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Clare Nolan and Sonia Taddy on Capacity Building for Nonprofits

Hello! We’re Clare Nolan and Sonia Taddy with Harder+Company Community Research, a national consulting firm that specializes in evaluation. We work with nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies throughout the country to plan and evaluate services for vulnerable populations. Lesson Learned: Over the years, we’ve evaluated multiple grantmaking initiatives designed to build the capacity of nonprofits. …

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Susan Kistler on Conference Tips for Anaheim

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 29, 2011 October 29, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler. I am AEA’s Executive Director and I arrived today in Anaheim to finalize preparations for AEA’s annual conference that begins on Monday. Hot Tip: There is a food court right in the Hilton Anaheim – and you’d never know it unless you look. Go left from the registration desk for …

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SCEA Week: Kara Crohn on the AEA Annual Conference Fieldtrip and Using Multiple Methods to Check Your Assumptions

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 28, 2011 October 27, 2011

My name is Kara Crohn. I am a Research Manager for EMI (http://www.emiconsulting.com). We are best known for our research and evaluation related to energy efficiency. We also assist clients with strategic planning, policy, program design, and program optimization. EMI is based in Seattle, Washington. I had the good fortune to start our Southern California …

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SCEA Week: Connie Hoskins on Managing a Project Remotely

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / October 27, 2011 October 27, 2011

I am Connie Hoskins, a Research Associate at Vital Research, a research and evaluation consulting firm in the education, health, social services, aging services, and corporate sectors. Although we are based in Los Angeles, we conduct a great deal of our work in other states and nationwide. In one biennial project, we conduct interviews with …

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SCEA Week: Bill Shennum & Kate LaVelle on the Multiple Uses of Multiple Data Sources

Leave a Comment / Behavioral Health, Human Services Evaluation, Internal Evaluation / October 26, 2011 September 2, 2011

Greetings. We are Bill Shennum and Kate LaVelle, staff members in the Research Department at Five Acres, a nonprofit child and family services agency located in Altadena, CA and serving the greater Los Angeles area. We work as internal evaluators to support outcome measurement and continuous quality improvement within the organization. In our roles as …

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SCEA Week: Leslie Fierro & Deanna Rossi on Evaluating State Asthma Programs

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation / October 25, 2011 September 12, 2011

We are Leslie Fierro, former CDC ETA and Deanna Rossi, California Breathing asthma program evaluator, and we’d like to share some of the issues that make California’s asthma program unique and some of the resources we’ve used to facilitate evaluation in this context. California is one of 36 states receiving funds from CDC to implement …

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SCEA Week: Bonnie Richards on Valuing in the Social Services

2 Comments / Human Services Evaluation, Uncategorized / October 24, 2011 September 2, 2011

My name is Bonnie Richards, and I am a Research Associate with Vital Research, an evaluation and consulting company located in Los Angeles, California. The Social Services sector is among the industries we serve when designing and implementing evaluation projects. Lessons Learned: So, what frames a Social Services evaluation project? Consider how values and valuing …

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SCEA Week: Anne Vo & John LaVelle on the Landscape of Evaluation Practice in Greater Los Angeles

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 23, 2011 October 11, 2011

Hi! This is Anne Vo from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and John LaVelle from Claremont Graduate University (CGU). We are the Co-directors of the Southern California Evaluation Association (SCEA), a local affiliate of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Today marks the launch of the SCEA-themed week on aea365 so we will be …

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Susan Kistler on the AEA Public eLibrary

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 22, 2011 October 23, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association. You likely know that AEA’s annual conference is coming up the week beginning October 30. What you may not know is that conference presenters are strongly encouraged to share handouts and supplementary materials via the AEA public eLibrary. Rad …

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John Nash on the Ignite Event and Slide Clinic at the AEA Conference

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / October 21, 2011 October 20, 2011

I’m John Nash and I’m the program co-chair, with Stuart Henderson, for the American Evaluation Association’s new Topical Interest Group, Data Visualization and Reporting (DVR TIG). I’m here to tell you about some innovative events taking place in Anaheim during the 2011 AEA Conference. Hot Tip: Ignite Yourself at the Conference You don’t need matches …

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