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Designing Research with Intention: Culturally Responsive, Trauma-Informed, and Humanizing Strategies to Engage Youth

Conducting research study interviews with youth who have experienced significant life challenges — homelessness, intimate partner violence, childhood abuse, or other traumas — demands a delicate, compassionate approach

By |2023-11-28T11:59:39-05:00October 31, 2023|Blog, Youth Engagement, Leadership & Success|Comments Off on Designing Research with Intention: Culturally Responsive, Trauma-Informed, and Humanizing Strategies to Engage Youth

The Sustainability Case: Paying Explicit Attention to How and Why Nonprofits Engage and Include Different Perspectives

An organization’s health, success, and longevity – that is, it’s sustainability – is more achievable when it invests time and resources to become more diverse and inclusive and pays explicit

By |2025-02-18T10:28:01-05:00October 9, 2023|Blog|Comments Off on The Sustainability Case: Paying Explicit Attention to How and Why Nonprofits Engage and Include Different Perspectives

Making Community Engagement Transformative: Lessons Learned for Those Who Really Want to Build and Shift Power

There has been a recent resurgence in supporting greater community engagement by foundations, government agencies, and nonprofits

By |2023-09-13T09:41:34-04:00September 12, 2023|Blog, Community Engagement and Power Building|Comments Off on Making Community Engagement Transformative: Lessons Learned for Those Who Really Want to Build and Shift Power

The Journey Continues: Making the Evaluation Profession More Culturally Responsive and Competent

In 1997, several influential evaluators who represented the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s leadership got together to discuss how to diversify the evaluation profession and create a pipeline for evaluators from underrepresented populations. An initiative was conceived, funded by the Kellogg Foundation, advised by an AEA committee, and implemented by Community Science (at that time, it was called the Association for the Study and Development of Community).

By |2025-02-18T11:52:24-05:00June 1, 2023|Blog, Evaluation & Learning Capacity Building|Comments Off on The Journey Continues: Making the Evaluation Profession More Culturally Responsive and Competent

Evaluation, Learning, and Continuous Strategy Improvement in Service of Racial Equity: What’s Different About It?

Since the summer of 2020, the use of hashtags to signal the support of communities impacted by structural racism is no longer the limit that organizations will go.

By |2024-07-02T11:20:33-04:00March 13, 2023|Blog, Research and Evaluation|Comments Off on Evaluation, Learning, and Continuous Strategy Improvement in Service of Racial Equity: What’s Different About It?

What Evaluators Mean When They Talk About ‘Lived Experience’

Since the summer of 2020, the use of hashtags to signal the support of communities impacted by structural racism is no longer the limit that organizations will go.

By |2024-07-02T11:21:36-04:00December 20, 2022|Blog|Comments Off on What Evaluators Mean When They Talk About ‘Lived Experience’

A Multi-Racial Collaborative Brings Together Leaders and Communities of Color to Advance Racial Justice on Local and National Levels

For too long, communities of color have been harmed by narratives that divide rather than unify. These stories are perpetuated by systems of White supremacy to keep communities at odds, such as the falsehoods that immigrants steal jobs, Black people are criminals, and all people of color should aspire to be like Asian Americans.

By |2022-07-05T11:15:45-04:00May 25, 2022|Blog, Capacity Building and Learning Systems, Community & Systems Change|Comments Off on A Multi-Racial Collaborative Brings Together Leaders and Communities of Color to Advance Racial Justice on Local and National Levels

Public Agencies are Driving Equity in All Transportation Policy Decisions, Acknowledging More Work Must Be Done

Decisions in the transportation field have often harmed Black [...]

By |2022-01-21T14:34:16-05:00December 16, 2021|Equitable Community Development|Comments Off on Public Agencies are Driving Equity in All Transportation Policy Decisions, Acknowledging More Work Must Be Done

Three Ways Community-Based Organizations Can Support Youth Returning to School in the Face of the Growing Concerns around the COVID-19 Pandemic

Learn how your CBO can help address the safety and security of students as they return to school.

By |2021-11-03T18:55:14-04:00November 2, 2021|Blog, Health and Behavioral Health Equity|Comments Off on Three Ways Community-Based Organizations Can Support Youth Returning to School in the Face of the Growing Concerns around the COVID-19 Pandemic
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