About Inspire to Change
Our Vision
A whole, beautiful, and just world.
Our Mission
To support purpose-driven change and changemakers around the globe.
Our Guiding Principles
Be & Become, Remember & Create, Learn & Unlearn, Disrupt & Liberate.
Our Intended Impacts
Supports purpose-driven and principles guided people as agents of individual growth, social change, and environmental restoration
Lives and acts with an awareness of the wholeness and the interconnectedness of all living systems
Cultivates the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities, organizations, societies, and the environment
Our Approach
CREATIVE EVALUATION AND ENGAGEMENT
Creative Evaluation and Engagement (CE&E) is shorthand for developmental, principles-focused, arts-infused evaluation for social change. The CE&E framework is a particular way of learning and adapting for complex, equity-focused social change work. CE&E is co-creative, full-sensory, place-based, culturally grounded, principles-driven, and responsive. CE&E weaves together funders, organizational staff, community members, artists, and creative evaluators to support coherent and collaborative change.
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Creative Evaluation and Engagement (CE&E) operates at the intersection of critical evaluative thinking, creative engagement, and social justice, where co-creation, mutual respect, and community change can thrive and support transformation personally and collectively.
Our Theory
Creative Evaluation and Engagement (CE&E) theory was developed by Nora Murphy Johnson, A. Rafael Johnson, and Michael Quinn Patton. The theory is based on the following understandings about people and transformative change:
People are whole beings: heart, mind, body, spirit
People are social beings living in community
Relationships are at the center of individual and community health
White supremacy, colonialism, and other forms of oppression have generated structural and systemic inequalities
Art unlocks and engages the whole human experience
The principles that guide CE&E are:
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Be & Become
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Remember & Create
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Learn & Unlearn
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Disrupt & Liberate
CE&E Core Practices
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Support purpose-driven and principles-guided people as agents of individual growth, social change, and environmental restoration
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Live and act with an awareness of the wholeness and interconnectedness of all living systems
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Cultivate the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities, organizations, societies, and the environment
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Utilize artistic expression as both means and ends, both process and outcome
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Break down barriers that separate; nurture interconnections and interdependencies
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Engage in the continuous work of aligning, learning, adapting, and embodying
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Moving from one adjacent possibility to the next in pursuit of a transformative vision
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Inspire for change; and
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Walk the talk
Meet Our Team
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Nora Murphy Johnson, PHD
President and CEO
A. Rafael Johnson, MFA
Vice President
Christopheraaron Deanes, MA, EdS
Education Lead
Janeen Manuel, PHD, RN
Lead Researcher
Viktoriya Petrenko,
Qualitative Data Manager
Jeb Harrilal, BA
Operations and Alignment Coordinator
Arianna Diaz-Celon, BA
Network Coordinator
Amanda Bennett
Director of Cultural Insights
Our Collaborators & Alumni
Glenda Eoyang, Founding Executive Director,
Human Systems Dynamics Institute
Royce Holladay, Director of Services,
Human Systems Dynamics Institute
Kristin Johnstad Senior Consultant,
Johnstad and Associates
Michael Quinn Patton, Founder and CEO,
Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Nancy Plaskett, MA, Interim Director,
PIE Org, https://www.pieorg.org/
Frances Roen, Founder + CEO,
Fundraising Sol
Heid Erdrich
Bryan Odhiambo, Lead Graphic Desginer
Portfolio
Shanthi Cambala, MPH
Qualitative Data Manager
Charmagne Patton-Campbell, Director of
Organizational Learning and Evaluation,
Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Sandra J. Agustín, BA, Director of Creative Engagement
Molly O'Connor, Creative Evaluator & Founder, Coco Canary Consulting LLC, https://cococanary.com/
Our Clients
