B1. Breakthrough Strategies to Create a Meaningful Learning Environment
Session Designer
Rosanna Tran, California HealthCare Foundation
Session Description
Foundation staff members responsible for leading organizational learning initiatives are taking creative approaches to fostering a culture of inquiry and incorporate reflection into the everyday work. One foundation is using an internal learning community as a formative evaluation tool and opportunity to help program officers redefine their roles within a new grantmaking strategy. Another is applying crowdsourcing and other ground-up techniques to build buy-in and engagement for learning. Yet another grantmaker is developing annual learning agendas to guide learning efforts. Through an interactive interview format, participants will explore the distinct approaches of three funders to foster learning among foundation staff, as well as anticipate challenges and opportunities in their own learning work moving forward.
Session Learning Goals
Through this session participants will:
--Learn processes to build staff engagement for learning, as well as the importance of creating a safe space for regular peer dialogue and collective problem-solving.
Session Type
Breakout
Speakers
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Rosanna Tran, California HealthCare Foundation
Biography
Rosanna Tran is an evaluation officer at the California HealthCare Foundation, where she partners with staff to document the impact of program work and leads organizational learning efforts to improve the Foundation's grantmaking.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Rosanna designed and implemented evaluations for domestic violence and problem-gambling interventions. Her previous experience includes work in HIV prevention and care, language access, and cultural competence at AIDS Services in Asian Communities in Philadelphia.
Rosanna earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Fatima Angeles, The California Wellness Foundation
Biography
Fatima Angeles is director of evaluation and organizational learning for The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF). She joined the Foundation in February 1998 as a program director, where she managed a grantmaking initiative and two portfolios.
Before joining TCWF, Fatima was a program associate at The Hasbro Children’s Foundation. Fatima served as director of the South of Market Teen Center and project coordinator for Asian American Communities Against AIDS.
Fatima serves as board member for Grantmakers In Health and Northern California Grantmakers. She previously served as chair of the board of the Asian and Pacific Islander Health Forum.
She earned her master’s degree in public health from Columbia University and her bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Allison Metz, Ph.D., Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
Biography
Allison Metz, a developmental psychologist, is Associate Director of the National Implementation Research Network and Scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Metz's work focuses on the implementation of evidence-based and evidence-informed practices. She has expertise in implementation science, organizational and systems change, and coaching. Metz is an editor of the forthcoming volume The Application of Implementation Science to Early Childhood Programs and Systems. She is an invited presenter on topics related to implementation science internationally and works with the Global Implementation Initiative to improve the science and practice of implementation. Metz is currently working with The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust on their implementation of the Healthy Places North Carolina Initiative.