Are you part of a network or collaborative initiative that is tackling a complex community challenge?

With the increasing push for evaluation, collaboratives face the difficult task of incorporating evaluation into their day-to-day work with only minimal resources to do so. Collective Impact models are also challenging stakeholders to identify shared outcomes.

With limited time, evaluation can become a peripheral part of service and program delivery – a check on the funding checklist – rather than a tool of significant value for making improvements in environments of complexity. In response to this struggle, concepts such as strategic learning have emerged as a way to integrate evaluative thinking into the work of nonprofits for improved learning and decision-making. But how does strategic learning work in practice, and can it provide a feasible and useful way of fostering learning in nonprofit organizations and collaboratives?

Through six full-day sessions, Eval Lab participants will explore strategic learning (and related concepts) within a flexible co-learning environment and test them in their day-to-day work.

The fee for participating in Eval Lab is $1000.00. This fee covers two participants from your agency or collaborative and is subsidized by a grant from FCSS. Once you have been accepted into the Eval Lab, ECVO will invoice you for the fee. We estimate that you will also need to dedicate approximately 16 hours a month to the lab outside the sessions themselves.

The deadline for applications is Sept 13, 2019.