Continuous learning is a guiding principle of the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland
 

We seek to organize information and evidence appropriately to improve practices and strategies and facilitate reporting, reflecting and sharing. Since 2019, we have aligned our evaluation and learning practices with the Equitable Evaluation Framework™ to be in service of equity and better reflect the context of the communities we aim to uplift.
 
We do our best work when we are among community leaders, those families, young people or Catholic sisters we seek to support. We hear their questions, concerns and desires, and we realized they don’t always match the approaches we used, the data we collected or the results we assumed we would find.
 
Through critical conversations and learning about how the Equitable Evaluation Framework™ may be integrated into our practices, we use these three entry points to inform our evaluative work:

• Our efforts must account for the cultural contexts and structural conditions that surround our interventions, initiatives and partnerships.
• We can only define success when we define it with those affected.
• We use approaches and methods that result in different forms of knowledge.