January 12, 2026

Join us for our second convening at Georgetown University for a one-day convening to better understand our current evidence landscape and what steps we can take to improve it:

• Lessons learned: why initiatives stall,  lose support, or succeed, and what incentives made a difference.

• Positive outliers: how people have innovated in the sector to challenge or redesign incentives for better evidence outcomes

• Where to focus next: where we, as a sector, should focus our collective efforts to improve evidence creation, sharing, and use

Register today!

February 8th to 9th, 2024

Initiatives to reduce data-related barriers for nonprofit organizations are proliferating. There is a growing body of evidence regarding the impact and lack of impact of such initiatives. In light of this, organizers saw reason to bring people together to think more broadly about the role of evaluations in the social services ecosystem and the conditions in which they take place. This convening was organized to spur a discussion about the underlying incentives and disincentives that shape how evidence is created, used, and shared in the social services ecosystem.

Read the convening report for more details.