Presenters

• Charmagne Campbell-Patton, Director of Organizational Learning & Evaluation

• Michael Quinn Patton, Founder & CEO of Utilization-Focused Evaluation
  

This session will provide attendees with a new way to design and implement evaluation in support of ongoing learning, adaptation and innovation. Developmental evaluation guides innovation and adaptation in complex settings by providing ongoing and timely feedback to inform decision-making, deepen learning, and support adjustments as the action unfolds. The ADAPT framework for developmental evaluation calls on evaluators and implementors to work together to be Agile, Dynamic, Actionable, Principled and Timely. In this session, we will introduce the framework and share examples of how it can be applied in a variety of international contexts.

Presenter
Gretchen Villegas, CEO of Nexus Strategy and Growth Partners LLC

Mission-driven organizations must focus on diversifying fundraising pathways in order to ensure continued impact.  Learning Goals: 1) Varied fundraising pathways to consider, 2) How to leverage funds to raise more dollars, and 3) How for-profit thinking can maximize your fundraising efforts. The outcomes of this workshop will be 1) Apply learnings to own organizations fundraising strategies and 2) Increase impact through increased fundraising dollars.

Presenter
Stacy Barnes, Co-Director of Alight U.S

At Alight, we practice localization to honor and unleash the abundance we see in the communities where we work. During this interactive session we’ll share more on how we use human centered designed co-creation to influence our local approach and share practical tips on how organizations can use these methods to be more intentional, integrated, and impactful.  We’ll reveal our “secret sauce” to co-creation which emphasizes the importance of: 1) Operating close to our customers and their environment. 2) Supporting and promoting local abundance. 3) Co-creating to develop localized solutions and approaches. 4) Building local capacity to help create sustainable, resilient, and thriving communities. 5) Using insights to influence our program design and program improvements. Following participation in our workshop, we hope that attendees will leave with a better understanding of how co-creation can achieve localization and how to practically apply these techniques in various contexts.