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  • Developmental Evaluation: Panning for DE Gold

    Panning for DE Gold

    Inspiring Communities and its nested initiatives (three collective impact community sites) use a developmental evaluation approach to reflect upon achievements and learnings in real time to help with course adjustments as needed and evolution of planned activities. In October, a Developmental Evaluation report, called a DE Brief, was produced and shared with government partners. While the full 10 page document is chock full of reflection and learnings important to the work of Inspiring Communities, we’d like to pull out just a few highlights and share the summary of impacts identified for the period of July through September 2020.

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    Innovative Evaluation

    Written by Cari Patterson, Director of Research and Evaluation When we work in complexity, we are often evaluating innovation. That means we are looking […]

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    Systems Change During Covid-19 Pandemic

    A reflection by Cari Patterson, Director of Evaluation and Research Inspiring Communities works in a complex environment. Ultimately we are building toward a culture […]