent study exploring and evaluating the role of the university in the public interest and student-initiated community efforts at Brown; she also serves as the evaluation advisor for the Mali Health Organizing Project and the Generation Citizenship Project.