Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events

• November 7-10, 2007: Advocacy Evaluation Events at Annual AEA Conference  
  Baltimore, MD, USA
  American Evaluation Association (AEA) recently launched a new Advocacy and Policy Change Topical Interest Group (TIG). As a result, AEA will be putting a greater focus on advocacy evaluation at their conferences. The new TIG is building a community of practice to help interested evaluators learn about and contribute to new developments in the field.

Details: The TIG will debut at this year's AEA conference, "Evaluation 2007: Evaluation and Learning", sponsoring a series of panels, demonstrations, and other presentations on evaluating advocacy and policy change. AEA members can join the new TIG by going to the AEA website, signing in with their username and password, and then updating their profile. Anyone who is not an AEA member but would still like to hear about TIG-related news should contact a member of the Advocacy and Policy Change TIG by visiting the TIG section of AEA's website.

• November 8, 2007: Alliance for Justice Web Workshop 
  This one-hour web workshop describes the challenges to evaluating advocacy and tools for both assessing advocacy capacity and evaluating advocacy work.
  
  Details: For more information, contact Jeff Prior, Program Assistant for AFJ's Nonprofit Advocacy Project and Foundation Advocacy Initiative:
  jeff [at] afj.org.
 


• January and July, 2008: Adapting Evaluation to Systems Change Work 
  
The Evaluators Institute (TEI) is offering a one-day course "Alternative Evaluation Designs: Implications from Systems Thinking and Complexity Theory" on evaluating systems change work as part of its January and July, 2008, institutes.

Details: Michael Quinn Patton will teach the course on January 17, 2008, in San Francisco and July 17, 2008, in Washington, D.C.  For more information, visit TEI's website.
 
 
 
 
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