By Ena Taguiam and Darnesha Tabor What Happens When You Invite AI Into an Outcome Evaluation? Last month, we wrapped up WomenStrong International’s outcome evaluation , which explored two main questions: (1) how are organizations building strength and resilience given WomenStrong’s support, and, (2) in what ways have partners changed over the past few years. Given the subtleties of what we were classifying as outcomes – changes within organizations that may not yet have manifested in external...

In times of crisis, organizations must tap all their people assets  by Malaika Cheney-Coker Together She came to us with the confidence of the uninitiated, expecting that we, her higher ups would have a plan. It was 2020, the year pandemonium broke loose—the pandemic, then the racial reckoning in the U.S. after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Companies, already scrambling to adjust to work-from-home mandates and financial upheaval, now had to formulate long-overdue stances and...

By Malaika Cheney-Coker In times of great upheaval or uncertainty, say pandemics or life-altering presidential elections, an inevitable cliche rears its head. It goes something like this – that we can create something new and desirable out of the muck. We’ll put emphasis here on the word “create” and its implication that, rather than grit our teeth and endure till the good times eventually roll in, we can play a role in parting the gloom. We can craft, feather by feather, the wings to bear us...