Birds of a Feather sessions are relatively small and informal gatherings designed to build networks and explore ideas. Rather than give a formal presentation, facilitators will prepare questions or ideas around a particular topic for you to discuss.
Portland will be operating on PST time during the conference.
Schedule
Friday, October 25
12:45 PM – 1:15 PM
TIG: Qualitative Methods
Presentation Number: 56
Presentation Name: “When Systems Change Meets Burnout: Qualitative Interviewers to support Community Mobilizers.”
TIG: STEM Education and Training
Presentation Number: 61
Presentation Name: Advancing the Conversation: Uplifting Practitioner Voices in Evaluating Programs at Scale
TIG: STEM Education and Training
Presentation Number: 62
Presentation Name: Amplifying the Voices of Multigenerational and Multidisciplinary STEM Evaluation Journeys - A Roundtable Bridge of Resources and Mentorship
TIG: STEM Education and Training
Presentation Number: 63
Presentation Name: Amplifying Voices, Weaving a Tapestry: A Collaborative Journey in STEM Education Evaluation
TIG: Needs Assessment
Presentation Number: 46
Presentation Name: Assessment of multimodal pulse oximeter needs at primary health care facilities, application of the human-centered design approach in Senegal
TIG: Education Evaluation
Presentation Number: 95
Presentation Name: Brainstorm Ways to Prevent Opt-out of Participation in Student Risky Behavior Surveys and Reporting Survey Results
TIG: Teaching of Evaluation
Presentation Number: 66
Presentation Name: Building the Public Health Evaluation Workforce through a Graduate Student Experience Program: Developing a Student-Informed Applied Practice Training Program
TIG: Independent Consulting
Presentation Number: 40
Presentation Name: Collaboration Over Competition: Navigating the Complexities of Evaluator Partnerships
TIG: Extension Education Evaluation
Presentation Number: 25
Presentation Name: Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks for Supporting Extension Evaluation
TIG: Behavioral Health
Presentation Number: 3
Presentation Name: Considering a Trauma-informed Approach to Evaluation: The Significance of Collaboration and Safety in Evaluation Design to Elevate Community Voice
TIG: Social Work
Presentation Number: 60
Presentation Name: Creating a Network: Evaluators in the Wild
TIG: University-Based Centers
Presentation Number: 72
Presentation Name: Creating multi-generational spaces in a University-based model for uplifting new perspectives in evaluation
TIG: Democracy and Governance
Presentation Number: 15
Presentation Name: Developmental Evaluation as an approach to balance multiple voices
TIG: Behavioral Health
Presentation Number: 4
Presentation Name: Embracing Complexity: Rethinking Race in Behavioral Health Programs through a Postmodern Lens
TIG: Behavioral Health
Presentation Number: 5
Presentation Name: Enhancing Program Evaluation through Engaging Community Partners
TIG: Government Evaluation
Presentation Number: 28
Presentation Name: Evaluating Complex Foreign and Domestic Assistance Programs with At Risk Communities
TIG: STEM Education and Training
Presentation Number: 64
Presentation Name: Evaluating Program Sustainability
TIG: Advocacy and Policy Change
Presentation Number: 1
Presentation Name: Evaluating Risk: A Discussion on Navigating Complex Environments
TIG: Government Evaluation
Presentation Number: 29
Presentation Name: Flocking Together: Navigating complexity in evaluating federally funded projects
TIG: Program Design
Presentation Number: 54
Presentation Name: Framing Evaluation from the Participants' Lived Experience: Applying a Data Equity Framework in Evaluation
TIG: STEM Education and Training
Presentation Number: 65
Presentation Name: GeoQuery: An Open Access Platform for Geospatial Data
TIG: Program Design
Presentation Number: 55
Presentation Name: Government-to-Government Direct Funding: A Tool to Foster Locally Led Development
TIG: Internal Evaluation
Presentation Number: 42
Presentation Name: How do you bring an equitable evaluation lens into your evaluation work as an internal evaluator?
