Karen Scanlon

Principle: Impact Culture & Shared Measurement @NPCthinks

[Karen Scanlon @KarenScanlon18]

@Inspiringlmpact Happy 10th Birthday @Inspiringlmpact! You've inspired me in many ways by providing me with guidance, tools & resources that I could apply in practice and enabled me to develop new skills in shared evaluation through #yiflearning. Thanks @Inspiringlmpact

[Inspiring Impact @Inspiringlmpact]

After a decade supporting voluntary organisations to improve their impact practice, Inspiring Impact will close in early 2022. Whether you’ve used our resources, come to an event, or were a partner, please share your experiences in this survey: https://t.co/imBiFzCisZ

[The Centres @ YMCA George Williams College @Centres_GWC]

🧵Evaluation of #YIFLearning found that the quality of provision and young people’s experiences play a critical role in developing social and emotional learning skills - @cypnow

🔗https://t.co/1Ykj0FRGbI

[Karen Scanlon @KarenScanlon18]

It's been a good week for hearing how findings & recommendations from our YIF Shared Evaluation @NPCthinks @YouthImpactUK are being considered by youth workers, evaluators & those advocating for more investment in youth provision. https://t.co/211LntNKEi

[Data4GoodFest @Data4GoodFest]

If you want to map your #data but don’t know your OCSI from your ONS, take a look at @j_bowles great guide to mapping your data, based on his talk at the #Data4GoodFest

https://t.co/0WeMQYJnnK #tools #dataanalysis

[Inspiring Impact @Inspiringlmpact]

NEW: Our latest newsletter is here. It includes details of the Inspiring Impact evaluation and info on using creative methods to gather data and feedback. Read it here: https://t.co/ogOg4PeqsU Plus, you can sign up to receive the next one here: https://t.co/r7hHhfMXPS

[NPC @NPCthinks]

Covid lockdowns have made the work of loneliness charities much harder. We've published some tips to help your remote project tackle loneliness, drawing upon our evaluation of the Building Connections Fund: https://t.co/dT3ayeFaPq

#LetsTalkLoneliness

[Karen Scanlon @KarenScanlon18]

Shared theories of change provide a unique way for organisations to understand how they collectively create impact. They also provide the foundation from which to build shared measurement approaches @NPCthinks Great example from @YouthImpactUK based our shared #yiflearning

[Kelly Bradshaw-Walsh @BradshawWalsh]

Very pleased to share our theory of change for open access youth provision based on learning from the Youth Investment Fund. Thanks to all those who contributed! https://t.co/gzZCstEnIP

[Karen Scanlon @KarenScanlon18]

It's a good day for data! Whilst my colleague @rosiemc1eod presented on the 5 types of data organisations can use to evidence their theory of change, @NPCthinks and @YouthImpactUK publish our largest ever shared evaluation using 5 types of data #yiflearning

[Data4GoodFest @Data4GoodFest]

What data can you collect to support your theory of change? The five types of data recommended by @rosiemc1eod of @NPCthinks:
1) User data
2) Engagement data
3) Feedback data
4) Outcomes data
5) Impact data

#Data4GoodFest

[NCVO @NCVO]

30 bills have been announced in today’s speech, a number of which will affect charities.

Read our new blog - #QueensSpeech: What charities need to know https://t.co/oDP5jBg5F0

[NPC @NPCthinks]

To learn more about open access youth provision, and NPC and @YouthImpactUK’s shared evaluation of the Youth Investment Fund, take a look at this new dashboard. It provides an interactive overview of our findings #YIFlearning: https://t.co/MvA53Bg6tF

[Karen Scanlon @KarenScanlon18]

Demonstrating the impact & value of open access youth provision was once considered the pursuit of the "holy grail"...but with our friends @YouthImpactUK we've established a credible shared measurement approach that the youth sector can build on #yiflearning @NPCthinks

[Karen Scanlon @KarenScanlon18]

Our findings from #yiflearning show that open access youth provision promotes equity - with greater growth in social & emotional skills among young people who need it most. Youth provision clearly has a key role to play in Britain's covid recovery @NPCthinks @YouthImpactUK

[Karen Scanlon @KarenScanlon18]

Proud today to publish findings from our shared evaluation of the Youth Investment Fund with our partners #youthimpactuk which highlights how open access youth provision significantly improves the social & emotional learning skills https://t.co/UKtkCgzyWV

[Power2 @Power2org]

Delighted to be chosen to receive @TheSocialInvest and @EnterpriseEDP help via @youthimpactuk to develop and test Power2 services with new and expanded partners – which will lead to greater organisational resilience and many more young people receiving wellbeing support. #socinv

[Lloyds Bank Foundation @LBFEW]

2/ This year, we’ll be awarding a total of £9.5m in unrestricted grants, ⭐️at least 25% will be ringfenced for Black, Asian and minority ethnic led #SmallButVital charities⭐️

[Ria Chatterjee @RiaChatter]

New: Youth services ‘fighting for survival’ under pandemic & the ‘devastating impact’ on young people.

@UKYouth research reveals:

- 64% orgs at risk of closure in next 12 months
- 62% spent some/all financial reserves
- 66% report increased demand as YPs mental health suffers

[NPC @NPCthinks]

How can a charity share power with its service users when it doesn't even share power within its organisation? Show The Salary campaigns for salaries on charity job ads, to help combat inequity and redress power imbalances in the sector. More in this blog: https://t.co/jp1NzQWWKo

[Charity Evaluation Working Group @ChEW_UK]

Happy New Year Everyone! we're kicking off 2021 reflecting on 2020 and our work on equitable evaluation. Looking forward to being a change agent in 2021? Read our new blog from board member @DRSalisbury https://t.co/Nmu0nvHI02

[NPC @NPCthinks]

Covid-19 catapulted us into an era of widespread systems change. Or did it? Seth Reynolds on why the system has shifted, not changed. We must now think about the luggage we want to take with us from the old system and the baggage we want to leave behind: https://t.co/ArVVTE6uTp