The Bay Area Environmental Education
Evaluation Learning Community
July 2004
Dear Colleague:
Better together. These two words convey what participants in the Bay Area Environmental Education Evaluation Learning Community have demonstrated through their collaborative activities since June 2003. More than 25 environmental education program providers, evaluation specialists and foundation officials have engaged in a series of learning experiences to:
• Build a common base of knowledge about environmental education research and evaluation
• Develop a logic model to explain how environmental knowledge and awareness can result in pro-environmental behavior
• Create a plan, based on the logic model, to increase capacity for evaluation of environmental education in the San Francisco Bay region.
The documents downloadable from the bottom of this web page capture the knowledge that has been developed through this process. Specifically, the contents include:
Learning Community Final Documents
.. Final Learning Community Report
.. Final Logic Model
.. Regional Framework PowerPoint
.. Summary Report for Organization Use
Evaluation Tools Database
Individual Session Notes and Selected Presentations
.. Situation Analysis PowerPoint
.. Measuring Results PowerPoint
.. Notes for each of the seven sessions
Congratulations to all the learning community participants for this important contribution to advancing environmental education in the Bay Area and beyond. Special thanks to the learning community facilitator, Jack Chin of Blueprint Research & Design, for guiding the learning process. We are also indebted to the many evaluators who have shared their expertise and tools with us.
Use of these documents is encouraged by the sponsors of the learning community to spread the knowledge that has been collected and synthesized. However, as you do so, we ask that you follow these guidelines:
Learning Community Documents. Please feel free to reproduce any document in full but please do not edit the content. You should also feel free to quote a part of any document. In either case, we ask that you credit the sponsors, with a copyright credit below/nearby stating:
© Blueprint Research & Design, Inc., East Bay Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Peninsula Community Foundation and The San Francisco Foundation 2004.
Evaluation Tools Database. When using any of the tools contained in the database, please provide proper credit to the author(s) of the particular tool. In most cases, the appropriate information can be found in the author field of the database and/or on the pdf file or web-site to which the database is linked.
For further information, please feel free to contact any of the sponsors or the learning community facilitator:
Carol Welsh Gray
Executive Director
Center for Venture Philanthropy
Peninsula Community Foundation
2744 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
P: (650) 854-5566 x251
Don Jen
Program Officer
Marin Community Foundation
5 Hamilton Landing, Suite 200
Novato, CA 94949
P: (415) 464-2525
Arlene Rodriguez
Environment Program Officer
San Francisco Foundation
225 Bush Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94014
P: (415) 733-8500
Bob Uyeki
Program Officer
East Bay Community Foundation
200 Frank Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, CA 94612
P: (510) 208-0809
Jack Chin
Senior Analyst
Blueprint Research & Design, Inc.
720 Market Street, Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94102
P: 415.677.9700
We hope that you will find this knowledge useful for improving environmental education practice and results.
Learning Community Sponsors
East Bay Community Foundation
Marin Community Foundation
Peninsula Community Foundation
The San Francisco Foundation
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