Hello, I am Maggie Miller, the principal of Maggie Miller Consulting. I conduct program evaluation for small to mid-size nonprofits in the Denver/Boulder area. Sometimes I think I should change that tagline because I’ve gotten referrals to larger nonprofits (whom I adore), but I am still very attached to the small identity. Hot Tips: Trust …
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I’m Gail Barrington, an independent consultant with more than 25 years of experience in program evaluation and applied research, and a published author. I’m a senior evaluation adviser to a number of organizations, I teach on-line, present workshops and webinars, and write as much as I can. Our clients hire us for our expertise and …
I’m Jean Eells and I’ve operated E Resources Group, my evaluation and consulting business, for 14 years. My clients are small non-profits and small local or state governmental departments and I run from 8 – 12 contracts at a time and up to 15 in a year mostly by myself, or with subcontractors. My tip …
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My name is Susan Wolfe, the owner of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that applies Community Psychology principles and evaluation skills to strengthening organizations and communities. Being a “Jack of All Trades” is one way to combine the skills and core competencies of evaluation and community psychology to be successful as a …
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Hello, I am Matt Feldmann, the principal researcher and owner of Goshen Education Consulting, Inc. We focus on educational evaluation for clients in Southern Illinois. Establishing a service or content niche is one way to be successful as a small independent evaluation firm. I define a niche as a clearly delineated specific opportunity for your …
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Hello, I am Leah Goldstein Moses, founder and CEO of the Improve Group and 2012 President of the Minnesota Evaluation Association. When I founded the Improve Group in 2000, I was learning to be a consultant at the same time I was refining my evaluation skills. My practice has grown from myself and a loose …
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I’m Norma Martinez-Rubin, an independent evaluation consultant with a practice focused on evaluating disease prevention and health promotion projects. Small-sized independent evaluation consultancies can offer clients the accessibility and nimbleness absent in larger organizations mired in their own bureaucracies. Our multiple roles as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Informational Officer, and Chief Creative …
Hi again, this is Burt Perrin. I am blessed to live in one of the world’s largely unknown, and spectacularly beautiful spots, the foothills of the Cévennes mountains in France, not far from the Mediterranean. Every turn on almost any road brings another gorgeous, and often quite different, view.
This week is sponsored by our colleagues in the DEI Working Group. Today’s contribution is an evergreen posts contributed by the working group members about a topic so important, it’s worth a second read. -Liz DiLuzio, Lead Curator Greetings from Vidhya Shanker, an interdependent evaluation scholar and practitioner. With the new year, the inauguration, and …
Greetings, AEA365 readers! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. To whet our appetites for this year’s conference in beautiful New Orleans, this week’s posts come to us from the feature the perspectives of the Gulf Coast Eval Network (GCEval) members, where the uniqueness of doing evaluation in the gulf south will be on …
