Mission
Strengthening social impact investments and strategies to be accountable for achieving pragmatic and measurable results for people and communities. Designing and implementing evaluation and knowledge-building approaches that engage people in complex systems change that strives to be ethical, equitable, anticolonial, and antiracist.
“In most of the evaluations I have managed or conducted, rarely is the challenge about measuring the program’s intent or evidence of effectiveness – the challenge is usually the system and context issues that prevent quality implementation and equitable results.“
KEL Advising PRINCIPAL 2021 to present
Hawai‘i Community Foundation VICE PRESIDENT FOR EVALUATION & IMPACT 2012 to 2020
Annie E. Casey Foundation ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF EVALUATION 1999 to 2012
Evaluation consulting 1990 to 1999
Education
The George Washington University 1995
Master of Public Health (MPH), Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Harvard College 1986
AB cum laude gs, Psychology & Social Relations
Leadership
American Evaluation Association DIRECTOR 2020 to 2022
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations DIRECTOR 2011 to 2016
Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers DIRECTOR 2009 to 2012
Advising, Facilitation & Collaboration
Foundation Evaluation Directors, Community Foundation Knowledge Group, Funder & Evaluator Affinity Network, Philanthropy Northwest Regional Community Foundation Network Steering Committee, American Evaluation Association Guiding Principles Task Force, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations CEO Search Committee, The Foundation Review manuscript reviewer
Recent Presentations
Conference Keynote 2021 to 2030: Mapping Hawai‘i’s Evaluation Future, Hawai‘i Pacific Evaluation Association, Oct 12, 2020. https://vimeo.com/468762357
Training Workshop Planning and Managing an Evaluation Contract: What the textbooks do not teach us, Hawai‘i Pacific Evaluation Association, July 23, 2020.
Recent Publication
Evaluating for the Bigger Picture: Breaking Through the Learning and Evaluation Barriers to Advancing Community Systems-Change Field Knowledge. 2019. Kelly, T., Brown, P., Yu, H. C., & Colombo, M. The Foundation Review, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.9707/1944-5660.1469
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