Interested in creative placemaking evaluation tools?
Join our virtual learning circle: EXPLORING WAYS TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF CREATIVE PLACEMAKING,
launching this month, February 2020.
You can join us in real time or catch video recordings on your own time. The learning circle will convene five times through this spring, with flexible participation options. The first session
is Thursday, February 20, 2020 @ noon EDT. To sign on, or for more information, contact Barbara Schaffer Bacon,
bsbacon@artsusa.org
What are we learning about?
NeighborWorks America's
Success Measures Evaluation Group and
Americans for the Arts are partnering to support the development of
a suite of field-tested evaluation tools aimed at helping local arts and community development organizations better understand and report the value of creative placemaking initiatives. Success Measures has developed creative placemaking additions to their
community development evaluation modules related to Community Engagement
and Physical Improvements.
The Learning Circle will serve as a sounding board on tool content, use scenarios, identifying the best ways to assist LAAs to use the tools in the future. This is supported by the National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Knowledge Building Project.
How will it work?
We will gather virtually for (via Zoom ) five times between February and June 2020. At each session the Success Measures team will introduce a few of the tools, describe anticipated uses, and share results from early field testing. Then we’ll open an
exchange.
Exploring Ways to Evaluate the Impact of Creative Placemaking
launches Feb 20
with a bonus introduction to Success Measures and the Success Measures Data System (SMDS) that will be the base for these new creative placemaking evaluation tools.
For more information or join the learning circle, contact Barbara Schaffer Bacon,
bsbacon@artsusa.org.
THANKS, Barbara
Barbara Schaffer Bacon
Co-director, Animating Democracy
Americans for the Arts
413-253-1711
bsbacon@artsusa.org
Animating Democracy is a program of
Americans for the Arts that works to inspire, inform, promote and connect arts as a contributor to community, civic, and social change.