Date: April 16, 2024 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00pm PT Format: Online Via Zoom Cost:
Language: English
Engage Your Collaborators with Data Parties
You've been tasked with doing an evaluation and have analysed the data. Your next task is to write a final report...or is it?
What about hosting a data party?
Data parties are a participatory session where you sit down with your partners, collaborators, and other intended users to collaboratively and equitably explore and interpret the initial results. Data parties are an important but often underutilized activity for promoting equity, the uptake of recommendations, knowledge translation, and a learning culture.
Join us for an informative and interactive webinar that covers the who, what, why, when, and how of hosting an online or in-person data party. Using engaging lecture, demonstrations, real-life examples, and breakout discussion, presenter Kylie Hutchinson will share practical tips and techniques for data parties including format options, potential pitfalls, and ways to equitably engage collaborators with your evaluation and research data.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this webinar you will be able to:
Who This Session is For
This session will appeal to both emerging and seasoned evaluators and researchers new to the practice of data parties, as well as nonprofit staff tasked with evaluating their programs and services.
Presenter
Kylie Hutchinson is an independent evaluator and Principal of Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. Kylie's passion is developing practical and timely resources for evaluators and nonprofits. She is the author of three books on evaluation and program planning: Survive and Thrive: Three Steps to Securing Your Program’s Sustainability, A Short Primer on Innovative Evaluation Reporting, and Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned. In 2020, she received the Canadian Evaluation Society's award for Contribution to Evaluation in Canada.