4Culture Equitable Evaluation Groundwork

In 2023, the King County Council passed Doors Open, a 0.1% sales tax that will provide an estimated $100 million for arts, culture, heritage, preservation, and science annually throughout the county. 4Culture, the county’s cultural development authority will administer this funding. This funding is a major opportunity to build a strategic, organization-wide, approach to evaluation and assessment. In advance of hiring a full time evaluator, Seva Workshop supported the organization in developing a rapid baseline assessment of current evaluation practices, identifying opportunities to improve, streamline, and scale up data collection processes, and set the stage for developing a robust evaluation and assessment function that meets legislative requirements as well as sets the organization up for aligned impact and continual improvement in all its work.

Cover photo by Ulysses Curry