Charmagne Campbell-Patton

BME Community Gathering - March 2023 - Glocal Competency for Learning as You Go

Join us for our monthly BME community gathering, where we will be hearing from Keiko Kuji-Shikatani about how she thinks about the Glocal Principle in the context of her work in Canada. We will then break into smaller groups to explore the concept of glocal competency and how we can all continue to build our own knowledge and skills to support zooming in and zooming out to support "learning as we go."

February Gathering of the U-FE / Blue Marble Evaluation Community

Join us as we explore the new directions for Utilization-Focused Evaluation through Blue Marble Evaluation.

This month, we will be providing a space for Q&A with Michael Quinn Patton, founder of Blue Marble Evaluation, as well as time for BME members to connect with one another. We will also talk about how the Blue Marble Evaluation community might collaborate to contribute to the upcoming American Evaluation Association conference call for proposals.

A Blue Marble perspective on intergenerational evaluation for transformation

As part of Youth in Evaluation Week, this event will bring together perspectives, stories and lessons from our collaboration working on the Food Systems Summit to explore how intergenerational evaluation can be informed by, and inform, the principles of Blue Marble Evaluation. In particular, we will explore the following principles and questions:

Monthly Gathering of the U-FE / Blue Marble Evaluation Community

Join us as we explore the new directions for Utilization-Focused Evaluation through Blue Marble Evaluation. These monthly gatherings will be less one-way webinars and more conversations, case examples, fishbowl-style consulting and opportunities to learn and connect.

Gatherings will take place on the Third Thursday of the month at 9am CST / 3pm UTC.

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The Revolution will not be Evaluated

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This week, we feature the words of evaluator Rodney Hopson, "The Revolution Will Not Be Evaluated." Written in 2017 as "an ode to Gil Scot-Heron, Michael Scriven, and the future of evaluation," this poem calls into question the role of evaluation in movements for social change. What can we, the Blue Marble Evaluation community, learn from this poem? We invite you to share your thoughts and perspectives here.

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Solutions Salon

I had the pleasure of facilitating a "Solutions Salon" at the Minnesota International NGO Summit in Minneapolis last week. This was a space for evaluators to share their challenges and to workshop and crowd-source possible solutions. We explored challenges with regards to use, measurement, methods, technology and culure in the context of International development.

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