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  • Increase your Excel Efficiency!

    • 04/24/2024
    • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • Virtual
    • 53
    • 45 registrants
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    Join GBEN for "Increase your Excel Efficiency", designed for evaluators eager to elevate their data analysis and spreadsheet management skills. This session will cover a wide array of tools and techniques essential for any professional seeking to maximize their efficiency and data handling capabilities in Excel. Participants will gain hands-on experience in the following areas:

    • PivotTables: Learn how to use PivotTables to efficiently summarize, analyze, sort, and present your data in several easy steps
    • XLOOKUP: See firsthand how it surpasses previous methods by offering a simpler, more flexible way to search for necessary data across different datasets, reducing complexity and improving your workflow
    • Data Cleaning Formulas: Gain proficiency in using fundamental data cleaning formulas such as TRIM, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and CONCAT. 
    • Spreadsheet Design for User Input: Unlock strategies for creating intuitive, user-friendly spreadsheets designed for data input. 
    Whether you're consolidating data for reports, performing complex analyses, or simply aiming to streamline your day-to-day tasks, these skills will enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of your data-driven projects and decision-making processes.

    Please note: If you are a GBEN member, this event is free. GBEN members, make sure you are logged into the website before registering. 

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  • Learning Logs for Short-cycle Feedback and Long-term Learning

    • 05/29/2024
    • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    • Virtual
    • 73
    • 27 registrants
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    Learning logs, which are based on emergent learning principles and practices, are a valuable tool for teams to capture their learnings over time and inform adjustments in strategy. While emergent learning tools are mostly designed for ongoing learning, Innovation Network has been experimenting with utilizing learning logs for evaluations. In this demonstration, Rebecca Perlmutter and Cory Georgopoulos will showcase how learning logs can be used for both short-cycle reflection and longer-term evaluations. Drawing from our own experience, we will discuss the pros and cons of using learning logs for evaluations and identify the best circumstances for their use. We will provide an overview of learning logs and share two examples from our work with policy advocacy organizations and communities of practice documenting their shifts toward advancing equity. Participants will receive a customizable template that they can use to implement learning logs in their own work.

    Please note: If you are a GBEN member, this event is free. GBEN members, make sure you are logged into the website before registering. 

