Las Vegas: Getting to What Matters Workshop

Nevada Volunteers is hosting three public workshops in Las Vegas, Reno, and Winnemucca to highlight the role of evaluation to prove your program’s impact. Below is information regarding the Las Vegas workshop. Please register for the workshop and select the location you will attend.

All of us who work with people need a way both to prove – and improve – our impact in the lives of those we serve. We need data to demonstrate what we are doing is making a difference. We also need data to illuminate areas where we can get better, and to show us how to get better. Too often we are influenced by a singular anecdote, or an idea-like program satisfaction, or superficial metrics that miss the deeper, more durable, more meaningful aspects of human progress and development. We need better ways to evaluate what really matters. This workshop will show us how.

Based on the work from over a decade of capacity-building with hundreds of programs and agencies across North America – including Nevada Volunteers AmeriCorps State programs – Steve Patty, Ph.D. will bring innovative thinking and proven techniques to help prove and improve our impact.

Dr. Patty obtained his Ph.D. from Trinity International University and has been trained at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a former academic chair at Multnomah University and department chair in the doctoral program of business at the International University of Monaco. He resides in Portland, OR and consults, speaks, and facilitates courses with leadership teams throughout North America and Europe.