OUR PURPOSE

Provide a regional, interdisciplinary forum for professional development, networking and exchange of ideas related to evaluation and local evaluation issues.

Promote evaluation as an integral component of human services, education, health, criminal justice, and other fields.

Promote the understanding, use and benefit of evaluation results in organizational planning and program improvement.

Promote dialogue among evaluation stakeholders about the benefits of evaluation research.

Promote diversity and equity as essential for excellence in evaluation principle and practice.