Arts Ed Newark was founded on the principles of collective advocacy and empowerment. As such, our Evaluation work over the years has helped develop a mindset of “lifting all boats” for the greater sake of access. Since 2015, our evaluation learning community has helped more than 20 partners build capacity in order to develop a common language around evaluation and meet an important tenet of collective impact as a community serving a common mission. We set out to share the collective Newark arts education story, increase organizational evaluation capacity, demonstrate impact, and inform individual work. ​

 

Beginning in 2016, we developed an evaluation committee, identified our partners’ unifying questions and common goals, hosted workshops and brainstorming sessions to build evaluation capacity, developed common tools to measure impact and connected data with partners’ stories. We began virtual Help Desks but changed them to Evaluation Conversations sessions open to all partners. This is all while we facilitated an iterative process – with new areas of learning added as requested. 

 

Workshop topics include some of the following:

• Creating Logic Models

• Survey Creation

• Survey Analysis 101 & 102

• Focus Groups 

• Early Childhood Evaluation Part I & II

• Telling Your Story