DChavis

About David Chavis

Dr. Chavis is internationally recognized for his work in the implementation, support, and evaluation of community and systems change initiatives. The focus of his work is equitable community development as a central strategy to promote community resilience, economic and educational opportunities, improved health and well-being, and a more powerful citizenry. He also specializes in the design and implementation of community capacity building systems to bring about sustainable and scaled systems changes.

Community Science Gives Back!

A very important part of Community Science's mission is to directly give back to the local community and support national organizations that promote social justice and equity through donations in service. Each year Community Science staff members recommend a charity for the organization to make a donation on their behalf as their "holiday gift." In 2017, donations were made to the list of organizations noted below.

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The Tragedy of Professionalizing Social Change: We Are the System We Seek to Change

There is little doubt that this country and this world are seeing monumental challenges that we have not seen in decades, if ever. Racism and other forms of hate have become legitimized in many more places than we have seen in a while. There is a rise of authoritarian rule, “bullyism,” and violence against women and minorities. In this country, the basic social contract of a caring state and a common community (e pluribus unum - or “out of many, one”) is being threatened on nearly an hourly basis.

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Algorithms for Equitable Social Impact

Community Science is investing in strategies that leverage the tools of big data science and predictive analytics to improve health and human service systems, programs, and policies. This work is fundamental to what we are all about. We use “state-of-the-art qualitative and quantitative methods . . .

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Evaluation Capacity Building: It’s More Than Just Evaluation

“Information is power,” says Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin of St. Petersburg, Florida, during her welcoming speech at the annual Community Indicators Consortium in November 2017. She was referring to the conference’s theme this year — Information is Power: Data to Support Community Change — where hundreds of data-driven activists gathered to discuss the importance of community data for addressing inequity.

By |2021-01-18T11:25:39-05:00May 2, 2018|Evaluation & Learning Capacity Building|Comments Off on Evaluation Capacity Building: It’s More Than Just Evaluation
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