Susan G. Zepeda is president and CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. Before joining the foundation in 2005, she was the first CEO of The HealthCare Foundation for Orange County. Earlier, she had served as director of the San Luis Obispo County Health Agency and CEO of that county’s general hospital. Susan is on the board of the Kentucky Institute of Medicine and the Southeastern Council of Foundations. She holds degrees from Brown University, the University of Arizona, and International College and has completed the CDC-sponsored Public Health Leadership Institute and Harvard University’s Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives.
A5. A Partnership Model: Co-designing Evaluation with Grantees
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 11:00 AM–12:15 PM EDT
Martha’s Vineyard B (Main Lobby Level)
Session Designer:
Susan G. Zepeda, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky
Session Description
The grantee playing field is not level. Nonprofits have vastly different degrees of experience with grantwriting, grants management and program evaluation. These differences make it difficult for small organizations and under-resourced communities to compete for grant opportunities and to make decisions that improve their work. During this session, speakers will share their experiences working to reduce access disparities for grantseekers by transforming evaluation rigor from a hurdle for grantees to something co-designed, more respectful and mutually beneficial. Through a series of small-group conversations, participants will discuss how and when to use collaborative evaluation approaches for a variety of grant types and contexts, such as using planning years in multiyear grants and co-developing evaluation reporting forms. Participants will leave the session with a solid understanding of existing barriers to meaningful and participatory evaluation and tools to overcome these barriers, along with examples of how these tools are applied by foundations.
Primary Points Of Contact
Susan , Zepeda
Session Designers
Susan Zepeda, Foundation for a Health Kentucky
Speakers
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Madeleine Frey, Healthcare Georgia Foundation
Speaker Biography
Madeleine Frey, director of evaluation, joined the Foundation in May 2012 and is responsible for the coordination and integration of evaluation strategies for Foundation grants and initiatives, as well as implementation of the Georgia Evaluation Resource Center (ERC). The ERC is suite of evaluation tools and services provided and managed by the Foundation tailored to help nonprofit health organizations achieve better outcomes.
Prior to joining Healthcare Georgia Foundation, Madeleine served as a Program Manager with the Center for Community Health and Evaluation in Seattle, WA, where she worked on the design of the ERC and other evaluation projects in Kentucky, California, and Washington State. Her previous public health experience focused on a wide variety of public health issues, including research on alcohol misuse in veteran populations, teen access to reproductive health education and services, and evaluating the effectiveness of community health worker programs in East Timor.
Madeleine earned her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Washington's community-oriented public health practice program, and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from Smith College.
![[photo]](https://8ca84662c5b8f0cff50d-4baaaf97d63fd7b01243e1b1c57f0cc1.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/38/profile_aeca7c96a9e8b14cbb1bf2872ab0e77d.png "Maggie Jones, Center for Community Health and Evaluation")
Maggie Jones, Center for Community Health and Evaluation
Speaker Biography
As manager of evaluation services, Maggie oversees CCHE’s portfolio of evaluation projects. She leads many of CCHE's large scale evaluation efforts related to community health improvement, clinical quality improvement, health policy, health equity, and public health training programs. Maggie’s work has focused on providing health-related organizations with the information, tools and resources they need to more effectively achieve their goals and build their evaluation capacity. She holds a BS in business from the University of Minnesota and an MPH from the University of Washington.
![[photo]](https://8ca84662c5b8f0cff50d-4baaaf97d63fd7b01243e1b1c57f0cc1.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/39/profile_d4252214cb2b027bcf7a70af6e875608.png "Susan G. Zepeda, Foundation for a Health Kentucky")
Susan G. Zepeda, Foundation for a Health Kentucky
Speaker Biography