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Center for Community Health and Evaluation

Please note: The Center for Health Studies Web site and cche.org will be offline for maintenance Friday, August 29 from 6 p.m. Pacific and on. The Web site will be back online late Friday evening.

The Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE) designs and evaluates health-related programs and initiatives throughout the United States. Much of CCHE's experience comes from its evaluation of multi-site community-level interventions with an emphasis on implementation and outcomes. Formerly the evaluation team of the Group Health Community Foundation, CCHE is now part of the Group Health Center for Health Studies.

CCHE specializes in matching evaluation strategies to the needs of stakeholders, including the community, program staff, clinicians, and policy-makers. Highly interdisciplinary, CCHE has designed health promotion interventions, evaluated both large and small health-related initiatives, organized national conferences, and published widely.

Recent CCHE work has focused on chronic disease prevention and assessment of sustained, broad-based community participation. Clients include foundations, local, state and federal government agencies, national voluntary organizations, universities, and community-based nonprofits.

CCHE News

Local foundation gleans lessons for the next decade
As the Northwest Health Foundation (NWHF) approached the end of its first decade, it commissioned CCHE to evaluate the legacy of its first decade of community grants. CCHE staff spent months conducting site visits, interviews, and focus groups in order to glean the key lessons from the Foundation’s first decade. The results of this assessment—Legacy Illuminated—are described in the executive summary.

NWHF understood the challenges in conducting an evaluation of such a complex, large and diverse portfolio of grants ($14 million to over 300 organizations). The decision to meet these challenges was based in part on the promise of lessons learned and in part on the experience and expertise that CCHE held from similar work with other foundations.

For more information or a copy of the full report, please contact Emily Bourcier at bourcier.e@ghc.org.

Presentations and audio recordings from the July 9 Evidence. Equity. Empowerment. Evolution. conference in Los Angeles are now available. The conference was sponsored by The California Endowment and organized by CCHE. For more information, please contact Clarissa Hsu, hsu.c@ghc.org.

Contact CCHE
Center for Community Health and Evaluation 206-287-4389 cche@ghc.org

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