Presenter:
Annette L Gardner, PhD, MPH, Principal, ALGardner Consulting
Jared Raynor, MS, Director, Evaluation & Learning, TCC Group
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Annette L Gardner, PhD,
MPH, formerly an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral
Sciences and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the
University of California, San Francisco. She has considerable evaluation expertise
and has designed, directed and served as an advisor on national, state and
local evaluations focusing on expanding access to care, insurance coverage
expansions, the adoption of health information technology, and expanded
advocacy capacity. She was the Director of the 8-year evaluation of The
California Endowment's Clinic Consortia Policy and Advocacy Program that paved
the way for advocacy and policy change evaluation more broadly. A political
scientist with academic interests in federalism, community empowerment and
health care reform, she is a thought leader on advocacy and policy change
evaluation. Dr. Gardner has aggressively championed for deepening evaluator
understanding of policymaking and advocacy. She has been a frequent presenter
at the American Evaluation Association Annual Meeting (since 2003) and served
as a Co-Program Chair and Co-Chair of the Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation
TIG. In 2017, she and Claire Brindis, DrPH recently co-authored the definitive
book, Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation: Theory and Practice
(Stanford University Press).
Jared
Raynor, Director, Evaluation & Learning, brings a natural and no-nonsense approach to evaluation, capacity building,
performance management, and organizational development, seamlessly guiding
clients through complex issues in a diverse array of sectors and content areas.
Equally at ease with members of congress, youth advocates, foundation program
officers, and nonprofit executive directors, he is motivated to ensure diverse
voices are heard, understood, and lifted up in a way that guides
decision-making at multiple levels.
Description:
Several
factors have fueled the need for skilled evaluators that can design appropriate
advocacy and policy change (APC) evaluations: increased foundation interest in
supporting APC initiatives to achieve transformational, systems-level change;
evaluation of democracy-building initiatives worldwide; and diffusion of
advocacy beyond the traditional advocacy community. And evaluators have met
these needs with great success, building a new field of evaluation practice,
adapting and creating evaluation concepts and methods, and shaping advocate, funder
and evaluator thinking on advocacy and policy change in all its diverse
manifestations. During this Coffee Break, Annette Gardner and Jared Raynor,
long-time APC evaluators, will provide a
taste of their advocacy and policy change evaluation workshop which is intended
to expand evaluator capacity to design tailored advocacy and policy change
evaluations, as well as help them navigate a turbulent and changing advocacy
arena. They will describe their approach to bringing together curated concepts and
unique measures, the designs and insights from real-life initiatives, and data
on nonprofit advocate evaluation capacity.
Come and increase your advocacy evaluation knowledge!
Date:
Tuesday, October 18th, 3:00 - 3:25 PM EDT