Jara Dean-Coffey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4170091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jara Dean-Coffey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jara |
| FAMILY NAME | Dean-Coffey |
| SIGNATURE | DEAN-COFFEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Evaluation Innovation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Raising the Bar — Integrating Cultural Competence and Equity: Equitable Evaluation – With 2024 Prologue
Editor’s Note: This article, first published in print and online in 2014, has been republished by The Foundation Review with minor updates. Whether implicit or explicit, social justice and human rights are part of the mission of many philanthropies. Evaluation produced, sponsored, or consumed by these philanthropies that doesn’t pay attention to the imperatives of cultural competency may be inconsistent with their missions. The American Evaluatio…
Strategy for Now
We are in a profound period of understanding who we are as a people, past and present. This applies to practices held as core to how society operates. If we are to thrive as a species, the present and future necessitate reimagining the structures, systems, and conventions that limit some and thus us all. This includes not defaulting to control, competition, and certainty as we navigate circumstances we created. Amid growing desires to integrate a…
TFR 15.3 Full Issue
FIGURE 2 Elements of the EEFIt feels like there's no end to this...the different themes that you can explore and the growth that can happen.I can't overstate how foundational the territory is that we've gone through together...it's so fundamental to how we think about our practice around learning.And personally, I've picked up a lot of ways of working... how we come together as a group and talk and bring our full humanity to discussions
The Practice of the Equitable Evaluation FrameworkTM: Context and Introduction to the Special Issue
Welcome to the special issue of The Foundation Review. For many, this is an introduction to the Equitable Evaluation FrameworkTM, and how some folks in U.S. philanthropy are reimagining evaluation, learning, and research through its practice. For others, you’ve been in practice of the EEF alongside us and other individuals and organizations and are, thus, represented in the offerings shared from your colleagues. Over the past three years, in part…
Evaluation Perspectives
Leveraging Effective Consulting to Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philanthropy
In 2018, the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers launched an initiative to sharpen the impact of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work in grantmaking by increasing the capacity of consultants and grantmakers engaged in these efforts. Network researchers used a systematic protocol to interview consultant members about their most effective partnerships with grantmakers. Case studies drawn from those interviews yielded valuable less…
What’s Race Got to Do With It? Equity and Philanthropic Evaluation Practice
An increasing number of foundations are embracing racial equity/equity as a core value, and it is influencing how they see themselves and operate. However, evaluation has for the most part remained untouched. Knowing how race/racism has influenced both, philanthropy and evaluation, deepens our understanding of how philanthropic evaluation practice may unintentionally reinforce racism. Equitable evaluation shifts the current evaluation paradigm to…
Raising the Bar – Integrating Cultural Competence and Equity: Equitable Evaluation
Whether implicit or explicit, social justice and human rights are part of the mission of many philanthropies. Evaluation produced, sponsored, or consumed by these philanthropies that doesn’t pay attention to the imperatives of cultural competency may be inconsistent with their missions. · The American Evaluation Association’s Statement on Cultural Competence provides those who produce, sponsor, and use evaluation an opportunity to examine and ali…
Dimensions of Change: A Model for Community Change Efforts
Key PointsThe Dimension of Change Model (DOCM), developed by the authors, is offered as a potentially useful tool for foundations, government, bodies,consultants, coalitions, and even individual organizations that are initiating or engaged in substantive efforts to bring about community change.The dimensions contained in the model - structure, parameters, intention, approach, and people - offer a frame for addressing key aspects that emerge from …
What’s Race Got to Do With It? Equity and Philanthropic Evaluation Practice
An increasing number of foundations are embracing racial equity/equity as a core value, and it is influencing how they see themselves and operate. However, evaluation has for the most part remained untouched. Knowing how race/racism has influenced both, philanthropy and evaluation, deepens our understanding of how philanthropic evaluation practice may unintentionally reinforce racism. Equitable evaluation shifts the current evaluation paradigm to…
Dimensions of Change: A Model for Community Change Efforts
Key PointsThe Dimension of Change Model (DOCM), developed by the authors, is offered as a potentially useful tool for foundations, government, bodies,consultants, coalitions, and even individual organizations that are initiating or engaged in substantive efforts to bring about community change.The dimensions contained in the model - structure, parameters, intention, approach, and people - offer a frame for addressing key aspects that emerge from …