TIG: International and Cross Cultural Evaluation
Presentation Number: 44
Presentation Name: Human Rights Evaluation Networking Session
TIG: Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
Presentation Number: 7
Presentation Name: Identifying & Dismantling Mindsets that Hinder Stakeholder Involvement in Developmental Evaluation
TIG: Needs Assessment
Presentation Number: 47
Presentation Name: Incorporating Community Voice and Data Walks into Needs Assessment
TIG: Behavioral Health
Presentation Number: 6
Presentation Name: Learning from Communities and Provider Voices: The Importance of Using Community Knowledge to Understand Behavioral Health Disparities and Solutions
TIG: Environmental Program Evaluation
Presentation Number: 23
Presentation Name: Let's Learn From and Support One Another: Lessons from Internal Evaluators in Building Culture of Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation (CREE) in an Environmental Organization
TIG: Teaching of Evaluation
Presentation Number: 68
Presentation Name: Leveraging Online Self-Paced Learning to Strengthen the Capacity of Emerging Evaluators
TIG: Community Psychology
Presentation Number: 14
Presentation Name: Liberatory Spiritual Guidance for Social Transformation: How Our Ethics Guide Our Evaluation Efforts
TIG: Health Evaluation
Presentation Number: 32
Presentation Name: Lift Every Voice: Incorporating Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Belonging in Evaluation Practice
TIG: Human Services Evaluation
Presentation Number: 35
Presentation Name: Minding the Gap in Foster Care: Using data-informed needs assessment to drive collective impact outcomes
TIG: Nonprofit and Foundations
Presentation Number: 48
Presentation Name: Mired in metrics and reporting: Shifting philanthropy and government funding to empower learning and action
TIG: Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building
Presentation Number: 50
Presentation Name: Mutual Capacity Strengthening and Transition Thinking to Shift Power to Proximate Actors
TIG: Disaster and Emergency Management Evaluation
Presentation Number: 18
Presentation Name: Navigating Post-event Evaluation Challenges: Amplifying field voices and key processes in large-scale humanitarian assistance
TIG: Internal Evaluation
Presentation Number: 43
Presentation Name: Navigating Tensions Around Data Collection by Multiple Stakeholders of an NSF Study
TIG: Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building
Presentation Number: 51
Presentation Name: On Becoming Undisciplined: How Valuing a Non-Traditional Entrance Into the Field of Evaluation Creates Space for Diverse and Emerging Voices
TIG: Disaster and Emergency Management Evaluation
Presentation Number: 19
Presentation Name: On the Strategy of Emergency Declarations: The 2010 Emergency Declaration on Non-Communicable Diseases as uplifting the voices of the US-Affiliated Pacific Island Region
TIG: Human Services Evaluation
Presentation Number: 36
Presentation Name: One (or more) degree removed: Incorporating community voice into evaluations at the organization level
TIG: Human Services Evaluation
Presentation Number: 37
Presentation Name: Ongoing, Dynamic, and Interactive Evaluations: Practical Guidance for New Policy Standards
TIG: Teaching of Evaluation
Presentation Number: 69
Presentation Name: Positioning evaluator-as-learner: Evaluator and ethnographer co-teaching a program evaluation course from an ethnographic perspective
TIG: Translational Research Evaluation
Presentation Number: 70
Presentation Name: Reframing the Framework: Fresh approaches and novel ideas to using the Translational Science Benefits Model (TSBM).
TIG: Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building
Presentation Number: 52
Presentation Name: Re-Imagining Youth-Led Programs by Centering an Evaluation Framework in a Peer-to-Peer Learning Environment
TIG: Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
Presentation Number: 8
Presentation Name: Retrospective Post-then-Pre Questionnaire Design: Looking Back at What We Learned
TIG: Arts, Culture, and Museums
Presentation Number: 2
Presentation Name: Scientific, Political and Administrative Complexities with Culturally Responsive Evaluation Practices: One Federal Agency’s Reflections
TIG: Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
Presentation Number: 9
Presentation Name: Seeing the Whole Iceberg: Supporting Clients to Embrace Root Causes
TIG: Evaluation Managers and Supervisors
Presentation Number: 24
Presentation Name: Sharing strategies and lessons learned for effectively mentoring and empowering new evaluators
TIG: Feminist Issues in Evaluation
Presentation Number: 26
Presentation Name: ShEvaluator: Raising the next generation of female Monitoring and Evaluation Personnel in Africa.
TIG: Mixed Methods Evaluation
Presentation Number: 45
Presentation Name: Small but mighty: Creatively navigating evaluation constraints to build trust and amplify authentic voices
TIG: Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation
Presentation Number: 58
Presentation Name: Strategies to Promote Evaluation Uptake by Decision-Makers: How to Equip Non-Managerial Staff to Engage in Effective Evaluation Advocacy
TIG: College Access Programs
Presentation Number: 13
Presentation Name: Strengthening Indigenous Student Success—Bridging Equity Gaps
TIG: Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building
Presentation Number: 53
Presentation Name: Strengthening Staff Evaluation Capacity to Enable Continuous Improvement: The Experience of Education Development Center and FEMA National Exercise Division
TIG: Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations
Presentation Number: 16
Presentation Name: Surpassing Q & A: Building Trust in Focus Group Facilitation
TIG: Education Evaluation
Presentation Number: 20
Presentation Name: Systematizing Implementation: Is it Possible to Control for the Uncontrollable?
