Hello! We are Kellie Hall, from the National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO), and Emmalou Norland, from Cedarloch Research, LLC. We have worked in consort as internal and external evaluators on public health programs. During our time together, evaluation has been growing in popularity within the non-profit sector—and with that, so has …
Happy Saturday, folks! I’m Liz Zadnik, aea365’s Outreach Coordinator. I live in the Mid-Atlantic region of the country and was snowed in a few weeks ago. The storm wasn’t as bad as it could have been (for us…thankfully), but I had a chance to spend some time catching up on my reading resolution. Rad …
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Hi! We are Laura Beals, Director, and Barbara Perry, Evaluation Manager, of the Department of Evaluation and Learning at Jewish Family and Children’s Service Boston, a multi-service nonprofit in Massachusetts. At Eval 2015, we learned about “Data Placemats” from Veena Pankaj of the Innovation Network. Recently, we held several placemat-focused “Learning Conversations” with one of …
My name is Dr. Moya Alfonso, MSPH, and I’m an Associate Professor at the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University, and I am University Sector Representative and Board Member for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA). I would like to offer you a few tips on engaging stakeholders in participatory evaluation based …
Hi, we’re Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA) members Taylor Ellis, a doctoral student and lead evaluator, and Dr. Debra Nelson-Gardell, an Associate Professor, providing consultation at the School of Social Work at The University of Alabama. We form a team tasked with evaluating a program providing community-based, family-inclusive intervention for youth with sexual behavior problems (youngsters …
Hello! I am Smita Shukla Mehta, a 2016 Fellow of AEA’s Minority Serving Institutions program. I am a Professor of Special Education in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of North Texas. I teach doctoral courses in program evaluation and feel passionate about providing graduate students opportunities to develop technical competencies in conceptualizing …
Hello, we are Dani Rae Gorman and Angela Nancy Mendoza, former scholars of the AEA Graduate Diversity Education Internship (GEDI) program 2015-2016 cohort. We’d like to share some of our lessons learned throughout the program in engaging stakeholders from the inception and throughout the process of evaluation. Lessons Learned: Consistent Engagement Evaluation phases change over …
Hi, I’m Pat Christian and founder of Caleb Missionary Relief Services, an international nonprofit that evolved from evaluating children needs with vulnerabilities in Haiti. My organization has implemented interventions to improve their quality of education and has made a difference with thousands of Haitian students. I’ve conducted project level evaluations with input from stakeholders for …
