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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Building a Culture of Evaluation (October 23, 2026)</title>
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  &lt;strong&gt;Building a Culture of Evaluation&lt;/strong&gt;
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  What if evaluation weren't just a box to check for funders, but a community-shaped process for learning and growth? Join Building the Bench in Texas (BTBTX) — a funders' collaborative growing who does evaluation, how it's done, and how communities shape and benefit from it — for the first session in a new capacity-building webinar series.
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  &lt;strong&gt;From Compliance to Curiosity: Building a Culture of Evaluation&lt;/strong&gt;
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  Hear from United Way of Greater Houston, VIDA Collaborative, Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, and EMERGE Scholars on what an evaluation culture shift looks like in practice, then join a small-group discussion to help shape what comes next in the series.
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  &lt;strong&gt;Who should attend:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Funders, community-based organizations, and evaluation professionals across Texas.
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