Gulf Coast Eval Network

GCEval is a community that champions high quality evaluation through capacity building, peer learning, professional development, and networking.

GCEval provides meetings, workshops, co-working opportunities, training, and coaching useful for both members who have years of experience in evaluation and those new to the field. Our events allow evaluators, consultants and other practitioners from a range of sectors to connect with each other, share knowledge and explore ways to collaborate. We also work to connect evaluators with organizations who are looking for evaluation services. Our goal is to increase awareness and understanding about the field of evaluation throughout the Gulf Coast. We help organizations adopt evaluation practices and run workshops for the general public that explore what evaluation looks like in practice and how people can start doing it.

Our Values:

1. Inspire growth:
- Ask meaningful questions of ourselves and of those with whom we work
- Build institutional self-awareness & cultural competence
- Reflect about whether our actions are improving the lives of people around us

2. Nurture Partnership:
- Promote an atmosphere of partnership and encourage connections
- Value shared knowledge
- Appreciate and respect the strengths and diverse approaches of all members

3. Choose Integrity
- Elevate and amplify marginalized experiences through disaggregating data to tell stories
- Advance clear, evidence-informed decision-making and inspire action to do what is just
- Further the knowledge to break from the confines of harmful routines