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ToE TIG Week: Lessons Learned at the 2019 AEA Conference: How to Improve my Teaching of Program Evaluation by Kelly McGinn

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / March 8, 2020

Hi! I am Kelly McGinn, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Community Engagement (HDCE) at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. As a recipient of the Sage Early Career Excellence in Teaching Evaluation Award, I reflected on how the conference presentations were able to inform my teaching. AEA stresses the importance of incorporating the evaluator competences into one’s teaching …

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Using logic modeling to build understanding between foundations, grantees, and evaluators by Ranjani Paradise

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / January 25, 2020

My name is Ranjani Paradise, and I am the Assistant Director of Evaluation at the Institute for Community Health (ICH), a nonprofit consulting organization in Massachusetts. In recent years, ICH has worked with several foundations to design and carry out external evaluations for multi-site grant-making initiatives. With some of the initiatives we have evaluated, the …

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CEA Affiliate Week: The LIVING Logic Model: A Logic Model Plugged Into Real-Time Data by Amelia Kohm

5 Comments / Uncategorized / July 19, 2019

Hello! I am Amelia Kohm, founder of Data Viz for Nonprofits, a consulting firm that helps organizations to better use and show their data through charts, maps, and graphs. My work is all about making data accessible and reducing the journey from data to action. And one way to do that is with a living …

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NA TIG Week: Using a Logic Model Framework to Plan an Evaluation by Sue Hamann

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / June 15, 2019

I’m Sue Hamann and have worked as an Evaluator for almost 40 years and am currently employed at the National Institutes of Health as a Health Scientist and Science Evaluation Officer. Many people new to evaluation are assigned to work as evaluators. My tips today are for those novice evaluators who need some help getting …

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Gov’t Eval TIG Week: Lessons Learned in Government Evaluation by David Bernstein

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Use, Government Evaluation / January 19, 2019

I am David Bernstein, owner of DJB Evaluation Consulting and Director of Evaluation with the General Commission on Religion and Race of the United Methodist Church. Don’t let these non-governmental positions fool you. I have been involved in government evaluation for many years, and was the founding Chair of AEA’s Government Evaluation TIG. I have …

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SEA Affiliate Week: Tips for Engaging Stakeholders in Logic Modeling by Moya Alfonso

1 Comment / Uncategorized / January 1, 2019

My name is Moya Alfonso, and I’m an Associate Professor at the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University. I would like to share a few tips on logic modeling and how to effectively engage stakeholders in each step of the process based on my eighteen years of experience engaging community stakeholders …

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NPF TIG Week: When Logic Models Alone Just Won’t Do—Use a Conceptual Framework! by Kristina Jamal and Jacqueline Singh

1 Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / October 6, 2017

Greetings, we are Kristina Jamal and Jacqueline Singh. In addition to being NPFTIG members, we serve on the PDTIG leadership team. Kristina is founder of Open Hearts Helping Hands (OH3), a nonprofit that collaborates with student-focused organizations and community members. Jacqueline is an evaluation/program design advisor and founder of Qualitative Advantage, LLC. We started working together …

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A Pathway to Logic Modeling Freedom by Kirk Knestis

1 Comment / Uncategorized / January 30, 2017

Kirk Knestis, CEO of Hezel Associates and huge logic model fan, back on aea365 to share what I think are useful tweaks to a common logic modeling approach. I use these “Conditional Logic Models” to avoid traps common when evaluators work with clients to illustrate the theory of action of a program or innovation being …

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Best of AEA365: Tara Gregory on Using Storytelling to Help Organizations Develop Logic Models

1 Comment / Uncategorized / April 12, 2016

I’m Tara Gregory, Research and Evaluation Coordinator for Wichita State University’s Center for Community Support and Research (CCSR). CCSR works with non-profit, community and faith-based organizations across Kansas and was originally supported through the Community Psychology graduate program at Wichita State University. Many of our staff members, myself included, are graduates of this program so we’ve …

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