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Inside Out Leadership Series

Evaluating Nature-Based Youth Development Programs with Hello Insight

In this interactive webinar, Cynthia Weaver, Senior Associate with The Annie E. Casey Foundation, will share the importance of evaluation as a tool to improve outcomes and communicate impact as a program and a sector. Hello Insight co-founder and COO Sally Munemitsu will preview exciting new data showing how nature positively enhances youth development outcomes. Courtney Aber, National YMCA BOLD & GOLD Director, will share her experience with piloting the evaluation tool last summer and Monica Lopez Magee, C&NN’s Senior VP of Cities & Community Engagement, will discuss how this aligns with research on the benefits of combining nature and  youth development. You’ll be able to ask questions to determine if this tool is right for you to get real-time feedback on your program and better tell your impact story.

FREE. Everyone is welcome.

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WHEN

November 5, 2021

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT

COST

Free

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Speakers

Courtney Aber

National YMCA BOLD & GOLD Director

After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Courtney Aber decided to spend one summer leading outdoor trips before getting a “real” job. That one summer led to an entirely different and deeply rewarding career that has included every position in outdoor trip programming from instructor to course director to logistics to education specialist. Today, she shares her love of the outdoors as national director for the YMCA’s BOLD & GOLD program. BOLD & GOLD brings together diverse youth from different backgrounds to learn and live together in the outdoors. She believes that outdoor programs can be the single most impactful experience in a young person’s life and takes pride in being part of a program that helps them see how amazing they are. Learn more about BOLD & GOLD.

Monica Lopez Magee

Sr. VP, Cities and Community Engagement

Monica Lopez Magee helps city and community leaders develop programs, policies, and partnerships to provide children and families access to nature and its many health and academic benefits. She draws upon her master’s degree in Public Leadership from the LBJ School of Public Affairs, undergraduate studies in environmental science, a decade leading and facilitating youth and family programs in New York City and Houston, TX, and her cultural heritage to create nature-based solutions that prioritize communities of color, transform public spaces, and foster love and stewardship of the natural world. Her dedication to the outdoors carries into her personal life where she serves on an Austin, TX independent school district advisory committee, enjoys gardening, and volunteers with her family.

Sally Munemitsu

Co-Founder and COO, Hello Insight

Sally (she/her) builds and manages Hello Insight’s internal and external relationships to ensure that our work together is meaningful and efficient. Sally has specialized in program and grants management and capacity building for more than 25 years and has particular expertise in developing and implementing capacity building initiatives and the utilization of evaluation data to improve program design and implementation. In her role as COO, Sally manages all of Hello Insight’s large-scale partnerships. Current partners include Y-USA, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Elma Philanthropies, the New York Community Trust, and the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. Prior to Hello Insight, Sally was the Director of Program/Grants Management and Capacity Building at TCC Group. Sally is a Wharton Lauder MBA-MA graduate from the University of Pennsylvania.

Cynthia Weaver, PhD

Senior Associate, The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Cynthia manages the behavioral health portfolio for the Evidence-based Practice Group at The Annie E. Casey Foundation, where she works to increase the supply of tested effective prevention programs for children, youth, and families, with a special focus on racial equity and inclusion. Her work leverages the best of implementation science to support future scale and sustainability for promising programs designed to keep children and families out of public systems and in their homes and communities.

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