Looking for the Ripple Effect

To tell their impact story more fully, Settlement Service Provider Organizations (SPOs) need to capture the rich, compelling evidence of the outcomes of their important work. Outputs are not enough. The longer-term changes that result from settlement support highlight the value of work done in the sector.

Learn about outcomes-based evaluation! By completing a series of flexible modules in this free professional development opportunity, SPOs will be able to build an evaluation strategy that helps them broaden their own organization’s definition of success and begin to report on the social and economic value that they bring to communities, society, and systems.

Looking for the Ripple Effect is a professional development resource for IRCC-funded Youth, Employment, Conversation Circle, Francophone and/or Information & Orientation programming in Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut and Northwest Territories.

Originally conceived as an in-person workshop, the resource now consists of ten core modules and three supplementary modules of online information about outcomes-based evaluation. The goal is to provide Settlement Service Provider Organizations with background, tools, and strategies to tell their impact story more fully.

Participants can access the online modules individually or as part of a cohort. Over the course of several months, they can work through the modules in sequence or select specific topics of interest. Along with written content, participants will have access to recordings, case studies, samples, downloadable templates, and live discussions.

Modules

  • Module 1: Expand the definition of “success” for programs and services
  • Module 2: Create a stakeholder map
  • Module 3: Create a Theory of Change chart
  • Module 4: Identify key Change Domains
  • Module 5: Brainstorm outcomes and indicators
  • Module 6: Choose the strongest outcomes and indicators
  • Module 7: Choose tools and timelines for collecting feedback
  • Module 8: Analyze and interpret data
  • Module 9: Report an impact argument
  • Module 10: Document an evaluation strategy

Access Dates for 2021-2022 are September 20, 2021 to March 31, 2022

Start Dates for French language cohorts:

  • September 27
  • January 10

Start Dates for English language cohorts:

  • September 20
  • November 1
  • January 10

Module Development

Eupraxia Training is a small consulting group located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Principal consultant, Margerit Roger, M.Ed., has worked with community-based organizations, post-secondaries, industry, labour, and provincial and federal government departments to develop and evaluate programs in and for the social purpose sector. She has spent the last six years using social impact analysis as a way of strategically describing an organization's “ripple-effect” on individuals, families, communities, and systems.

For more information, please email info@eupraxiatraining.com