Evaluating Impact

As service providers around the country take on poverty in all its complexity, too little is known about what is working and why. Notre Dame’s Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) helps service providers apply scientific evaluation methods to better understand and share effective poverty interventions. Join LEO’s Senior Associate Director of Policy and Impact Rachel Fulcher Dawson as she uncovers LEO’s unique approach to improving the lives of the most vulnerable members of our communities, as well as hear from a panel of poverty researchers and providers.

Hosted by King County (Seattle, WA) & The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities at Notre Dame, Evidence Matters is a series of virtual events designed to engage and inspire community partners, researchers, and policymakers as they work together tackling the biggest issues those in poverty face. This partnership pairs top researchers with passionate leaders in the social service sector to conduct impact evaluations that identify the innovative, effective, and scalable programs and policies that help people move permanently out of poverty.

Featured Speakers:

• Carrie Cihak, King County Evidence & Impact Officer
• Rachel Fulcher Dawson, Senior Associate Director of Policy and Impact at the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities
• Maria Jimenez Zepeda, ORCA Reduced Fare Project Program Manager at King County Metro Transit
• Lori Mimms, Research Lead at King County Metro Transit
• Rohit Nalmpally, Senior Research and Policy Manager, J-PAL North America
• Judis Santos, Lifeline Transportation Program Manager at Metropolitan Commission/Association of Bay Area Governments

Partner with LEO

The Evidence Matters series is sponsored on ThinkND by the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). Poverty is stubborn and requires the utmost collaboration of thought and action to drive change. People of goodwill must bring their unique strengths and positions together to solve this problem. At LEO, we believe knowledge has to be combined with action. But poverty can’t be solved by just one person, or even one sector. That’s why we bring together innovative social service provider partners, top-tier academics, philanthropists, policymakers, and others to tackle poverty.

Change is possible. And with your action, we can get one step closer to reducing poverty in our country, together. 

Your job is to act. What will you do?

For more information, please visit LEO’s website.