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about, emphasizing the welcoming, inclusive, “whole person” space aspects that must surround these
relationships. https://www.creahawaii.com/about-us
adrienne marie brown’s The Principles of Emergent Strategy which speaks so eloquently about an
evolving and adaptive practice to knowing and learning together, very different from white dominant
culture approaches that occupy too much of the respected space of knowledge building.
https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html
The Othering and Belonging Institute led by noted scholar john powell, which is wrangling with
difficult questions about connecting with people across race boundaries - even possibly the defiant and
tribal MAGA voters - bridging with them (rather than breaking with them) calling them in (rather than
calling them out) as our surest path forward to a strengthened democracy and beloved community.
https://belonging.berkeley.edu/
Heather McGhee, board chair of Color of Change, in her excellent book The
Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together,
which encourages us to respond to this era of “suffering and dysfunction
the country’s white majority is willing to tolerate” in the wake of the Trump
presidency by embracing the fact that “antiquated beliefs that some groups of
people are better than others” can and must be replaced by “a new story of who
we could be to one another.”
Equitable Evaluation by the Luminare Group—there is a lot of resonance. We
could have written their vision statement: “Our vision is one where evaluative
practice works toward creating a world in which we all thrive and one where
the multiple truths of the human experience are valued and valid.” This group
has provided valuable tools and guidance to evaluators concerned with the
kind of evaluators and evaluation that take a divergent path to more traditional
evaluation. From their website: “Everyday narratives that marginalize, minimize
and disrespect people of color and those with less privilege should be replaced
with ones that understand the systemic and structural barriers that limit
possibilities and the ability to thrive. They can instead lift up the historical, contextual and powerful
dynamics that create and sustain oppression and shed light on the strategies and solutions which can
shift the “rules of the game” so that equity is achievable.” https://www.equitableeval.org/
A few important thought papers from some of our trusted
colleagues in the evaluation field:
By Julia Coffman, et al., Advocacy that builds power:
Transforming policies and systems for health and racial equity.
A report for The California Endowment. Center for Evaluation and
Innovation. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aNyNsqjAZG-WS38Lcx-WXH_lUGtWX8b/view
By Sarah Stakowiah, et al., Some lessons from participatory
grantmaking and meditations on power and the field. Read about
it at this link: https://fundforsharedinsight.org/more-thanmoney-participatory-grantmaking-and-perceptions-of-power/
Vu Le, blogger at Nonprofit AF who writes often on the tragic absurdities of life as a nonprofit, who in a
particular post discussed the way that the focus on “effectiveness” as a condition of funding has caused
more harm than it has supported anyone: https://nonprofitaf.com/2017/12/how-the-concept-ofeffectiveness-has-screwed-nonprofits-and-the-people-we-serve/
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