Evaluation is an important mechanism for accountability, helping ensure investments are being used as intended and gauging meaningful progress on shared goals. Skilled evaluators with lived experience in our community are positioned to provide evaluations that are culturally informed and responsive to community needs. Our community does not have enough local evaluators to bid on RFPs for external evaluators or fill in-house positions. Additionally, the local evaluation community lacks coordination of collective knowledge and resources.
Our Mission
Our project exists to strengthen San Antonio’s evaluation ecosystem by creating collective knowledge and resources, fostering collaboration, and growing awareness of evaluation as a career field.
Our Vision
San Antonians are better positioned to lead evaluation of the activities happening in our community. San Antonio’s evaluation community regularly engages in meaningful cross-sector collaboration.
Project Overview
The project team is recruiting collaborators from multiple sectors: higher education, K-12 independent school districts, nonprofits, foundations, local government, for-profit evaluation companies, independent consultants. Our request to participants is to engage in 2-5 working group sessions during 2023 (depending upon level of involvement and available time), provide data, and share feedback on resources and materials produced by the core working team.
The three overarching phases of the project are:
Data Collection & Analysis
Resource & Material Creation
Dissemination & Future Planning
Resources
Links will take you to our different Google Drive Folders
JOIN US!
We are seeking collaborators and referrals to those who may be interested in participating. We are also seeking investment- approximately 55% of the project cost is being provided through contributed/matching funds. We are raising capacity building-related community funds for the other 45%.
Project Contact
Kurt Steuck, PhD
Director of Evaluation and Research
Steuck & Associates LLC
Kurt.Steuck@steuckassoc.com
210-218-6852