You’ve probably been there – at a fundraising event, and someone who has accessed the service gets up to the mic to tell their story. Sometimes it’s okay, but from my experience it can turn cringey quickly when people start sharing intimate details about times when they were at their most vulnerable. I’m Allison Prieur …
Hello! My name is Rhonda Williams, and I am the Director of Impact & Evaluation for Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas in Dallas. In this role, I lead a small team working across the organization, focusing on the impact and evaluation of many programs and various strategic initiatives. The nature of evaluation requires teams that …
Hello, I am Barbara Klugman, South African providing freelance strategy and evaluation support to funders, networks and organisations internationally. Story-telling was the core methodology used by the global network WIEGO with four global networks of informal economy workers’ organisations – International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF), HomeNet International, StreetNet International and the International Alliance of Waste …
I’m Maryfrances Porter, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of Partnerships for Strategic Impact and developer of the ImpactStory Strategy, a straightforward, sustainable structure for nonprofit storytelling. For 20+ years I have worked with small- to medium-sized nonprofits (~$500K – $3M) – and their funders – to tell powerful impact stories that move people to action. There …
Greetings! I’m Bernadette Wright, AEA365 Coordinator for the Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG). Welcome to Nonprofits and Foundations TIG Week on AEA365! This week’s posts focus on the theme, storytelling in/with nonprofit organizations or foundations. This theme is inspired by the Evaluation203 theme, “The Power of Story.” The next six posts share …
I’m Elizabeth Winchester (she/her) from the Social Research and Evaluation Center at Louisiana State University. I’ve been a research associate working with non-profits, foundations, federal, state, and local agencies for over 20 years creating data collection and evaluation plans. For today’s University-Based Center TIG week post, I want to share my thoughts on working with agencies who …
Hello, everyone, from part of our team at the University of Mississippi (UM) Center for Research Evaluation (CERE)— Olivia Melvin, evaluation associate and (semi-)recent graduate of UM; and Anna Kang, current undergraduate student worker majoring in exercise science. CERE is a university-based center at UM. We are not student-facing, nor do we have a degree/certificate …
My name is Brad Watts, and I am a seasoned evaluator with a career background that includes positions at two different university-based centers. Currently, I serve as the Assistant Director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University (WMU) and the co-program chair for the University-Based Centers (UBC) TIG. As The Evaluation Center begins its …
Greetings! My name is Adrian Neely. I am a Research Associate at the HBCU STEM US Center at Morehouse College. The mission of our center is to promote undergraduate success and retention of students majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines. Our center includes STEM programs and interventions to support undergraduate student success …
Hi, we are Cathy Hearn, Vicki Bigelow, and Nate Phipps of the University of Michigan Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER). Here we share our model for creating a supportive, authentic learning environment for new and emerging evaluators. A version of this blog post was first presented at the 2022 American Evaluation Association …
