Jara Dean-Coffey (She/Her/Hers) Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Luminare Group is unrelenting in our pursuit of an equitable and just world, and we are driven to work with those who are equally unrelenting. All too often data and information, and how they are used, inadvertently reinforce oppressions we seek to eliminate. We believe we have a moral imperative to do our work differently, interrupt existing habits and.

United States

The following is a selection of clients that Luminare Group (formerly jdcPartnerships) have worked with on Evaluation + Strategy projects:∙ The Wright Institute∙ Peace Development Fund∙ Intersection for the Arts∙ CALPACT∙ Horizons Foundation∙ Foundation for Louisiana (formerly LDRF)∙ Californians for Justice∙ California Black Health Network∙ Grantmakers.

United States

The following is a selection of clients and organizations that Luminare Group (formerly jdcPartnerships) has worked with on Capacity Building projects: ∙ Northern California Grantmakers∙ Dept. of Health and Human Services, County of Marin∙ Blue Shield Against Violence/RDP Consulting∙ Hawai’i Community Foundation ∙ First 5 Marin Children and Families.

United States

The following is a selection of clients and organizations that Luminare Group (formerly jdcPartnerships) has worked with on Pushing Practice:∙ Annie E. Casey Foundation∙ Equitable Evaluation∙ Engage R+DLearn more about working with Luminare Group on Pushing Practice: https://www.theluminaregroup.com/pushing-practice/

San Francisco Bay Area

EEI is imagining what it would be like if evaluation was conceptualized, implemented, and utilized in a manner that promotes equity. Learn more at: https://www.equitableeval.org/As Director of EEI, I drive overall strategy and facilitate high-level field relationships in order to advance EE.

Richmond, CA

∙ Provide evaluation design, implementation and capacity building support as well as strategy formation consulting services to this emerging youth center in West Contra Costa county which is based on an integrative model of youth development, youth organizing and structural change.