Important Dates: September 2025

To make planning even easier, we’ve created a downloadable September calendar with all events in one place. Save the dates so you don't miss an opportunity!

Important Dates:

Monday, September 8:

• National Board Elections Voting Begins
  • The election ballot will be sent from elections@vote-now.com. Check your spam folder if you have not received the ballot. Voting closes Friday, Oct. 3.

Tuesday, September 9:

• APPAM's Policy on the Rocks Panel, co-sponsored by AEA | Washington D.C. | 5 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. ET
  • Connect with fellow researchers and practitioners and get to know our community over refreshments while hearing leading experts discuss the most pressing issues related to public policy and public management. Policy on the Rocks events are free and open to all.
• Evaluation 2025 Early Bird Pricing Ends

Tuesday, September 16:

• Measuring Systems Change Across Diverse Portfolios: Approaches & Tools for Values-Driven Organizations - eStudy 143 | September 16, 12:30 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. ET and September 30, 12:30 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. ET 
  • Are you and your organization struggling to cohesively measure impact across your portfolio of projects in a streamlined and comprehensive way? Is your work informed by trust-based values, systems change, and complexity? This eStudy will offer fresh approaches to measure systems change across diverse portfolios or bodies of work, while also not overly burdening grantees. Designed as an interactive eStudy, attendees will leave this session with tangible next steps to take back to their work. Register to attend.
• The Evolution of Evaluation: Meeting the Moment, Panel Discussion hosted by AEA and Washington Evaluators | Washington D.C. | 5 p.m. ET
  • This panel brings together experienced voices from across sectors to explore how evaluators can rise to meet our current state of transition with resilience, creativity, and renewed purpose. Registration is required to attend.

Thursday, September 18:

• Evaluation Policy Task Force Town Hall | Virtual | 2 p.m. ET
  • AEA's Evaluation Policy Task Force (EPTF) needs your input to update the influential Evaluation Roadmap for a More Effective Government for today's challenges and opportunities. the EPTF is inviting AEA members to offer their perspectives on strengthening the Roadmap's relevance and the EPTF’s impact for the next five years. Your voice will help determine how evaluation can be embedded and defended in various levels and types of governments. Registration is required to attend.

Friday, September 19:

• Guiding Principles Feedback Due
  • The AEA Foundational Documents Taskforce invites all interested parties to address the following questions regarding proposed updates to AEA's Guiding Principles for Evaluators:

1. Are there specific gaps, ambiguities, or challenges that should be addressed in this update?
2. What suggestions do you have to strengthen the relevance and applicability of the principles?

Tuesday, September 23:

• Pre-Conference Webinar: Introduction to Foresight for Evaluators | Virtual | 2 p.m. ET
  • This free webinar will describe, discuss, and demonstrate constructs, definitions, and methods that can help evaluators on their foresight journey.

Thursday, September 25:

• Webinar with CREA: “Advancing Values-Conscious Leadership: Navigating Culturally Responsive Evaluation in Times of Complexity and Change” | Virtual | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET
  • In the face of escalating political and social challenges—ranging from the reconfiguration of historical narratives to the dismantling of equitable and inclusive policies—culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) has never been more vital. Co-hosted by the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA), this roundtable will explore how CRE serves not only as a methodological approach, but as a form of principled resistance and generative leadership in the ongoing fight for social justice and equity. Further, panelists will discuss strategies for advancing CRE as a mechanism for community affirmation and social justice. Participants will leave with tangible strategies for both implicit and explicit advocacy, aimed at strengthening community resilience and fostering an inclusive, forward-thinking evaluative practice. The session will conclude with a roundtable breakout discussion, inviting participants to share reflections, pose questions, and co-create ideas for advancing CRE in their own contexts.
    • Panelists: Dr. Ayesha Boyce (Arizona State University/AEA Board Member At-Large/CREA Affiliate), Dr. Angelicque Tucker-Blackmon (Innovative Learning Center, LLC/ AEA Board Member At-Large), Dr. Lisa Aponte-Soto (Tanoma Consulting/CREA Affiliate)
    • Moderator: Anthony B. Sullers Jr. (CREA)

Tuesday, September 30:

• Measuring Systems Change Across Diverse Portfolios: Approaches & Tools for Values-Driven Organizations - eStudy 143 | September 30, 12:30 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. ET 
  • Are you and your organization struggling to cohesively measure impact across your portfolio of projects in a streamlined and comprehensive way? Is your work informed by trust-based values, systems change, and complexity? This eStudy will offer fresh approaches to measure systems change across diverse portfolios or bodies of work, while also not overly burdening grantees. Designed as an interactive eStudy, attendees will leave this session with tangible next steps to take back to their work. Register to attend.

More Important Events in 2025:

November 10-14, 2025:

• Evaluation 2025