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Conference Monday, October 12 - Friday, October 16 8:30am to 12:30am Sessions will be offered between 8:30am - 12:30am each day of the conference.  Sessions will be recorded and available to conference attendees within 60 days of the conference.  Registration fee = $30 The registration fee includes H-PEA membership Conference fee waiver application is available for those with financial hardship.    Important Dates September 10: Student scholarship application deadline October 8: Registration deadline

Workshops 90-minute invited workshop on Monday, 10/12/2020: Evaluation Boot Camp: Introduction to Program Evaluation for Program Directors/Managers (Sena Sanjines) Twenty-seven short, skill-building workshops and roundtables will be embedded into the main conference. Attendees can choose their learning path following four tracks: Context, Methodology, Professional Practice, and Planning and Management

CREA-Hawaiʻi Strand

  

2020 marks the second year H-PEA will be hosting a dedicated CREA-HI strand at the annual conference. CREA-HI is the local affiliate of the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment. This year’s strand includes 3 sessions: Introduction to Kūkulu Kumuhana and the Aloha Framework, Application of Kūkulu Kumuhana and the Aloha Framework for Evaluation, and Aloha as a Disruptive and Humbling Force on Evaluators’ Journeys toward Justice and Equity. See the full conference program for more information about these sessions and creahawaii.com for more information about the local affiliate and its work.

Opening Keynote

2021-2030: Mapping Hawai‘i’s Evaluation Future 

Keynote Speaker: Tom Kelly

Tom Kelly joined the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation in 2012 as vice president for knowledge, evaluation and learning after 13 years managing evaluations at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland.  His work in evaluation began in 1990 and includes the building of evaluation and knowledge-building capacity, evaluation of policy advocacy and community capacity, and foundation performance and results measurement.  At Hawai‘i Community Foundation he is focused on the use of evaluation and knowledge to increase nonprofit and philanthropy effectiveness and on strategic planning for the foundation. Tom is a member of the board of directors of American Evaluation Association (2020-2022) and is a graduate of Harvard College and The George Washington University.

Closing Panel

Aloha as a Disruptive and Humbling Force on Evaluators’ Journeys toward Justice and Equity

Panelists: 

Herb Lee, Jr., President & CEO, Pacific American Foundation

Pālama Lee, Director of Research & Evaluation, Liliʻuokalani Trust 

Peter Mataira, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Hawaii Pacific University

Paula Morelli, Program Director, Consuelo Foundation

Katherine A. Tibbetts, Executive Director of Research & Evaluation, Liliʻuokalani Trust

In our role as evaluators, we are people of privilege. We begin and end with the orienting questions:

• How do we move to the side and support those whom we seek to serve as they strive to realize their vision of their best selves?
• How do evaluators influence systems to orient toward issues of equity and justice?

Two panelist dyads will share their responses to our orienting question, addressing subtopics such as:

• What does it look like when we engage aloha as a disruptive force and how does this connect to the concepts of ea, sovereignty, and evaluation as an act of self-determination.

• How are we colonized by our Western training and how do we decolonize/indigenize our selves and our practice with humility and aloha

Following the panelists, participants will engage in a facilitated discussion of our collective big ideas about the role evaluation can and should play in service of community, justice, and equity during the disruptions, pain, and opportunities for reinvention presented by the COVID-19.

Invited Opening Workshop

Evaluation Boot Camp: Introduction to Program Evaluation for Program Directors/Managers

Facilitator: Sena Sanjines

Is evaluation a requirement for your program and you're not sure how to get started? Did someone write an evaluation plan for you but you're not sure what’s next? Have you hired an evaluator but aren't sure how they can add value to your work? Then this workshop is for you. This workshop is designed for program directors and managers who are new to evaluation and want to get a better handle on what they need and how to get it. In this workshop we will review: 

• the nuts and bolts for determining when you need an evaluator and different purposes evaluation can serve;

• what to expect/not expect based on common types of evaluation;

• key terms referenced in evaluation plans and what they mean;

• the evaluator and program director/manager roles;  

• tips for finding and selecting an evaluator; and

• costing it out – what to consider when budgeting for evaluation.

 

By the end of the workshop attendees will be able to a) determine if they need an evaluator, b) know key terms and what to expect from common types of evaluation, including roles, and c) understand ways to find the right evaluator and how much to spend. At the close of the workshop we will also share take-home tips and resources you can use to help develop evaluation capacity within your organization.  

About the Facilitator

Sena has conducted program evaluations as an internal and external evaluator for government, private, and non-profit organizations in the state of Hawai’i since 2012. Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, she completed her masters and doctorate in Hawai’i specializing in research on program evaluation with a goal to improve how we communicate data. Drawing from this research, Sena regularly provides trainings to teach others how to create better data visualizations and calls herself an "evaluation cheerleader." In addition to Dr. Sanjines’ interest in data visualization and her love of evaluation, she is an experienced qualitative and quantitative researcher and guest lectures for undergraduate and graduate courses in program evaluation and research methods. Sena is the former president of the Hawai’i-Pacific Evaluation Association and is an active member of local and national evaluation networks.

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