One of our continued learnings in our evaluation practice is the importance of leaning into the unique skills and assets that both internal and external evaluation teams bring. This is especially important as we are forced to make agile decisions in an unstable funding and policy environment.

D+S Collaborator, Elizabeth Whitcher sits down with the Healing Together Project to learn how they’ve used and adapted the Story+Data Map to welcome their partners into planning

This report offers considerations that funders, in particular, should be aware of when designing place-based funding mechanisms that require meaningful collaboration and partnership across sectors.

Data+Soul is the journey, commitment, and practice of holding ourselves (evaluators) accountable for continuous self-reflection and learning when implementing culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE)—all within the context of systemic challenges.

During the last year of funding for a sexual health program for Black and Brown young adults (18-25 years old) in Boston, the program team at Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) - Health Services contracted MXM Research Group to conduct an evaluation.

At MXM Research Group, the social justice issues we work on are cross-cutting - they're rarely confined to a single topic area and most require multi-sectoral collaboration.

How do we evaluate systems change? When I think about systems change, let alone evaluating it, I sometimes don’t know where to start.