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Past events

04/03/2024 Careers in Evaluation
03/22/2024 When Bots Attack!
03/06/2024 Equitable Evaluation (EE) Discussion Group
02/26/2024 GBEN In-person Social Event
02/15/2024 Evaluation and ChatGPT
01/31/2024 GBEN Member Orientation
01/26/2024 Looking ahead together in 2024 - GBEN Annual Meeting
01/18/2024 Problems of Practice Office Hours
12/07/2023 Equitable Evaluation (EE) Discussion Group
12/05/2023 Other Duties as Assigned: Tech Contracts: Putting you in the Driver’s Seat
11/14/2023 Problems of Practice Office Hours
11/09/2023 Other Duties as Assigned: Determining Systems & Vendors
10/19/2023 Equitable Evaluation (EE) Discussion Group
10/17/2023 Other Duties as Assigned: Knowing What You Need
09/28/2023 Add color to your data collection toolkit
09/18/2023 GBEN In-person Social Event
07/18/2023 Equitable Evaluation Discussion Group
06/26/2023 GBEN In-person Social Event
06/13/2023 Using Space and Place to Enhance Program Evaluation
05/25/2023 Problems of Practice Office Hours
05/16/2023 Deepening Participatory Practices
05/05/2023 GBEN Member Orientation
04/19/2023 Problems of Practice Office Hours
03/30/2023 Eating (and liking) your vegetables: Fun & novel ways to enhance staff evaluation capacity
03/29/2023 Building Boston's Bench of Evaluators
03/15/2023 Problems of Practice Office Hours
02/13/2023 GBEN In-person Social Event
01/27/2023 Connections for a fruitful 2023 - GBEN Annual Meeting
01/26/2023 Data Viz Gallery Walk
12/21/2022 End of Year Gathering and Reflection
11/16/2022 Using a Systems-based Culturally responsive Evaluation (SysCRE) Framework
10/21/2022 SCENE CollabStream Meet Up
09/15/2022 Data Feminism
08/01/2022 GBEN In-person Social Event
07/20/2022 GBEN Member Orientation
07/13/2022 Outcome Harvesting
07/12/2022 Equitable Evaluation Discussion Group
06/06/2022 Coding Qualitative Data with Limited Resources
05/17/2022 Qualitative Evaluation 101
04/07/2022 SCENE Event: Co-creating Contractual & Organizational Support
03/31/2022 How to Build In CRE into Design of an Evaluation
03/17/2022 How to Catch a Cloud: the Art and Science of Evaluation in Unstructured, Informal, Dynamic Settings
02/23/2022 Collaborate, Commiserate, Learn & Celebrate
02/11/2022 Celebrate GBEN and meet out new President!
01/27/2022 SCENE Event: Cultivating Self and Teams
11/18/2021 Reflections on "Value" within E-valuation: A Book Talk by Authors Thomas Schwandt and Emily Gates
11/18/2021 Ready to Engage?: Developing a Learning + Action Agenda to Conduct Culturally Responsive and Racial Equity Evaluation
10/27/2021 Inside Job: Strategies for maximizing the impact of your internal evaluation practice
10/15/2021 GBEN Member Orientation
06/21/2021 Data Corners
04/06/2021 Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE): Theory to Practice
03/18/2021 Critical Race Theory, Part 1
02/24/2021 Bring an Idea, leave with new perspective(s)
12/16/2020 Internal Evaluation (discussion-style)
11/16/2020 Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE): Introduction and Inquiry
11/10/2020 Getting Started with Consulting: An introductory webinar for evaluators who want to start consulting practices
09/29/2020 Let’s hear it for the visuals! How one evaluator collaborated with coalitions to create infographics
09/10/2020 Leadership and Libations!
07/22/2020 Evaluators as “Accidental Techies:” What we’ve learned about database implementation
06/17/2020 Adapting Evaluations during COVID-June Roundtable
05/13/2020 Qualitative Comparative Analysis - May roundtable
04/23/2020 Values in Evaluation Applied: Balancing Stakeholder, Commissioner, & Evaluator Values in Evaluation
03/09/2020 Presentation on Trauma-informed Data Collection
02/12/2020 Roundtable on Building Evidence
12/04/2019 An Approach to Multi-Grantee Evaluation
11/14/2019 GBEN at AEA
11/04/2019 2019 Annual Meeting
10/29/2019 What should evaluators know about IRBs?
09/10/2019 Hiring for an Evaluation Position:Tips, Tricks, and Lesson’s Learned
08/21/2019 Independent Evaluators Meetup
08/21/2019 Logic Models: How to Engage Stakeholders and Create Innovative Products
07/22/2019 Summer social meetup
06/18/2019 Social Network Analysis
05/14/2019 Racial Equity and Evaluation
04/18/2019 Independent Evaluators Meetup
04/18/2019 Values in Evaluation-Panel at Boston College
03/05/2019 Empowerment Evaluation
02/05/2019 Impact Evaluation Panel at Northeastern University
01/14/2019 January Social Meet-up
12/04/2018 December 4th Roundtable-Budgeting for Evaluation
11/05/2018 2018 Business Meeting
11/01/2018 2018 AEA Meet up!
10/03/2018 October 3rd Roundtable: Community Health Needs Assessments
09/06/2018 How to Host Webinars that Don’t Suck
08/07/2018 August 7th Roundtable:Qualitative Evaluation
07/12/2018 July 12th-Summer Meet-up!
06/05/2018 June 5th Roundtable-Repurposing Existing Data
04/26/2018 Meetup for Independent Consultants
04/10/2018 April Social Meet-up
04/04/2018 April 4th Roundtable
03/13/2018 March Social Meet-up
02/06/2018 February Roundtable-Usability Testing for Evaluation Researchers

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