Principle 9. Yin-Yang

Harmonize conceptual opposites.

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Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises & Principles

This book introduces Blue Marble evaluation, which provides a framework for developing, adapting, and evaluating major systems change initiatives involving complex networks of stakeholders.

Author

Michael Quinn Patton

Year

2019

Webinar

Learning as you go: Becoming part of the solution as a Blue Marble Evaluator navigating the pandemic

What are we learning in this pandemic? We are seeing that individuals matter: individual actions have reverberating consequences. We are also seeing that systems matter: how systems act to address the pandemic and protect peoples have dire consequences for the individuals that live in society and for the rest of us around the blue marble.

Webinar

Principles-Driven Responsive Philanthropy: Building Bridges Across Communities for Peace, Prosperity and Planet

This webinar will provide an in-depth look at how one foundation applied the Blue Marble Evaluation to their work.

Blog post

Reflection on Curves: Pandemic curves, climate curves, social justice curves, and humanity’s learning curve

It seems like a long, long time ago when the clarion call for managing the coronavirus pandemic was flattening the curve, but it was only seven months ago. In this blog, Michael explores what Blue Marble Evaluation lessons can we extract from the impact of the curve?

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BME Book Club - Chapter 9

Event

BME Book Club - Chapter 8

Join Michael and your fellow Blue Marble Evaluation Network members for a conversation about Chapters 8 & 9 of Blue Marble Evaluation Premises & Principles. This conversation is only open to BME members. Click here to join the online discussion and access the link for this live conversation.

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Book Review: Blue Marble Premises and Principles

Summary: Michael Quinn Patton’s Blue Marble Evaluation is a forward-looking, path-breaking, and timely contribution to evaluation theory and practice. The title of the book evokes the Blue Marble shot—a photograph of the whole earth taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972. The preface of the book displays the first image of our lonely planet captured from space in 1968 (Earthrise).

Author

Robert Picciotto, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Year

2020

Webinar

An elusive BME ideal: Harmonizing South/North interests, worldviews and frameworks

This webinar highlights, with examples, three major issues related to North-South and South-South dynamics, and consider what these mean for the mindsets and competencies with which we commission and do evaluation.

Yin-Yang Principle

Harmonize conceptual opposites.

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Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises & Principles

Learning as you go: Becoming part of the solution as a Blue Marble Evaluator navigating the pandemic

Principles-Driven Responsive Philanthropy: Building Bridges Across Communities for Peace, Prosperity and Planet

Reflection on Curves: Pandemic curves, climate curves, social justice curves, and humanity’s learning curve

BME Book Club - Chapter 9

BME Book Club - Chapter 8

Book Review: Blue Marble Premises and Principles

An elusive BME ideal: Harmonizing South/North interests, worldviews and frameworks

Yin-Yang Principle