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December 3, 2024

A principles-based community health center for addressing refugee health: the New Canadians Health Centre

December 3, 2024

EvalByte: AEA 2024 Reflection

December 3, 2024

EvalByte: Cultivating Safe Spaces

December 3, 2024

What We Heard: Advancing Meaningful Evaluation in the Field of Early Childhood

August 16, 2024

Evaluation Capacity Network: Fall 2023 Partner Report

December 3, 2024

EvalByte: Journeys through Early Learning and Childcare: The Experience of Cultural Minority Families

December 3, 2024

EvalByte: Journeys through Early Learning and Childcare: Experiences of Ethnocultural Families (Part 2)

August 16, 2024

Evaluation Capacity Building Survey Results

August 16, 2024

Evaluating Ourselves: What We Learned

August 16, 2024

Evaluating Ourselves: A Summary of Findings from the Second Year of our Partnership Evaluation

December 3, 2024

EvalByte: Tackling Challenge Areas in Evaluation

December 3, 2024

EvalByte: The All in For Youth Initiative: Year 6 Evaluation

December 3, 2024

EvalByte: LaboEval

December 3, 2024

EvalByte: ECN Partnership Evaluation Year 2

August 16, 2024

EvalByte: Indigenous Evaluation Network (IEN) Summit 2024

August 16, 2024

EvalByte: Helping Nonprofits Navigate a Complex World Through Strategic Learning

August 16, 2024

EvalByte: Evaluating an Innovative Model of Experiential Co-Learning

August 16, 2024

EvalByte: Documenting the Development of the New Canadians Health Centre (part 2)

August 16, 2024

EvalByte: Documenting the Development of the New Canadians Health Centre

August 16, 2024

EvalByte: Building Evaluation Capacity with Diverse Needs in Alberta’s Mentoring Sector

August 16, 2024

EvalByte: Childhood Educator Wage Grid

August 16, 2024

EvalByte: Alberta Compensation Framework Project

August 16, 2024

EvalByte: Creating Workforce Stability in the Early Learning and Child Care Sector

August 16, 2024

Culturally Responsive & Decolonizing Evaluation: A Network Conversation

August 16, 2024

EvalByte: Weaving Indigenizing and Decolonizing Approaches Into Community-Based Evaluations

August 16, 2024

EvalByte: Bringing Awareness to Children, Youth, and Families’ Mental Health During the Pandemic

August 16, 2024

CUP Impacts 2022: Evaluation Capacity Network

August 16, 2024

Advancing Evaluation Practices in the Field of Early Childhood Development

August 16, 2024

Relieving the Data Burden

A new call to action addressing the issue of "data burden" faced by community organizations

August 16, 2024

Weaving Together Accountability and Learning in Complex Situations

Mark Cabaj, President of Here to There, shares his thoughts on evaluating complex issues - a "wicked challenge"

August 16, 2024

UEval: A New Model of Evaluative Learning

“Evaluation is key to unpacking what works, why it works and what is needed to establish long-lasting change”

August 16, 2024

UEval 2.0: Good News to Technophobes

Five key takeaways from our experience transitioning UEval online this year.

August 16, 2024

Terra Brentwood Project: Developing a Model of Supportive Housing for Teen Parents

The ECN, Terra Centre, and Brentwood Housing Society partner to address a complex social issue

August 16, 2024

What does Evaluation Mean to You?

A blog post from our trainees, sharing unique perspectives around what evaluation means to them

August 16, 2024

Promoting Evaluative Thinking in Everyday Practice: Eval Lab 2.0

An interview with Dr. Bethan Kingsley, an Eval Lab facilitator and former ECN postdoctoral fellow

August 16, 2024

Project Spotlight: The Manitoba Northern & Rural Institute in Evaluation

An Interview with ECN co-investigator Dr. Javier Mignone

August 16, 2024

It Takes a Village to Build Evaluation Capacity!

What actions can organizations take towards building evaluation capacity? Btissam El Hassar, ECN trainee, share her thoughts.

August 16, 2024

It's All About the Principles

Teresa Mejia, Project Manager for the All in for Youth evaluation, reflects on the principles-focused approach

August 16, 2024

ECN Member Spotlight: Susan Hopkins

Susan Hopkins, Executive Director of The MEHRIT Centre and ECN collaborator, talks about the value of the network

August 16, 2024

ECN Trainee Spotlight: Mischa Taylor

Mischa Taylor, ECN graduate trainee, reflects on her experiences with evaluation

August 16, 2024

Bringing Thinking & Learning into Strategy & Planning: Eval Lab 3.0

A sneak peek to Eval Lab 3.0 and five key attributes of strategic thinking.

August 16, 2024

Developmental Evaluation

What is developmental evaluation and why would I use it? Julia Roy, ECN trainee, shares her thoughts.

August 16, 2024

Creating Workforce Stability in the Early Learning and Child Care Sector

August 16, 2024

Co-Investigator Spotlight: Dr. Leslie Fierro

An interview with ECN co-investigator Dr. Leslie Fierro

August 16, 2024

5 Insights from Taking a Principles-Based Approach to Measurement

Ryan Lacanilao from Alberta Health shares his reflections on principles-based evaluation

August 16, 2024

UEval: Bringing Community-Based Experiential Learning to the Evaluation Classroom

August 16, 2024

Evaluation in the Field of Early Childhood Development: A Scoping Review

August 16, 2024

Mapping Evaluation Use: A Scoping Review of Extant Literature (2005–2022)

August 16, 2024

Responding to the Evaluation Capacity Needs of the Early Childhood Field: Insights from a Mixed Methods Community-based Participatory Design

August 16, 2024

Developing an Evaluation Capacity Building Network in theField of Early Childhood Development

August 16, 2024

Competency-Based Evaluation Education: Four Essential Things to Know and Do

August 16, 2024

Evaluation Capacity: A Critical Tool for Social Innovation