Tue, May 12, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM MICHAEL SMITH LABORATORIES. Free. How do you capture the long term impact your work will create? Meaningful grant writing and reporting begins with keeping your outcomes in mind.
Please join us on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 for a discussion on Measuring Change. Our keynote speaker, Sarah Stachowiak, CEO of ORS Impact, will help you integrate policy change and influence into your grant applications and reporting. In this session, we will focus on the challenge of time horizons, i.e. how do you address the discrepancies between the potential impacts of your research, often long-term oriented, and the short time frames that your project grants are designed to accommodate? By answering some deceptively simple questions “Why you do what you do? And how will it make a difference?” you can capture important information that gets to the heart of your Theory of Change - the discipline of mapping how activities link to strategies, to outcomes, and to your vision of a world made better by your work. We will discuss examples and case studies where this kind of policy and change evaluation is done really well, as well as some examples where it went off the rails.
Contact: Emma.Gaiger@ubc.ca