Transformative impact evaluation and storytelling

Explore how to center equity and lived experience through transformative assessment and storytelling for your program or organization.

Drawing from over a decade of experience developing methods that center communities in design, policy, and planning decisions, we've launched this new webinar series for teams to integrate critical reflection, collaboration, and inclusion into their everyday work. This workshop will be held online via Zoom. The link to the room will be sent out 48 hours prior to the start of the workshop.

The aim of this webinar is to support how you understand and communicate programmatic and organizational impact using a transformative framework. We’ll cover an introduction to values and mindsets, and then dig into specific tools to:

• Understand the transformative evaluation model;
• Build inclusive stakeholder engagement and qualitative inquiry into your evaluation framework;
• Gain awareness of your positionality and build reflexivity in qualitative and narrative inquiry;
• Foster power-sharing in impact storytelling and narrative development.

Takeaways

Through an engaging share-out of case studies and guided, small-group activities, you will learn how to build an assessment framework that enables inclusion and power-sharing as the foundation for effective impact storytelling.

About

3x3 is an inclusive innovation studio designing for systemic change.

About the facilitators

Megan Marini is the Co-founder and Director of Strategy and Outreach at 3x3. She oversees 3×3’s strategic planning work, focusing on practical applications of systems thinking to develop inclusive design strategies for urban needs. Megan has designed and facilitated training workshops for over 60 city agencies and not-for-profit organizations on the topics of strategic planning, program design and evaluation, and impact storytelling. Prior to 3×3, she specialized in design research for development programs internationally at organizations such as Reboot, the Earth Institute’s Center for Sustainable Urban Development, and ARCHIVE for clients ranging from the World Bank, UNEPS, UNOPS, and Internews. With an interest in community and capacity building in challenging contexts, Megan has lectured at IIT Institute for Design, Columbia University, Barnard College, and the Johns Hopkins University Program in Latin American Studies. Her work and writing has been featured in GOOD, Public Interest Design, and DWELL. Megan holds an MS in Urban Planning from Columbia University, where she received the Planning Challenge award for her thesis on technological innovation in post-disaster Haiti, and has a BS in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Priyanka Jain is the Co-founder and Director of Development at 3x3. She elicits human insights in varied contexts to expand organizational knowledge of their stakeholders and audiences. Her work focuses on community and economic development in marginalized and low-income communities, international development, and cultural programming. She has designed and facilitated community visioning and stakeholder engagement workshops for over 60 city agencies and not-for-profit organizations. She has worked in various global settings including New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul and New York City. Priyanka has taught and lectured at Ansal University and spoken at the Kyoorius Designyatra and Reinventing Dharavi conference. She was part of the community engagement working group for the Urban Design Forum’s 21 Visions for 2021 initiative, a bold environment agenda for New York City’s next leadership. She wrote on innovative and scalable working solutions for Delhi’s urban poverty for URB.im, a Dallant Networks and Ford Foundation project. Priyanka holds an MS in Urban Planning from Columbia University, where she won the Kinne Grant for research, and received her Bachelors in Architecture from Sushant School of Art and Architecture.