Scott Florence is the Managing Director at reThink Green in Sudbury, Ontario, where he brings together ideas, partners and resources to build a more sustainable community. Scott is also an accomplished member of the arts community and has many different creative projects on the go. We start this episode with a discussion about how he’d evaluate his most recent endeavour, The Letter Project, that challenges strangers to engage through the written medium.

In this week’s episode, Scott and Adam have a candid conversation about how evaluation can work for and against organizations trying to respond to community needs. We talk about the danger of applying the same evaluation tools across every context and how we can talk ourselves into cycles of positivity and negativity bias. If you’ve ever written a journal, you’ll want to listen to this section.

Before signing off on the final episode of season one, we consider the consequences of focusing on metric-based evaluation and how it might stand in the way of honesty in the nonprofit sector.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

* The Letter Project

* reThink Green where Scott works

* Send us a tweet at @evalcast to tell us what you’d like to hear about on Season 2

Music: Wavy Glass by Podington Bear. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. Find Podington Bear and other artists at freemusicarchive.org/music.