Robert Bowne Foundation

It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly two years since we announced that the Robert Bowne Foundation will close its doors on December 31, 2015. We have achieved so much in that time!

Working with grantees and other partners, we began implementing our plan to preserve the foundation’s legacy. We are:

• Documenting and disseminating what we have learned from our years of experience in supporting OST programs; and
• Promoting the sustainability of our grantees by helping them to build their organizational capacity.
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The Robert Bowne Foundation hosted Using Evaluation to Inform Everyday Program Decisions on January 27, 2012. The topic of evaluation has appeared consistently on participants’ lists of potential topics for a Networking meeting.

Anne Lawrence, program officer for the Foundation, welcomed participants and reminded all of the purpose of the networking meetings: to offer a forum for participants from across the city and a range of out-of-school time (OST) programs to come together to share their work and to dialogue on important issues in the field. They are structured as an opportunity to hear ideas, discuss and share with others, and develop some new ideas for your program. They are not meant to be workshops. She noted that evaluation is a weighty topic, one that could easily merit months or even years of study, but that the intention here was to take a practical look at how the process can be used to inform program-based decision making.