Conferences & Workshops
Helping Organizations Learn, Reflect & Strengthen Their Impact
Radiance partners with nonprofits, foundations, arts organizations, and community leaders to design engaging conference sessions and customized workshops that strengthen evaluation practice, deepen learning, and help organizations communicate their impact.
Our interactive presentations combine practical tools, participatory learning, and real-world examples that participants can immediately apply within their own organizations.
Whether we’re presenting at a national conference or facilitating an in-house workshop, our goal is the same: helping organizations learn from their work and use that knowledge to create greater impact.
What We Offer
Our workshops can help your organization:
Workshop Formats
- Conference presentations
- Keynote presentations
- Interactive workshops
- Professional development
- Board and leadership retreats
- Staff learning sessions
- Conference breakout sessions
- Virtual workshops
- Multi-session learning series
Featured Workshops & Presentations
Race Forward – Cultural Week of Action on Race and Democracy
Uncover Stories of Social Change with Ripple Effects Mapping
Oakland & San Francisco, CA
Helping organizations uncover and communicate the ripple effects of their work through participatory evaluation.
Arts Education Partnership Annual Convening
A New Evaluation Framework for Arts Education
Denver, CO
Hands-on exploration of the Americans for the Arts’ Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change framework.
International Leadership Association Women’s Leadership Conference
Uncover Meaningful Impacts of Your Leadership Development Program
Claremont, CA
Interactive workshop introducing Ripple Effects Mapping for leadership development.
The Qualitative Report Annual Conference
Learning from Community with a Strengths-Based Strategy
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Participatory evaluation approaches for complex community and systems change.
Race Forward / Americans for the Arts
Measuring the Immeasurable
Oakland, CA
Practical evaluation strategies for arts, justice, and democracy initiatives.
American Evaluation Association
Radiance team members have also contributed to sessions at multiple American Evaluation Association conferences, including presentations on:
* Community-engaged evaluation
* Facilating learning throughout the evaluation process
* Evaluation strategies supporting LGBTQ+ youth and educational equity
Popular Topics
Grant Proposal and Fund Development
Use evaluation findings and impact data to communicate your work, highlight learning, and support grant proposals and fund development efforts.
Ripple Effects Mapping
A participatory evaluation approach that helps organizations uncover direct and indirect impacts while engaging participants in meaningful reflection..
How Do You Measure the Impact of the Arts?
Learn practical tools for measuring how arts and cultural work contributes to individual, organizational, and community change.
What Participants Are Saying
Leva Zand, Executive Director
ARTogether
“One conference attendee named your session as the most valuable they attended and said you offered ‘excellent, usable materials and ways to engage with the ideas during the session.”
Mary Dell’Erba, Assistant Director
Arts Education Partnership
“The workshop was very formative and relevant.”
Participant at the International Leadership Association’s Women’s Leadership Conference
Claremont, CA, June 2024
“I loved the workshop! Very engaging and practical! The steps were very clear and the visual references allowed me to consider things in a new way.”
Participant at Radiance’s Race Forward Cultural Week of Action on Race and Democracy Workshop
Oakland, CA, November 2025