"Moving the needles" on community-wide issues requires cross-sector coordination and an engaged community.

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As a participant, you will have the opportunity to:

• Identify the dynamics and patterns of community change 
• Strengthen your understanding and appetite for evaluation 
• Explore a variety of evaluation approaches and tools appropriate for community change

This workshop is designed for you if you:

• Desire new ways to evaluate change in your community 
• Are involved in efforts to ‘move the needle’ on homelessness, poverty, health, environmental sustainability, immigration and early childhood development issues – and other elements of a healthy community
• Provide leadership and support to evaluation efforts and want to increase knowledge, skills and capacity

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What you'll learn

Key themes addressed during the workshop will enable participants to understand the unique approach to evaluating large-scale community change initiatives. These themes include:

• Models and dynamics of community change including Theory of Change
• The core concepts of evaluative thinking, utilization focused evaluation, and developmental evaluation
• The critical differences between traditional program evaluation and the evaluation of community change evaluation
• The unique challenges of assessing community change e.g. ‘measuring’ systems change, dealing with unanticipated outcomes, attributing outcomes to change activities, and participatory sense-making
• Evaluation Planning Tools e.g. evaluation scope of work, utilization-focused checklist, developmental evaluation checklist
• Outcome Evaluation Tools e.g. Most Significant Change, contribution analysis, multiple perspectives exercise, outcome mapping, splash and ripple

Questions? kirsti@tamarackcommunity.ca

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What’s the difference between a plan that’s put into place and one that’s put on a shelf? People. If you want something to show for your hard work, you need to build strong local leadership and grassroots support. This webinar will focus on how to grow effective local leaders who can nurture volunteers, corral resources and build the public support that can move community design or planning work from paper to practice.

Join Milan Wall from the Heartland Center for Leadership Development to learn about their research on keys to thriving communities and effective leadership. Milan will describe characteristics of effective local leaders, roles and responsibilities to guide community action, and tips for recruiting new leaders in a changing world.

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This call is part of a capacity-building series offered jointly by CommunityMatters and the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design.

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Speakers

Milan Wall, Co-Director of the Heartland Center for Leadership Development
 

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Warren Nilsson

11:00am-12:00pm Pacific, 2:00-3:00pm Eastern

• Warren Nilsson, senior lecturer in social innovation, University of Cape Town (UCT) Graduate School of Business; faculty member, UCT Bertha Centre for Social Innovation
• Tana Paddock, coordinator, Organization Unbound
• Marlon Parker, social entrepreneur and founder, Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs)

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Tana Paddock

How can you build a capacity for innovation within your social purpose organization? Organizations that excel at social innovation tend to have in common one apparently simple practice: They pay a great deal of attention to the inner experiences of the people who work in them.

Please join SSIR on February 5 as Warren Nilsson and Tana Paddock discuss the theory and practice of "inscaping"—their term for the work of drawing on personal experience to generate the raw material of social change. Nilsson and Paddock will present examples and insights from specific organizations that use inscaping to foster innovation "from the inside out."

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Marlon Parker

Joining them for the webinar will be Marlon Parker, founder of RLabs, a social enterprise based in Cape Town that promotes community-driven innovation in 21 countries.

The webinar will build on Nilsson and Paddock's article "Social Innovation From the Inside Out," in SSIR's Winter 2014 issue. There will be time for Q&A during the last 20 to 30 minutes of the webinar, which will be moderated by SSIR Senior Editor, Michael Slind.

This webinar is for people at nonprofit organizations, foundations, and other social purpose groups who want to create internal processes that will help to build a deep, long-lasting capacity for innovative thought and action.

Learn more about this webinar and register here. To view previous webinars in the SSIR Live! webinar series, go to https://ssir.org/.

Regina Starr Ridley
Publishing Director
Stanford Social Innovation Review

P.S. Away from your desk on February 5? That's OK! Register and you can view this webinar on-demand three hours after the live event ends.