Archives: Evaluation

Friday, May 18, 2018

Top 5 Elements of a Successful CCE Partnership

Written by Mitchell White-Richard, CFICE Volunteer and edited by Alexandra Hine, CFICE Administrative Research Assistant Since the beginning of the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project, we have been working with our partners to study how to improve community-campus engagement partnerships. Community-campus engagement... More

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Top 5 Elements of a Successful CCE Partnership

by Mitchell White-Richard, CFICE Volunteer Since the beginning of the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project, we have been working with our partners to study how to improve community-campus engagement partnerships. Community-campus engagement (CCE) can include community-based research, community service learning, and... More

Friday, December 16, 2016

Report: Community Environmental Sustainability Hub Evaluation Synthesis

Over the course of 2016, CFICE's hubs engaged in a systematic evaluation to figure out what we've learned from Phase I of CFICE. This evaluation report synthesizes and summarizes the findings from the Community Environmental Sustainability (CES) Ottawa Hub, lead by Patricia Ballamingie at Carleton University. The creation of this report involved... More

Monday, November 7, 2016

Taking a Good Look at Ourselves: Evaluating the Work of the CFICE Evaluation and Analysis Working Group

By Magda Goemans, Evaluation and Analysis Working Group RA At our recent Program Committee meeting on October 25, members of CFICE working groups got a chance to participate in a developmental evaluation exercise, which helped us to refine intended goals and ways of working as we continue our respective journeys within the CFICE project.... More

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Webinar: Learning and Accountability – Evaluating CFS Hub Projects

In this webinar, presented on October 24, 2013, Ted Jackson, initial Principal Investigator of the CFICE project, discusses evaluation practice and options for community-campus joint projects, particularly with respect to evaluating the Community Food Security Hub's projects. This webinar was recorded and is provided online by Food Secure Canada.... More

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Webinars: Theory of Change

Before CFICE members dove into hub work, we reviewed how to create and make use of a project Theory of Change. A few members of the CFICE team provided presentations and webinars on Theory of Change. You can find the PowerPoint slide decks for these presentations below. Click on the images of the slides... More

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Working Paper: Rigour in Methods and Evaluation of Community Engagement

Early in the CFICE project PhD candidate Chris Yordy took on the task of exploring evaluation of engagement options. Topics include: Rigour and the Multiple levels of quantitative and qualitative analysis Rigour in methods and post-positivist paradigm shifting, and evaluation and Rigour in defining theory of change Please view the full... More

Friday, October 25, 2013

Evaluation Article: Eyes Wide Open: Learning as Strategy Under Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty

Eyes Wide Open: Learning as Strategy Under Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty.  An article that explores "three common 'traps' that hinder foundations' capacity to learn and... More

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Community Academic Collaborative Hosted by Food Secure Canada

The Community Academic Collaborative is a network of academics and food actors (non-profits, community organizers, farmers and more) who are all working and thinking together about how to improve the collaborative research we do together, so that it serves the interests of our communities and contributes to advancing the food systems we want.... More

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