TIG: Translational Research Evaluation
Presentation Number: 71
Presentation Name: The challenge of using standard evaluation approaches that are not fit for purpose: A case example from the NIH-funded Clinical and Translation Science Award program.
TIG: Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation
Presentation Number: 59
Presentation Name: The Next Big Thing in Evaluation is AI, But for Whom?
TIG: Education Evaluation
Presentation Number: 21
Presentation Name: The Possibilities and Challenges of Applying QuantCrit to School Climate Surveys
TIG: Feminist Issues in Evaluation
Presentation Number: 27
Presentation Name: The situatedness of indigenous knowledge within localization of global development evaluation.
TIG: Graduate Students and New Evaluators
Presentation Number: 30
Presentation Name: Theory Meets Practice: A Discussion of How Current Evaluation Graduate Studies Programs Align with the Practical Field of Evaluation
TIG: Nonprofit and Foundations
Presentation Number: 49
Presentation Name: Theory of Change or Theory of Philanthropy?
TIG: Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations
Presentation Number: 17
Presentation Name: Three Perspectives on How to Empower Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation as Subject Matter Experts
TIG: Human Services Evaluation
Presentation Number: 38
Presentation Name: To Evaluation and Beyond: Moving Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) Beyond Mandatory Data Collection and Toward Systemic Inquiry
TIG: Health Evaluation
Presentation Number: 33
Presentation Name: Tools to Understand Individual and Systems Level Competency to Identify and Address Health-related Social Needs
TIG: Health Evaluation
Presentation Number: 34
Presentation Name: Understanding how research and scientific investments cultivate health equity science: A pilot on the prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) at CDC
TIG: Graduate Students and New Evaluators
Presentation Number: 31
Presentation Name: Ushering in the Next Generation of Evaluators: Strategies and Approaches for Mentoring New Evaluators Early in their Career
TIG: Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
Presentation Number: 10
Presentation Name: Using trauma-informed, survivor-centered, and culturally-rooted methods to evaluate gender-based violence survivor-serving agencies
TIG: Human Services Evaluation
Presentation Number: 39
Presentation Name: Veteran's Voices: Portfolio Evaluation of US Assistance to Ukraine's Veterans
TIG: Education Evaluation
Presentation Number: 22
Presentation Name: Voices in Evaluation: Amplifying Impact in Modern Education
TIG: Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
Presentation Number: 11
Presentation Name: Voicing all Perspectives: Incorporating Family Voices in Evaluations
TIG: Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
Presentation Number: 12
Presentation Name: What Does It Take for an Evaluation to Be Truly Participatory?
TIG: Independent Consulting
Presentation Number: 41
Presentation Name: Where do we even begin when introducing evaluation consulting?
Friday, October 25
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
TIG: Youth Focused Evaluation
Presentation: 73
Presentation: YEEs AS CATALYSTS: BRIDGING THE SKILLS GAP AMONG THE YOUNG AND EMERGING EVALUATORS (YEEs) IN UGANDA.
