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Events
Humanizing Evaluation: Shared Community and Institutional Leadership in Diabetes Prevention and Management
We’re proud to share that Kayla will be participating as a panelist, bringing her perspective on community engagement and evaluation.
Join the Minnesota Department of Human Services Office for Equity and Inclusion on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, from 1:45 – 2:45 p.m. for an important conversation on diabetes prevention and management.
This session, co-led by the Minnesota Department of Health, KA Nicholas Consulting, and community organizations, explores root challenges and solutions identified in partnership with rural American Indian communities and urban Black American descendants of slaves. Panelists will discuss how to build trust, foster meaningful engagement, and sustain relationships beyond State-led projects.
This is a virtual event, join here!
For more information, visit: Inclusion and Engagement Events
Business-to-Business Fair at The Coven - St. Louis Park
The Business-to-Business Fair is designed to bring together consultants, service providers, and entrepreneurs under one roof to explore partnerships, discover opportunities, and grow stronger together.
Whether you’re attending to connect or exhibiting to showcase your work, this event is about building relationships that help businesses thrive.
📅 Date: October 22, 2025
📍 Location: The Coven – St. Louis Park
⏰ Time: 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
🎯 Who It’s For: Business owners, consultants, and service providers looking to expand their reach and build valuable connections.
💲 Cost: Free for Coven members | $25 for non-members
Registration required!
Want to attend? Sign up here!
Want to be an Exhibitor? Sign up here!
2025 AFCPE® Symposium
Excited to share that Bridgepoint Evaluation and Build Wealth, Minnesota will be speaking at the 2025 AFCPE® Symposium this November in Phoenix! ☀️📊
Our breakout session— "Putting It into Practice: Innovation, Updates, and Ideas, Teaching, Coaching, and Tracking Change"— dives into what actually works when it comes to financial capability training.
Together, we’ll explore:
✅ How financial education, coaching, and counseling intersect
✅ What it takes to track progress in ways that honor both data and lived experience
✅ How evaluation can help programs adapt, improve, and amplify impact
If you’re attending AFCPE, come join the conversation! We’re looking forward to connecting with fellow practitioners, researchers, and change-makers working to build financial well-being across communities.
NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference
Bridgepoint Evaluation will be presenting at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference! Come see us in Baltimore and we’ll talk about how to take your findings to the next level through collaborative decision making.
Learn more about Kayla’s talk here.
MINN Conference: Digital Pathways to Engagement
Discover how to design virtual spaces that are vibrant hubs of deep, meaningful engagement. Explore intuitive and dynamic platforms like Padlet, Mural, and Miro, each uniquely designed to foster thoughtful collaboration and connection during synchronous or asynchronous communications. Learn about best practices to create secure Zoom environments that are safe from Zoom bombing or hacking. Through real-world case studies, Kayla will demonstrate how these tools can ignite impactful, lasting engagement while sharing the best tips on creating secure and safe environments. Leave this session prepared to confidently design and lead a virtual experience that brings your community closer together.
Register at the MINN Summit website!
MINN Conference: Decolonizing Development Education
From January to May 2024, the University of Minnesota’s Masters of Development Practice (MDP) community embarked upon a learning journey focused on decolonization and a series of deep engagements designed to foster collaborative examination of current practices and future opportunities for decolonizing development practice education. During this session, audience members will learn about our collaborative design approach and strategies used to foster equitable access and participation. We will share our practices for engaging faculty, alumni, staff, and current students through in-person and remote sessions that sought to enable examination of and reflection on the program experience and future form. Importantly, we will share successes, challenges and limitations.
Register for the conference at the MINN Summit website
Identifying Data Gaps
Join me (virtually or in person) as I share some tips for Identifying and Filling your Data Gaps to tell your full story. I'll share my agenda so you can work with your internal team to examine your current data sources, identify your gaps to telling your full story of impact, and devise some strategies for filling those gaps.
We’ll be meeting at The Coven St. Louis Park, located at 6726 Walker Street, St. Louis Park MN! Sign up to receive the link to join virtually and event reminders: https://forms.gle/ZQThCazCiH5aBH41A
Identifying and Filling Data Gaps to Tell Your Full Story
Nonprofit Learning Lab
Have you ever felt like your data tells only part of your story, or you have lots of disparate data points and are struggling to put them all together? This session will give you A Plan To Plan: you will walk away with a facilitator agenda to identify what you know, where you have data gaps, and how you will fill them.
AI use in Evaluation: Sharing Practices and Insights
Minnesota Evaluation Association Webinar
Join MNEA as we bring together three evaluators to share their top uses/practices and lightly demonstrate how they leverage AI in various aspects of their evaluation work.
Publications
Chapagain, S.P., Cruz, A., Mueller, K., and Dahal, K. (2014). Khayar (Acacia catechu): A plant with potential for multiple economic uses. In Rai and Chapagain (Eds.), Value Chain Analysis of Forest Products in Koshi Hill Districts of Nepal: Challenges and Opportunities for Economic Growth (pp. 196-229). ForestAction Nepal and RRN, Kathmandu.
Chapagain, S.P., Mueller, K., Cruz, A., and Dahal, K. (2014). Khote Salla (Chir Pine): A plant highly potential for multiple commercial uses. In Rai and Chapagain (Eds.), Value Chain Analysis of Forest Products in Koshi Hill Districts of Nepal: Challenges and Opportunities for Economic Growth (pp. 230-274). ForestAction Nepal and RRN, Kathmandu.