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  • GBEN In-person Social Event: September 15

    • 09/15/2025
    • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Craft Food Hall - Cambridge, 35 Cambridgepark Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140
    • 10 registrants
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    Join us for our next in-person social event! One of the benefits of GBEN is its network of fun and accomplished evaluators! Come and mingle with other GBEN members at Craft Food Hall in Cambridge (across from Alewife station).  We look forward to seeing you there!

    Craft Food Hall - Cambridge (35 Cambridgepark Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140) is accessible via the Alewife stop (Red line). Parking is also available at the Alewife garage for a fee. The event is mask-friendly. GBEN will purchase some shareable snacks, and attendees will be able to purchase their own beverages.

    Please register for the event so that we know to expect you!

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  • September Equitable Evaluation (EE) Discussion Group

    • 09/18/2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • Virtual
    • 99
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    Please note: This event is open only to GBEN members. You must be logged into the website to register. Interested in becoming a member? Check out our Membership Page to learn more about the benefits. 

    For our September discussion, the article will be shared out to attendees prior to the event. As always, time will be reserved for Problems of Practice. 

    If you are interested in attending this session, please register. A Zoom link will be sent in your registration confirmation.

    About the Discussion Group:

    The Discussion Group focuses on two broad questions:

    (1) How do I start using equitable evaluation practices?

    (2) What do successful equitable evaluation practices look like?

    The Discussion Group was inspired by the small-group informal conversations that originally led to the creation of GBEN. We hope that these new conversations will provide GBEN members another setting to problem-solving on issues related to equitable evaluation while also getting to know each other better. Each session will discuss a short article or blog post related to equitable evaluation and problems of practice shared by meeting participants. The discussion groups will be conducted on Zoom.  These discussions are hosted every 4 to 6 weeks.


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  • GBEN Affinity Groups Info Session and Pilot

    • 09/25/2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • Virtual
    • 93
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    Please note: This event is open only to GBEN members. You must be logged into the website to register. Interested in becoming a member? Check out our Membership Page to learn more about the benefits. 

    We are excited to announce an introductory session and pilot of affinity groups to foster further connection and peer learning within GBEN. In this session, we will cover what affinity groups are, what their benefits are, and also co-create some initial affinity groups with participants. This event will be a chance to create shared spaces that can bring together members who are internal or external evaluators, early career or mid-to-late career evaluators, or are connected in other ways.

    If you are interested in joining or contributing to the development of affinity groups, please join us on Zoom on Thursday, September 25th from 12-1pm EST! A Zoom link will be sent in your registration confirmation.

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Past events

07/17/2025 July Equitable Evaluation (EE) Discussion Group
07/15/2025 GBEN Summer "Pop-up" Social: July 15
06/03/2025 Using Social Network Analysis in Program Evaluation
05/21/2025 May Equitable Evaluation (EE) Discussion Group
05/15/2025 May Community Connection- Hosted by DEI Committee
05/13/2025 Advancing Evaluation Practice Through AI Tools: Emerging Trends, Practical Applications, and Ethical Considerations
04/28/2025 GBEN In-person Social Event: April 28
04/17/2025 Community Connection- Hosted by DEI Committee
04/10/2025 Careers Decoded: Evaluation - The Career You Never Knew You Wanted!
04/01/2025 Not an April's Fools Joke: Equitable Evaluation (EE) Discussion Group
03/19/2025 Community Conversation: The Changing Landscape of Data Collection
03/11/2025 Increase your Excel Efficiency 2.0!
02/26/2025 Principles-Focused Approaches to Evaluation & Interest Holder Engagement
02/03/2025 GBEN In-person Social Event
01/22/2025 The Art of Tough Conversations: Words That Work When It Matters
01/17/2025 GBEN 2025 Annual Meeting
12/05/2024 Using Comics for Amplifying Voices in Evaluation
11/14/2024 Designing Evaluation Products from a UX/Human Centered approach
09/30/2024 Onboarding and Managing a New Evaluator
09/23/2024 GBEN In-person Social Event
06/06/2024 GBEN In-person Social Event
05/29/2024 Learning Logs for Short-cycle Feedback and Long-term Learning
04/24/2024 Increase your Excel Efficiency!
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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