Doing evaluation in service of racial equity

Description

Evaluators help measure the effectiveness of change efforts that impact the lives of children and their families every day. Local leaders, funders, nonprofits, academic institutions and other change agents use evaluation to demonstrate successes, test new models and refine strategies to create more equitable communities. How do we know that the formula for change works? Where do evaluators begin when they want to conduct evaluation to advance racial equity? To help answer those questions and in response to the past few years’ global outcry for racial justice, we commissioned three racial equity practice guides with tools to help evaluators debunk myths, diagnose biases and systems and deepen community engagement in their evaluation endeavors. This series is designed to help evaluators exercise their own agency to better use their expertise to advance racial equity and improve the services they provide to clients and the communities they support. These three practice guides are easy-to-use resources that help evaluators integrate racial equity principles into their daily work. Each guide includes meaningful definitions, innovative models, real-life case studies and reflective learning exercises.