This latest issue was sponsored and curated by the Fund for Shared Insight, resulting in a compilation of cross-sectional perspectives on listening as an active process. Writing the article provided welcome space for co-authors Melissa Monbouquette with the de Beaumont Foundation and Jessica Mulcahy with Success Measures to reflect on five years of working and thinking together to create structures for listening into BUILD’s culture.
Welcoming Rebecca Piatt to the Success Measures Team
We recently welcomed Rebecca Piatt to the team as Senior Manager, Success Measures Evaluation Services. Prior to joining us, Rebecca directed projects and evaluation teams at Mathematica. She brings ten years of experience in learning, evaluation and technical assistance.
Rebecca will lead participatory evaluation consulting and technical assistance projects with community-based and philanthropic organizations focused on community development and other place-based initiatives.
“I’m delighted to continue learning and evaluation work to help housing and community development organizations collect and use data more effectively,” she said. “This year, I’ll be overseeing an evaluation in the DC region. I am excited to contribute to affordable housing initiatives where my family lives and works.”
Rebecca is based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and works out of our DC office. You can reach her at rpiatt@nw.org to introduce yourself and say hello.
Promotion Announcement: Tenia Wilson
Congratulations to Tenia Wilson on her promotion to Senior Manager, Program Services! Since joining our team in 2020 after 18 years with NeighborWorks’ Training division, Tenia has demonstrated her deep commitment to supporting the Success Measures team by bringing a customer service lens to every interaction and process.
While this new role recognizes her contributions within our operations team, she continues to work with internal and external partners to coordinate invoicing and payments, contracting and other administrative processes that make our work successful.
Where You'll Find Us
October 5-6, People & Places Conference in Washington, DC Lynne Wallace, Vice President, Success Measures Business Development & Operations, and Rebecca Piatt, Senior Manager, Success Measures Evaluation Services, will be attending the People & Places Conference. Feel free to reach Lynne (lwallace@nw.org) or Rebecca (rpiatt@nw.org) to schedule time to chat.
Lana Jacobus, Manager, Success Measures Marketing & Communications, will also be present at the NeighborWorks table to help answer questions and share more information about Success Measures’ work.
Other conferences on our calendars:
October 7, Lynne will be attending the Prosperity Summit in Washington, DC. October 20-23, Lynne Wallace and Lana Jacobus will attend OFN41 in Washington, DC. You can come say hello to Lana at the NeighborWorks table in the exhibit hall!
November 11, Arturo Garcia, Jr., Senior Director, Success Measures Evaluation Services, and Katie Kristensen, Manager, Equitable Evaluation, will be attending the Evaluation Roundtable in Kansas City, MO, hosted by the Center for Evaluation Innovation to bring together learning and evaluation leaders and practitioners working at foundations.
Success Measures, a social enterprise at NeighborWorks America since 2004, provides evaluation, learning and strategy consulting, technical assistance, tools and technology to organizations and funders looking to understand how their programs and investments are changing lives and improving communities. To all of our work, we bring a commitment to intentional, equitable assessments that help residents, nonprofits and foundations understand and strengthen their impact through collaborative evaluation and learning processes that are inclusive, practical and purposeful.
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