Hello fellow evaluators! My name is Ann Price and I am President of Community Evaluation Solutions, near Atlanta, Georgia. A few weeks ago a friend and I spent the weekend in the Georgia Mountains at the Hike Inn, a state park only accessible via a 5 mile “moderate” hike. There is no cell phone, no …
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My name is Dr. Edmina Bradshaw, Principal Consultant of Edmina Bradshaw LLC. I work with a small group of professionals on program planning and evaluation for national and local nonprofit organizations, mostly in the aging field. I also support organizations in implementing self-directed volunteer teams(sdvnetwork.com) across the country. I find that while the need for …
Hello! I’m Carlisle Levine, an independent evaluator specializing in organizational and advocacy evaluation. I have led CARE USA’s advocacy evaluation and co-led Catholic Relief Services’ program evaluation. As an internal and independent evaluator, I have learned important lessons about advocacy evaluation. Lessons Learned: Influencing policy change is a lengthy, convoluted process involving many actors, actions …
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Hello. I’m Ehren Reed and I am a Director with Innovation Network. For several years, much of my work has involved the evaluation of advocacy and policy change efforts. During that time, I have witnessed this topic grow from a conversation between a small cadre of evaluators and funders to a full-fledged field with an …
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Hi, I’m Dawn Hanson Smart, Senior Associate at Clegg & Associates, Inc. in Seattle. My colleagues, Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas from EnCompass LLC and Rakesh Mohan who works with the Idaho Legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations, and I are presenting at AEA’s upcoming conference on managing the sometimes conflicting agendas of evaluation stakeholders. (They both will …
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