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What Does Our Community's Growing Diversity Have To Do With Evaluation?

The Colorado Trust engages Community Science to help answer this question

Like many areas of the country, Colorado's racial and ethnic populations have grown more diverse, particularly through an increase in immigrants and refugees. The Colorado Trust wanted to ensure that its grant making and evaluations continue to evolve to better serve people of myriad cultures. With that goal in mind, they engaged Community Science to help deepen their understanding about what it takes to do a cross-culturally competent evaluation.
 
Ensuring a Cross-Culturally Competent Evaluation: The Journey Continues is the second part of a two-part series about such evaluations, funded by The Colorado Trust and written by Community Science's Kien Lee. It offers insights to help guide the complex dynamics between evaluators, funders and stakeholders of different cultures. The report gives useful examples of where cross-cultural competency is critical in evaluation and recommends questions and strategies that an evaluator should consider when practicing this form of cultural competency.

Community Science is committed to evaluations that are responsive to the growing diversity of our communities.
 
The Colorado Trust has a long-standing commitment to evaluating the effectiveness of its grant making. It has boosted its efforts to incorporate culturally competent practices to reflect a changing population.

To view the report in its entirety, click here (PDF file). The first report in the series is available for download here (PDF file).
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Since 1997, Community Science has provided an integrated approach to building the capacity of organizations and institutions, helping to develop healthy, just and equitable communities. Our greatest strength is the study of community and system change. From day one, our objective has been simple: to develop the knowledge necessary to address social problems in a way that benefits all communities. We answer evaluation and research questions using state-of-the-art qualitative and quantitative methods. Our services include research and evaluation services, capacity-building products and services, and initiative management and support.