Doing evaluation in service of racial equity | Crosspost from Every Child Thrives
BY HUILAN KRENN and COMMUNITY SCIENCE | CROSSPOST FROM EVERY CHILD THRIVES
Doing Evaluation in Service of Racial Equity is a three-part series of practice guides that show how to incorporate racial equity as a core value into evaluation.
Evaluators help measure the effectiveness of change efforts that impact the lives of children and their families every day. Local leaders, funders, nonprofits, academic institutions and other change agents use evaluation to demonstrate successes, test new models and refine strategies to create more equitable communities.
How do we know that the formula for change works? Where do evaluators begin when they want to conduct evaluation to advance racial equity? To help answer those questions and in response to the past few years’ global outcry for racial justice, we commissioned three racial equity practice guides with tools to help evaluators debunk myths, diagnose biases and systems and deepen community engagement in their evaluation endeavors:
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s commitment to racial equity started decades ago, and is embedded in everything we do, including evaluation.
“In this transformative moment in our world, we want this new tool to become the textbook for how to embed racial equity in evaluation practices, serving as the standard for the profession moving forward,” said La June Montgomery Tabron, president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Hear more from La June and her challenge for these guides to become a lasting parameter for equitable measurement.