Raising the Bar — Integrating Cultural Competence and Equity: Equitable Evaluation – With 2024 Prologue
Editor’s Note: This article, first published in print and online in 2014, has been republished by The Foundation Review with minor updates. Whether implicit or explicit, social justice and human rights are part of the mission of many philanthropies. Evaluation produced, sponsored, or consumed by these philanthropies that doesn’t pay attention to the imperatives of cultural competency may be inconsistent with their missions. The American Evaluatio…
Evaluation Perspectives
Raising the Bar – Integrating Cultural Competence and Equity: Equitable Evaluation
Whether implicit or explicit, social justice and human rights are part of the mission of many philanthropies. Evaluation produced, sponsored, or consumed by these philanthropies that doesn’t pay attention to the imperatives of cultural competency may be inconsistent with their missions. · The American Evaluation Association’s Statement on Cultural Competence provides those who produce, sponsor, and use evaluation an opportunity to examine and ali…
Dimensions of Change: A Model for Community Change Efforts
Key PointsThe Dimension of Change Model (DOCM), developed by the authors, is offered as a potentially useful tool for foundations, government, bodies,consultants, coalitions, and even individual organizations that are initiating or engaged in substantive efforts to bring about community change.The dimensions contained in the model - structure, parameters, intention, approach, and people - offer a frame for addressing key aspects that emerge from …
Raising the Bar – Integrating Cultural Competence and Equity: Equitable Evaluation
Whether implicit or explicit, social justice and human rights are part of the mission of many philanthropies. Evaluation produced, sponsored, or consumed by these philanthropies that doesn’t pay attention to the imperatives of cultural competency may be inconsistent with their missions. · The American Evaluation Association’s Statement on Cultural Competence provides those who produce, sponsor, and use evaluation an opportunity to examine and ali…
What’s Race Got to Do With It? Equity and Philanthropic Evaluation Practice
An increasing number of foundations are embracing racial equity/equity as a core value, and it is influencing how they see themselves and operate. However, evaluation has for the most part remained untouched. Knowing how race/racism has influenced both, philanthropy and evaluation, deepens our understanding of how philanthropic evaluation practice may unintentionally reinforce racism. Equitable evaluation shifts the current evaluation paradigm to…
Leveraging Effective Consulting to Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philanthropy
In 2018, the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers launched an initiative to sharpen the impact of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work in grantmaking by increasing the capacity of consultants and grantmakers engaged in these efforts. Network researchers used a systematic protocol to interview consultant members about their most effective partnerships with grantmakers. Case studies drawn from those interviews yielded valuable less…
Evaluation Perspectives
TFR 15.3 Full Issue
FIGURE 2 Elements of the EEFIt feels like there's no end to this...the different themes that you can explore and the growth that can happen.I can't overstate how foundational the territory is that we've gone through together...it's so fundamental to how we think about our practice around learning.And personally, I've picked up a lot of ways of working... how we come together as a group and talk and bring our full humanity to discussions
The Practice of the Equitable Evaluation FrameworkTM: Context and Introduction to the Special Issue
Welcome to the special issue of The Foundation Review. For many, this is an introduction to the Equitable Evaluation FrameworkTM, and how some folks in U.S. philanthropy are reimagining evaluation, learning, and research through its practice. For others, you’ve been in practice of the EEF alongside us and other individuals and organizations and are, thus, represented in the offerings shared from your colleagues. Over the past three years, in part…
Raising the Bar — Integrating Cultural Competence and Equity: Equitable Evaluation – With 2024 Prologue
Editor’s Note: This article, first published in print and online in 2014, has been republished by The Foundation Review with minor updates. Whether implicit or explicit, social justice and human rights are part of the mission of many philanthropies. Evaluation produced, sponsored, or consumed by these philanthropies that doesn’t pay attention to the imperatives of cultural competency may be inconsistent with their missions. The American Evaluatio…
Strategy for Now
We are in a profound period of understanding who we are as a people, past and present. This applies to practices held as core to how society operates. If we are to thrive as a species, the present and future necessitate reimagining the structures, systems, and conventions that limit some and thus us all. This includes not defaulting to control, competition, and certainty as we navigate circumstances we created. Amid growing desires to integrate a…
Political science (7 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (6 works) · Equity (law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)