YAM CAM: A Film Screening for Youth, By Youth
By Evan Read Armstrong
Interim Director, Youth Active Media
By Evan Read Armstrong
Interim Director, Youth Active Media
This may be the easiest assignment Vickie and I have ever had.
The good folks at the Plan Institute and Tamarack Institute have asked us to host a webinar series on the ingenuity of people with disabilities and their families.
Easy, because innovation is the core competency of people with disabilities and their families.
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Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) is dedicated to the holistic transformation of communities in and around Memphis, Tennessee. Using the principles of Communities of Shalom, we strive to engage, equip, and mobilize others to seek shalom in their neighborhoods and communities.
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We live in a world where addressing complex social issues most often involves working tirelessly to bring groups and communities together to work against existing social norms and “beat the odds,” which are stacked against us. We see small numbers of individuals work their way out of the systems that are built to work against them, yet we often don’t ever realize the results we are hoping for. What if we shifted the way we approach social change from beating the odds and overcoming adversity to changing the system itself, shifting the norms of our society to level the playing field?
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In Tamarack’s Evaluating Community Impact Community of Practice, Mark Cabaj and Liz Weaver remind us that traditional evaluation tends to focus on evaluating the effects of discrete, programmatic interventions. This approach is not well suited to assist social innovators in addressing complex issues embedded in diverse and often fast moving contexts. The question becomes how do we complement the traditional focus of program evaluation with a broader focus on evaluating changes at the system level? And how do we, as evaluators, improve the probabilities that evaluation feedback is timely, relevant, and used?
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Responding to the 21st century’s enormous global challenges such as: climate change; food sustainability; health; education; environmental degradation; and, wealth creation while also realizing its unsurpassed opportunities requires new ways of acting and organizing.
My new book, Change for the Audacious: A Doer’s Guide, is for people working on these types of issues but anchored in the perspective that we can create a future that is not just “sustainable”, but also flourishing. Our collective challenge is to see this work as not just one of incremental change, but also as one of transformation – radical change in the way we perceive our world, create relationships and organize our societies.
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