Capacity Building

Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, and Ann Emery on New Research: The State of Evaluation 2012

Hello! We are Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, and Ann Emery from Innovation Network. For 20 years, Innovation Network has helped nonprofits and foundations evaluate and learn from their work. In 2010, Innovation Network set out to answer a question that was previously unaddressed in the evaluation field—what is the state of nonprofit evaluation practice and …

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EEE Week: Sarah Baughman on Building Evaluation Capacity Across Disciplines: From Feral Hogs and Fire Ants to Families

Hi!  I’m Sarah Baughman, Evaluation and Research Leader for eXtension.  eXtension is the virtual presence of the Cooperative Extension System. We work with faculty from land grant universities to provide unbiased, research-based educational resources across a wide range of topics including feral hogs, fire ants, and families through our 70 communities of practice. A major …

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EEE Week: Mary Arnold on Building Capacity

Hi! I’m Mary Arnold, a program evaluator with the Extension 4-H Youth Development program at Oregon State University. This AEA 365 entry kicks off a week of postings by members of the Extension Education Evaluation TIG, which is starting its 32nd year! Extension is the outreach arm of the public Land-Grant universities and its mission …

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Cheryl Poth on Building Capacity for Mixed Methods Evaluation

I’m Cheryl Poth and I am an assistant professor at the Centre for Applied Studies in Measurement and Evaluation in the department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. My area of research is focused on how developmental evaluators build evaluation capacity within their organizations. My use of …

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OL-ECB Week: Laura Keene on Activities for Evaluation Training

Hello! My name is Laura Keene, owner of Keene Insights, a one-woman consulting shop based in sunny Los Angeles, California. Over the past nine years, I’ve worked as both an internal and an external evaluator in a variety of settings. For many organizations, especially smaller nonprofits, working with me is their first introduction to evaluation. …

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OL-ECB Week: Joseph Bauer and Allison Titcomb on Collaboration to Enhance Evaluation Capacity Building

I’m Joseph Bauer, Chair of the Organizational Learning-Evaluation Capacity Building Topical Interest Group (OL-ECB TIG), here with Allison Titcomb, ALTA Consulting/ Arizona Evaluation Network (AZENET) /Local Affiliate Collaborative (LAC).  We have prepared this post as a model activity that reflects joint purposes of the OL-ECB and the LAC. The OL-ECB TIG and the Local Affiliate …

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IE Week: Alicia McCoy on Using an Internal Blog to Support a Research and Evaluation Culture

My name is Alicia McCoy and I am the Research and Evaluation Manager at Family Life in Melbourne, Australia.  Family Life is a community service organization that offers a diverse range of services for families, children and young people, including family support, counseling, and mediation. In 2009, Family Life established an internal research and evaluation …

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Craig Wiles on Using Tableau for Data Exploration

Hi, I’m Craig Wiles, Senior Consultant at Public Sector Consultants in Lansing, Michigan. I provide research and evaluation services for clients in health and human services, education and the environment. I am sharing a tip on how to use Tableau as part of a data exploration process with a group of stakeholders. To begin, I …

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Robin Kelly on A Tip on Activating Your Cultural Intelligence

Hi, I am Robin Kelly; I work as an internal evaluator for the National Minority AIDS Council, which is a federally funded nongovernmental organization that provides capacity building assistance to community based organizations and health departments that have programs or interventions to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I mention it because we work in communities of …

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Susan Kistler on The Future of Evaluation: 5 Predictions (building on 10 others!)

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and this week John Gargani reflected on what evaluation might look like in 10 years (go ahead, click away – it’s worth a read – but come back!). Lessons [to be] Learned looking into a hazy crystal ball for what evaluation might look like 10 years hence, I wanted …

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