What it Means to Build Spaces Where People Can Be Seen Over the past few years, we’ve had the privilege of working alongside The 519 on a number of projects, each one grounded in a deep commitment to community, dignity, and care for the 2SLGBTQ+ community. What stands out most as we reflect on our
This International Women’s Day, TNC would like to spotlight one of our partners, Capacity Canada, an organization dedicated to strengthening the nonprofit sector across the country. Since 2009, Capacity Canada has worked alongside nonprofits to help organizations grow their leadership, strengthen governance, and explore new approaches to meeting the needs of their communities. TNC has
This Black History Month, TNC would like to spotlight one of our newer partners, The Black Daddies Club (BDC). Founded in 2008 by Brandon Hay, the Black Daddies Club was created to give Black fathers a community where it may have been lacking before. BDC builds opportunities for fathers and their families to gather and
The Lawson Foundation. TNC evaluated the Lawson Foundation’s YAENV Fellowship, a climate-focused philanthropic granting initiative supporting youth environmental leaders. Our team designed a longitudinal mixed-methods evaluation that synthesized survey data, multi-stage interviews, and ongoing qualitative insights to understand cohort-wide progress and system-level outcomes. We co-created a Theory of Change with Lawson staff and youth advisors
Partners: Lutherwood and the Lead Agency Advisory Council of Waterloo Region. In two sequential projects, conducted a comprehensive environmental scan of existing Child and Youth Mental Health services in Waterloo Region. The scan was developed to examine the types, reach, and focus of services within MCYS core funding as well as other CYMH programs funded
TNC is excited to spotlight the excellent work of The Re-Seasoning Coalition, a non-profit organization disrupting the foodservice industry by creating more opportunities for the advancement of Black people across all levels of the sector. The Coalition’s work is anchored in race-based research, allowing them to leverage data to help partners uncover biases, blind spots,
A Blog Series At TNC, we are always thinking about better ways to help our clients gather the data that they need. We never want to become wedded to a narrow, rigid set of methods. Sometimes, this process leads us to try out new methods that we have not tried before. At other times, it
At TNC we are dedicated to promoting gender equality. One way we do this is through research and evaluation. We are currently evaluating a number of gender-based systemic change projects that are disrupting systems of oppression.
WHAT IS CONNECTIVITY? Connectivity is the name of the Waterloo Region “Situation Tables”, which bring police, health and social service agencies together at a weekly meeting to collaboratively and proactively address situations of acutely elevated risk in the community. In January 2014, the Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) in partnership with Langs Community Health Centre
UPDATE: CLICK HERE FOR OUR PHASE 2 EVALUATION (2017) OF CONNECTIVITY, FOCUSING ON THE OUTCOMES OF WATERLOO REGION’S SITUATION TABLES! WHAT IS CONNECTIVITY? Connectivity is the name of the Waterloo Region “Situation Tables”, which bring police, health and social service agencies together at a weekly meeting to collaboratively and proactively address situations of acutely elevated
Reflections from the Ontario Nonprofit Network Annual Conference Our byline at TNC is “evidence, insight, action,” and this website includes a number of stories that show how evaluation can really equip organizations to act in new and powerful ways. However, evaluation does not always or automatically lead to action. It is nothing more
Imagine you go to visit a town full of thriving, interesting shops and busy parks. You wander past a bustling new elementary school. Eventually, your walk brings you to the edge of town, where you notice something incongruous – a huge, straight, ugly wall. It is a very tall wall, and it stretches as
Taylor Newberry Consulting frequently works with small non profit organizations to develop simple, practical evaluation strategies that help them to learn and grow. While introductory evaluation workshops are helpful, we have found that people often need individualized coaching and support when the sit down to apply evaluation principles to their own programs. Over the
