Jan Yost and Empowerment Evaluation

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President, Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts

Jan B. Yost, an author in latest Empowerment Evaluation book, is the president of the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts, a regional community health foundation. She describes the evolving philanthropic landscape from disinterested benevolence to an interest in accountability. Empowerment evaluation is viewed as a conduit for achieving results. Jan explains how funders can operationalize empowerment evaluation using her foundation as an example, focusing on the partnership between grantee, funder, and evaluator.  

See her chapter in:  Empowerment Evaluation:  Knowledge and Tools for Self-assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability (Sage Publications).