The Core Skills Toolkit is a collection of practical, easy-to-use resources and insights curated by the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) to help new and small community groups and not-for-profit organisations thrive.

This session with CSI associates Kathryn Nemec and Rachael Trotman will provide practical tools to design and implement your own evaluation, communicate your value and impact, and use your evaluation findings to shape your work. This is ‘real talk’ about evaluation for those at the coalface, to support you to do your own evaluation effectively and with ease. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn and network!

About the presenters:

Kathryn Nemec offers research, evaluation, and project management support to CSI and its clients, with a particular interest in participating grant making, capability development and the use of evaluation to improve organisations. As a community psychologist, she has extensive experience consulting for not-for-profit, local government, and philanthropic sectors. Kathryn brings a values-driven, collaborative approach to support organisations to demonstrate their impact.

Rachael Trotman is a social researcher and evaluator whose work includes facilitation, mentoring, writing and advisory work for a range of organisations, from grass roots community groups to philanthropic bodies and government agencies. Her passions are supporting people to know and show the difference they make and undertaking applied research and evaluative work that effects positive change in the world.

Rachael is the Coordinator of Ngā Tau Tuangahuru - the Maori and Pacific Education Initiative Longitudinal Study and Lead Evaluator for the Gulf Innovation Fund Together (GIFT). She is also involved in diverse CSI programmes of work with a range of funders and organisations.

Rachael holds an MA (Hons) and a post-graduate diploma in Human Ecology.