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What Does Our Community's Growing Diversity Have To Do With Evaluation?
The Colorado Trust engages Community Science to help answer this question
Like many areas of the
country, Colorado's racial and ethnic populations have grown more diverse,
particularly through an increase in immigrants and refugees. The Colorado Trust
wanted to ensure that its grant making and evaluations continue to evolve to better serve
people of myriad cultures. With that goal in mind, they engaged Community
Science to help deepen their understanding about what it takes to do a cross-culturally competent evaluation.
Ensuring a Cross-Culturally Competent Evaluation: The Journey Continues is the second part of a two-part series about such evaluations,
funded by The Colorado Trust and written by Community Science's Kien Lee.
It offers insights to help guide the complex dynamics between evaluators,
funders and stakeholders of different cultures. The report gives useful
examples of where cross-cultural competency is critical in evaluation and
recommends questions and strategies that an evaluator should consider when
practicing this form of cultural competency.
Community Science is committed to evaluations that are responsive to the growing diversity of our communities.
The Colorado
Trust has a long-standing commitment to evaluating the effectiveness of its
grant making. It has boosted its efforts to incorporate culturally competent
practices to reflect a changing population.
To view the report in its entirety, click here (PDF file). The first report in the series is available for download here (PDF file).
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NEW CLIENT: The Partnership for a Drug-Free America
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Community Science to evaluate effectiveness of Parents: You Matter! for this nationally known organizationCommunity Science was recently hired for a 10-month engagement with The Partnership for a Drug-Free America to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the Partnership's "Parents: You Matter!" program -- a community education presentation designed to educate parents of 12- to 17-year-olds about adolescent substance abuse, as well as provide tools and resources to prevent it. For more information on this program, click here. |
Team Players: LaKeesha N. Woods, Ph.D. |
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Making a Difference: Community Science Pitches in to Help a Local Family
On March 23rd, 13 members of the Community Science team pitched in with Habitat for Humanity to give a local Maryland family a new start -- and a new home.
Working together, the Community Science team got hands-on. |
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At Community Science, our group practice of social change professionals is committed to building healthy, just, and equitable communities by providing:
- Advisory Services
- Capacity-Building Products and Services
- Initiative Management and Support
- Research and Evaluation Services
Connecting Knowledge with Social Change |
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Community Science's award-winning research and development group helps philanthropic, nonprofit and government organizations use science to build the capacity of communities to innovate and implement solutions to complex social problems. We bring to this work a unique ability to apply the science of community, a participatory and collaborative approach to problem solving, a culturally diverse staff and a commitment to social justice and equity.
This ensures that our work is a true reflection of research turned into real results.
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Out And
About: CS in the Community
- Principal Associate Kien Lee
was recently appointed by Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley to
be part of an eight-member Commission to study
the impact of immigrants in Maryland.
In March, Principal Associate
Ricardo
Millett delivered the Mary E. Corcoran Endowed Lecture at the
Minnesota
Evaluation Studies Institute 2010 conference, "If Social Betterment Is
the
Goal, Are Evaluators Leading the Way?" Click here to read what Dr. Millett had to say.
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What's Happening:
| Colorado's Neighborhood Liaison Forum - David Chavis and Joy Amulya discussed the importance of building and measuring a sense of community in Colorado. Dr. Chavis has written about the five strategic factors for building community in this article and for measuring a sense of community here.
For more information about the study of a sense of community, visit
senseofcommunity.
AEA/CDC Summer Institute
Registration is open!
Institute to be held in Atlanta, June 13-16, 2010. For information, click here. |
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