Title: Evaluating the Impact of Citizens Sharing Their Gifts – Lessons Learned from Abundant Communities Edmonton
Organizer: The Tamarack Institute
Date: September 14, 2022
This webinar recording features a conversation between our consulting Director of Evaluating Impact, Jean-Marie Chapeau, and Abundant Community Edmonton’s Howard Lawrence regarding ACE’s 2020 impact report. This includes the lessons learned from evaluating the impact of citizens sharing their gifts and how to make evaluation simple and accessible for everyone.
Speakers:
• Connor Judge, Tamarack Institute ([ Ссылка ])
• Jean-Marie Chapeau, Tamarack Institute ([ Ссылка ])
• Howard Lawrence, Abundant Community Edmonton ([ Ссылка ])
Have questions? Contact Connor Judge (connor@tamarackcommunity.ca)
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Overview of the webinar:
0:00 Land acknowledgement (Connor Judge)
1:39 Introduction to speakers and webinar (Connor Judge)
3:26 Question 1: What is participatory evaluation and why do people working at the neighbourhood level need to know about it? (Jean-Marie Chapeau)
10:38 Question 2: What is Asset-Based Community Development and what value does it bring when engaging residents at the neighbourhood level? (Howard Lawrence)
26:49 Question 3: Could you walk us through Block Connector’s Theory of Change, just to provide some context for those on call perhaps unfamiliar with the Block Connector Program? (Howard Lawrence)
35:55 Question 4: Thinking about participatory evaluation, how do we evaluate gift-sharing and measure its impact? How do we tease out the outputs? (Jean-Marie Chapeau)
44:08 Question 5: Relationships seem to be a key piece of both ABCD and participatory evaluation. Howard, do you have any stories of how the relationships that were created between residents from the Block Connector Program were used to inform evaluation? (Howard Lawrence)
49:26 Question 6: What are some of Abundant Communities Edmonton’s lessons learned? What might you change as you prepare for your next impact report? (Howard Lawrence)
51:38 Question from a participant: How can ABCD be done in neighbourhoods where people are very transitory, where people are always moving? (Howard Lawrence)
54:08 Question from a participant: How many blocks / how big of a radius would you suggest to define a neighbourhood? How do you implement the Block Connector Program if you don’t have well-defined boundaries? (Howard Lawrence)
57:08 Closing remarks