TIG: Behavioral Health
Presentation: 75
Presentation: “Empowering Women with Children: A Community-Driven Approach to Mental Health through CBPR”
TIG: Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations
Presentation: 86
Presentation: “The School of Hard Knocks” -- Working with (and as) Lived Experience Experts
TIG: Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
Presentation: 79
Presentation: Adding more voices to the conversation of how we measure success: Co-creating outcomes and indicators with communities
TIG: Human Services Evaluation
Presentation: 107
Presentation: Amplifying Lived Expertise on your Team
TIG: Internal Evaluation
Presentation: 114
Presentation: Amplifying More Voices to Fail Forward Faster
TIG: Integrating Technology into Evaluation
Presentation: 113
Presentation: Amplifying New Perspectives: Bridging Innovation and Inclusivity In an AI-Enhanced Evaluation
TIG: Disaster and Emergency Management Evaluation
Presentation: 92
Presentation: An Evaluation of US Disaster Response Program for Promoting Resilience
TIG: Health Evaluation
Presentation: 103
Presentation: An Evaluator’s Role to Support Quality Convening Facilitated by Public Health and Healthcare & Advance Collective Impact and Community Health
TIG: Arts, Culture, and Museums
Presentation: 74
Presentation: Art and Health Equity: A Collaborative Arts-Based (ABE) Evaluation of Rhode Island's Health Equity Zones
TIG: Needs Assessment
Presentation: 118
Presentation: Assessing Community Need on the Community's Terms
TIG: Behavioral Health
Presentation: 76
Presentation: Assessing Training, Coaching, and Practice: Measurement Innovations and Applications in the Evaluation of Wraparound Care Coordination
TIG: Health Evaluation
Presentation: 104
Presentation: Benefits, challenges, and lessons learned from a coordinated umbrella approach to High Impact Program Evaluation Projects at CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention
TIG: Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
Presentation: 80
Presentation: Breaking the one-way mirror: Building participant reflection into evaluation design
TIG: Mixed Methods Evaluation
Presentation: 116
Presentation: Bridging Program Evaluation with Implementation Science: Leveraging the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)
TIG: Mixed Methods Evaluation
Presentation: 117
Presentation: Bridging the Gap: A Review of Fellowship Programs to Enhance Scientist-Policy Engagement in International Development
TIG: Independent Consulting
Presentation: 112
Presentation: Building a Better Evaluation Firm: Structuring Your Consultancy for Social Good as a B Corp
TIG: Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building
Presentation: 121
Presentation: Building service provider competencies in data culture, capacity, and infrastructure to tell the story of their work and amplify community voice
TIG: Behavioral Health
Presentation: 77
Presentation: Challenges and Opportunities for Building Evaluation Capacity with Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Grantees
TIG: University-Based Centers
Presentation: 145
Presentation: Challenges and Opportunities in Evaluating University-Based Centers and Institutes
TIG: Human Services Evaluation
Presentation: 108
Presentation: Challenging Dominant Paradigms: Stories from Three Home Visiting Program Evaluations
TIG: Program Design
Presentation: 126
Presentation: Choreographing Success: The Evaluator and Grant Writer Partnership
TIG: Community Psychology
Presentation: 85
Presentation: Co-learners on whiteness, evaluation and our relationship to land
TIG: Human Services Evaluation
Presentation: 109
Presentation: Collaborations to Improve Paid Family and Medical Leave for Mental Health
TIG: Human Services Evaluation
Presentation: 110
Presentation: Comparing Groups with Different Identity Characteristics to Amplify Equality, Equity, and Social Justice: Considerations for Evaluators
TIG: Behavioral Health
Presentation: 78
Presentation: Consensual Measurement Approach Applied to Agency in Bodily Autonomy
TIG: Internal Evaluation
Presentation: 115
Presentation: Culturally Responsive Frameworks for Internal Evaluators
TIG: Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building
Presentation: 122
Presentation: Developing a learning culture: Stories and lessons from developing learning agendas
TIG: Systems in Evaluation
Presentation: 137
Presentation: Developmental and Systems Change Evaluation in Rural Communities
TIG: Disaster and Emergency Management Evaluation
Presentation: 93
Presentation: Elevating Methodological and Ethical Standards in Monitoring
TIG: Health Evaluation
Presentation: 105
Presentation: Elevating the voice of women using an equitable transdisciplinary approach to define and measure mammographic quality
TIG: Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
Presentation: 81
Presentation: Embodying Equitable Practices in the Formation, Design and Evaluation of Community-Driven Health Equity Initiatives
TIG: Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations
Presentation: 87
Presentation: Embracing neurodivergent evaluators: Lessons learned from cephalopod-based coding solutions
TIG: Nonprofit and Foundations
Presentation: 119
Presentation: Empowering RJ Change Agents: Elevating Youth Perspectives to Guide Restorative Justice Grantmaking
TIG: Program Design
Presentation: 128
Presentation: Engagement in Online Learning: A Participatory Approach to Program Design and Evaluation
TIG: Extension Education Evaluation
Presentation: 99
Presentation: Enhancing Drought Resilience: A Model for Community-Engaged Evaluation in University Partnerships
TIG: Health Evaluation
