Evaluation Podcast - Episode 2 - Marie Zimmerman @ Hillside Festival by Ontario Nonprofit Network

2017.01.31
Interviewee: Marie Zimmerman, Hillside Festival (http://hillsidefestival.ca/)
Music: Podington Bear

For more information on ONN's Sector Driven Evaluation Strategy, visit: theonn.ca/our-work/our-structures/evaluation/

Thanks to the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration for supporting this work.

1:16
Introducing Marie and Hillside Festival
1:55
How does Hillside build its culture of learning and evaluation?
3:02
Why is it important for Hillside to do evaluation?
4:50
Do you have to convince people to look at evaluation data?
5:46
Asking the right questions
7:08
Example of doing a survey/research that led to insight.
Reference: Assessing the Intrinsic Impacts of a Live Performance by Alan Brown and Jennifer Novak (http://wolfbrown.com/images/books_reports/documents/ImpactStudyFinalVersionFullReport.pdf)
9:54
Impact of Hillside on Andrew’s family
10:31
How do you justify evaluation in an era when resources are limited and it is difficult just to keep your head above water?
11:59
A story of failure
15:38
Could funders work with you to help you do evaluation better? Or is the situation fine as is?
18:20
It’s not only about how much we spend.
19:04
What would you change in the evaluation system to make it work better for you?
19:53
Where is the nonprofit sector's Alan Brown?
20:59
Favourite act or moment from Hillside