My name is Rachel Leventon, and I am a consultant at CNM Connect, a nonprofit capacity building organization. Most of my work focuses on training, coaching, and consulting to increase the internal program evaluation capacities of nonprofit organizations and collaboratives. I am a sociologist at heart so theory informs everything I do. As a result, …
My name is Susan Wolfe and I am the owner of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that applies Community Psychology principles to strengthening organizations and communities. A lot of my work involves helping to develop and evaluate community coalitions. Because of the dynamic nature of coalitions facilitating their development and providing evaluative …
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My name is Ann Price and I am the President of Community Evaluation Solutions, Inc.(CES), a consulting firm based just outside Atlanta, Georgia. I am a community psychologist and work to infuse environmental approaches into my work developing and evaluating community prevention programs. Much of my work involves working with community coalitions. Hot Tip: Appreciate …
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Hi my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA. As part of my routine, I use a lot of the typical social media platforms such as Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest, but many tools often get overlooked. SlideShare is a great example of a tool that can help you gain …
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I’m Gretchen Jordan. I’ve been doing logic modeling and writing and teaching about how to develop them for more than 20 years. I find the process stimulating and fun, and have noticed that the more I do logic models, and the more I learn about the subject matter, the easier it is and the better …
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I’m Ian David Moss, and I use logic models and theories of change to help people make more strategic decisions. Recently, some smart voices in evaluation and philanthropy have argued that logic models are outdated, as implementation in a complex world too often makes a mockery of those neat and tidy diagrams that supposedly make …
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I’m Kylie Hutchinson, independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I also tweet regularly at @EvaluationMaven. Systems thinking and evaluation is a hot topic these days, and as someone who spends a fair bit of time in evaluation capacity building, it has me thinking a lot about logic models. Some of …
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My name is Michele Tarsilla (@MiEval_TuEval) and I am a transformative evaluator with a focus on capacity development in international and cross-cultural settings. Having worked in 30 countries, I have become aware of the detached -and somewhat cynical- attitude that grantees organizations have towards their funder’s requirement for developing and using logic models (see the table …
We are Debra Smith and Galen Ellis, two evaluators who discovered through AEA that we share a common method of using logic models to facilitate systems thinking with our clients. Many people think logic models are a complicated exercise with little value. Some are downright cynical, saying they tend to represent “a tenuous chain of …
I’m Tom Chapel. My “day job” is Chief Evaluation Officer at the CDC where I help our programs/ partners with evaluation and strategic planning. I took on both roles because large organizations do strategic planning and evaluation in different silos, even though both silos start with “who are we?” “what are we trying to accomplish?” …
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