Presentation: 106
Presentation: Evaluating Health Plan Partnerships
TIG: Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building
Presentation: 123
Presentation: Evaluating Professional Learning Communities - A Skill Building Workshop
TIG: Translational Research Evaluation
Presentation: 143
Presentation: Evaluating the complex array of approaches in the process to translate medical findings into health impacts
TIG: Environmental Program Evaluation
Presentation: 98
Presentation: Evaluating the economic and social impacts of empowering informal waste collectors: Key players in ocean plastics mitigation and the circular economy
TIG: Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
Presentation: 82
Presentation: Evaluation Anthropology Networking Session
TIG: Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building
Presentation: 125
Presentation: Evaluation of a Nonprofit Capacity Building Program
TIG: Education Evaluation
Presentation: 96
Presentation: Exploring Measurement of Student Motivation, Engagement, and Belonging in K-12 Educational Evaluation
TIG: Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations
Presentation: 88
Presentation: Fostering Mentorship, Kinship, and Modeling Approaches for the Next Generation of Underrepresented Evaluators
TIG: STEM Education and Training
Presentation: 133
Presentation: Harnessing Community Strengths for High Quality STEM Education: A Case Study of Rural Empowerment in the Black Belt
TIG: Social Network Analysis
Presentation: 132
Presentation: How GangMembers Lead Violence Reduction Through A Focus on Networks
TIG: Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
Presentation: 83
Presentation: How Internationalizing Higher Education Gave Voice to Foreign-born Students
TIG: Education Evaluation
Presentation: 97
Presentation: Including New Voices in Evaluation: Addressing Challenges from Recruitment and Design
TIG: Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation
Presentation: 130
Presentation: Incorporating unheard voices: Leveraging technology to expand evaluations
TIG: Disaster and Emergency Management Evaluation
Presentation: 94
Presentation: Influence of organizational system on the utilization of M&E Findings among Humanitarian Organizations in Uganda
TIG: STEM Education and Training
Presentation: 134
Presentation: Innovative Approaches to Sensemaking in STEM Projects to Engage Varied Voices
TIG: Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building
Presentation: 124
Presentation: Introducing the Carolina Collaborative for Early Childhood Innovation: Funding a Listening and Evaluation Process to Close the Gap Between Program Designers and Users from Beginning to End
TIG: Graduate Students and New Evaluators
Presentation: 101
Presentation: It Takes a Village: Amplifying Caregiver Voices of Graduate Students Through Career and Community
TIG: Disaster and Emergency Management Evaluation
Presentation: 91
Presentation: Launching a career in humanitarian assistance: how evaluations can engage emerging perspectives
TIG: Human Services Evaluation
Presentation: 111
Presentation: Learning Evaluation Through Doing Evaluation: Guidance & Reflection in Human Services Education
TIG: Translational Research Evaluation
Presentation: 144
Presentation: Man in the Mirror: Reflecting on the Evaluation of Tomorrow’s Medical Research Leaders
TIG: Nonprofit and Foundations
Presentation: 120
Presentation: Measuring Amplified Voices Responsibly
TIG: Feminist Issues in Evaluation
Presentation: 100
Presentation: Measuring the Impact of Women’s Leadership: Now and Next
TIG: STEM Education and Training
Presentation: 135
Presentation: Participatory Processes for Understanding Inclusivity in STEM
TIG: Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations
Presentation: 89
Presentation: Recovery @ Eval 2024 – 12 steps and 12 traditions in program evaluation
TIG: Graduate Students and New Evaluators
Presentation: 102
Presentation: Showing Up in the Work: Reflections on Evaluator Identity in pursuit of Equity
TIG: Teaching of Evaluation
Presentation: 139
Presentation: Symbiotic Fusion: Revolutionizing Evaluation Mentorship with Seasoned Evaluators and AI Professionals"
TIG: Teaching of Evaluation
Presentation: 140
Presentation: Teaching Evaluation through Community-Engaged Partnership
TIG: STEM Education and Training
Presentation: 136
Presentation: The Power of Formative Data to Yield Responsive Programmatic Improvement: Leveraging Student and Program Staff Voice in Evaluation
TIG: Community Development
Presentation: 84
Presentation: The Price of Good Health: Save the Children leverages a Cost of the Diet to Support the Implementation Nutrition intervention in Mali
TIG: Teaching of Evaluation
Presentation: 141
Presentation: Using Digital Escape Rooms to Teach Culturally Responsive Evaluation
TIG: Systems in Evaluation
Presentation: 138
Presentation: Walking The Talk: Evaluating Transdisciplinary Projects and Elevating Community Voices for Systems Change
TIG: Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations
Presentation: 90
Presentation: Weighing the Risks: Considerations for Amplifying Voices of Vulnerable Individuals in Data Collection
TIG: Teaching of Evaluation
Presentation: 142
Presentation: Welcome to Evaluation: An evaluation training program for anyone and everyone
TIG: Program Theory and Theory-Driven Evaluation
Presentation: 129
Presentation: What is the Potential for Realist Evaluation and Synthesis in the North American Social Services Context?
TIG: Social Finance
Presentation: 131
Presentation: What Will It Take to Amplify Evaluator Voices in the Social Finance Sector?: An Emergent Learning Exercise