Kayla Christopherson

(She/her) Associate @Eval_Innovation: systems change, emergence, reimagination / novice at most things, very good at watching TV and hanging out with my cat

[Center for Evaluation Innovation @Eval_Innovation]

The Center for Evaluation Innovation is thrilled to announce our incoming Executive Director: @HanhCaoYu! We are so excited to welcome Hanh as our next leader, effective October 1, 2024, and look forward to her leadership of CEI’s next chapter.
Learn more: https://t.co/9DZDMMIEqB

[S. Bear Bergman @sbearbergman]

Talk about everyone wants a revolution but no one wants to do the dishes. Feminist men, a word: learn to do all those things and DO them. Take the notes. Organize the group gift. Keep track of birthdays. Take the lunch order and call it in. DO a feminism, don’t just say it.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Okay so pay cafeteria workers more. This isn’t complicated.

[allie @apeck422]

This paragraph from Sotomayor’s dissent in 303 Creative is so chilling.

[Center for Evaluation Innovation @Eval_Innovation]

👀 some books to add your summer reading list??? Yes please! 🤓-Philanthropy working collectively toward Disability Inclusion with Sarah Anne Napoli @DisPhilanthropy #GEOLearn.

[Systems Innovation @Sys_innovation]

Complex systems are constituted of a wide variety of actors and factors, to be successful in influencing them we must learn to embrace and work with this complexity - this is what systems change approaches aim to do. This video discusses: https://t.co/8MM8QVahlU

[Center for Evaluation Innovation @Eval_Innovation]

And we're off! 💫

We've launched our newest round of benchmarking research on learning & evaluation in philanthropy and are excited to bring you along.

Read more about our goals and how we're aligning with our values of racial justice & equity: https://t.co/2y03sjrsdU

[Center for Evaluation Innovation @Eval_Innovation]

What does it look like to evaluate advocacy that builds power? How might those most directly affected be at the center of evaluation work?

At CEI and in partnership with @CeedBu, we set out to answer these questions in our newest report: https://t.co/CnIQVN6RRP

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[💀 damned sinker 💀 @dansinker]

SCAB is only four letters, so be sure to skip the Wordle tomorrow.

[NYTimesGuild @NYTimesGuild]

If @NYTimesGuild members don't have a deal soon, we’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Pull out a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.

[The Center for Cultural Power @CultureStrike]

As we enter the last month of the year, we know the burnout is real. We offer you a reminder that rest isn’t earned. Having space to breath and recharge is a human need, not a reward.

Give yourself grace and love and extend that to your community too.

Art: @liberaljanee

[Amanda Hess @amandahess]

We’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.

[Center for Evaluation Innovation @Eval_Innovation]

"Evaluators need to be bolder and take credit for the intrinsic value of evaluation...that's part of our responsibility as evaluators" @jraynor1 👏🏼💙 (#Eval22, Meeting the Moment session)

[Kayla Christopherson @KaylaChristoph]

There’s value in this process, and there’s value in having to articulate them to different audiences.

But if we’re wanting to make grantmaking more equitable, trust-based, and accessible, when do funders need to let go and let the organizations do the work?

[Kayla Christopherson @KaylaChristoph]

In a session at #Eval22 right now talking about developing a number of theories of change over the course of a project’s lifetime for a complex, multi-stakeholder project.

Some thoughts: (1/5)

[Kayla Christopherson @KaylaChristoph]

So at what point does a theory of change stop being a useful tool in making visible the assumptions behind the impact we want to see?

And at what point are funders asking too much of their grantees?

[Kat Abughazaleh @KatAbughazaleh]

Republicans flopped last night because "these women just went crazy".