The Funder & Evaluator Affinity Network: Call to Action Series

In the fall of 2019, five Action Teams of volunteers from FEAN membership assembled around practice areas chosen collaboratively by the FEAN members as areas most urgently in need of change: Strategy & Practice, Evaluators of Color, Knowledge Sharing, Global Challenges, and Collaboration & Partnership. Over the course of 2019 and 2020, the five teams developed products which propose tangible steps to make change in the field. The products were shared with the field in a webinar series with Grantmakers for Effective Organizations in 2021.

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Series Editor: Carise Mitch, Equal Measure

Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Making Evaluations More Useful for Foundation Strategy and Practice

Lead Authors:

Sarah Stachowiak,  ORS Impact
Nikki Kalra, ORS Impact
Kim Ammann Howard, The James Irvine Foundation

 

 

 


Evaluation Is So White: Systemic Wrongs Reinforced by Common Practices and How to Start Righting Them

Lead Authors:

Fontane Lo, Blue Shield of California Foundation
Rachele Espiritu, Change Matrix

 

 

 

 


Knowledge Sharing is a Mission Imperative: Why We Cannot Afford to Keep Evaluation Findings to Ourselves and How We Can Do Better

Editors:

Janet Camarena, Candid
Ashleigh Halverstadt S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation

 

 

 

 


Advancing Global Evaluation Practice to Meet the World’s Challenges: A Call to Action and Reflection

Lead Authors:

Heather Britt, NORC at the University of Chicago
Clare Nolan, Engage R+D

 

 

 

 


Better Together: How Evaluator Collaborations Can Strengthen Philanthropy and Increase Collective Knowledge

Lead Authors:

Kendall Guthrie, Independent Consultant
Yvonne Belanger, Barr Foundation
Rachel Mosher-Williams, RMW Consulting Group, LLC