Greetings! We’re Joy Kubarek and Brian Johnson, Co-founders of Inform Evaluation & Research. Much of our work focuses on building evaluation capacity within informal science and conservation organizations. In recent years, we’ve seen increasing demand for evaluation capacity building (ECB), but organizations don’t always know when they are ready for an ECB initiative or the …
Hi, my name is Elizabeth Grim, AEA365 Curator and an independent consultant moving organizations from confusion to clarity to tell their story with data. One of the many amazing resources offered through the American Evaluation Association is the opportunity to learn from a colleagues through discussion boards and Topical Interest Groups (TIGs). TIGs are smaller …
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Hi, we are Lila Burgos, Tsuyoshi Onda, and Cristina Magaña from Harder+Company Community Research. Despite variations in methods and frameworks, evaluators approach evaluation as a form of evidence-based truth telling that’s most effective when those truths can be shared directly and honestly. We are often asked to make the ‘business case’ for funding programs in …
Hi, my name is Elena Pinzon O’Quinn and I am the National Learning and Evaluation Director at LIFT. I have been a nonprofit internal evaluator for most of my career. The nonprofits I have worked with engage in ongoing performance measurement for the goal of using data for continuous program improvement. Stakeholders need to see …
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Hello! We are Nina Sabarre, PhD and Kathleen Doll, PhD, and we lead Intention 2 Impact (I2I), a research and evaluation consulting firm known for helping purpose-driven organizations drive strategy, innovation, and impact. In addition to serving our clients day in and day out, we are proud to be a feminist firm that actively disrupts …
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Can evaluative learning be performative? As evaluators, we collectively loathe the proverbial adage that evaluation reports are dense documents that collect dust on organizational shelves or, worse yet, get sent to the paper shredder. We know that a lack of attention to learning undermines our efforts to ensure that our evaluation insights, results, and recommendations …
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Hi everyone, I am Ann Price, a community psychologist and evaluator based in Georgia. I own Community Evaluation Solutions, a firm I founded in 2004. In this blog, I want to talk about the challenges I experienced starting my business and several free opportunities for independent evaluation consultants. Like most evaluators, I don’t have a …
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Hello! My name is Sylvia Pu. I am a researcher and strategist, and I help mission-driven organizations assess the big-picture impact of their work and focus more on their high-impact activities. I am the principal consultant of Sylvia Pu Consulting. Today, I will introduce you to the unique research design of community-engaged research (CEnR) and …
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Hello, I am Matt Feldmann with Goshen Education Consulting and I propose that acting selflessly pays dividends in unlikely ways. Essentially, if you adopt the golden rule and perform acts of kindness for others, you will reap big benefits in the future. I call this Networking Karma. As the owner of a small business evaluation …
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I’m Maryfrances Porter, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of Partnerships for Strategic Impact, and one of the ImpactStory coaches. We have spent the last 15+ years coaching, training, and supporting small- to medium-sized nonprofits in telling masterful impact stories. The nonprofits we work with are big enough to care about data, but not big enough to …
