Participatory Evaluation for Researchers: Super Team Guide | Issue 9 of 12

You are writing a proposal. Maybe it is an NSF CAREER award, maybe a multi-institutional partnership grant, maybe a supplement to strengthen an existing project. Somewhere in that proposal, you need an evaluation section. And right now, you are staring at a blank page wondering how to describe what you plan to do, because most of the evaluation sections you have read feel hollow, disconnected from the actual work. You know there has to be a better way to show reviewers that your program will generate real evidence of impact. There is. And it starts with rethinking where evaluation lives in your proposal.