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Introduction: Helen Chauncey explains why the Coexistence Initiative does evaluations.


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The Purpose of Evaluations
Helen Chauncey
The Coexistence Initiative
Interviewed by
Julian Portilla
2003

We see several types of activities, each pegged to what I call program accountability. I'll give you a list of our activities and I'll note that each time we do one of these it's incumbent upon us to step back from it and say, "What are the lessons we have learned?" Then 6 months, 1 year, 2 years down the line do a health check on what we thought we learned in order to perpetually widen the circle. If you want to think of this as a spiral, we want the circumference of the circle to be ever larger as we move forward.

 
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions. -- Barbara Deming

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