AEA365 Contributor, Curated by Elizabeth Grim

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 …

Developing More Intentional Budgets By Redefining LoE by Nina Sabarre and Kathleen Doll Read More »

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 …

Integrating equity-based learning into our evaluative practices by Elizabeth McGee Read More »

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 …

Paying It Forward by Ann Webb Price Read More »

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 …

Use Community-Engaged Research to Create Change From Bottom Up by Sylvia Pu Read More »

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 …

Networking Karma by Matt Feldmann Read More »

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 …

Lessons Learned from Day-to-Day, Real-Life Evaluation for Small- and Medium-Sized Nonprofits by Maryfrances Porter Read More »

Hi, my name is Barbara Klugman. I offer strategy and evaluation support and facilitate a number of peer learning initiatives in support of network, funder and NGO social justice efforts. From 2017-2019, I was the developmental evaluator for the ‘incubation’ of Tekano: Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity and in 2020 I both facilitated a peer …

Transformative Leadership Fellowships Need Transformative Evaluation Approaches by Barbara Klugman Read More »

Hi all! This is Elizabeth Grim, volunteer curator of AEA365 and Founder/Principal Consultant of Elizabeth Grim Consulting, LLC. It’s hard to believe that today is the final day of #Eval21, AEA at 35: Meeting the Moment. It has been a fantastic week of celebrating the history of AEA. I hope those who attended the conference …

Staying Connected Beyond #Eval21 by Elizabeth Grim Read More »

Hi from your AEA365 curators! We are Lead Curator, Elizabeth (Liz) DiLuzio, and Volunteer Curator, Elizabeth Grim. If you’re seeing this blog in your inbox, thank you for being a subscriber of AEA365! We are so glad you are part of this learning community. Keeping with the theme of #Eval21, we want to take a …

All about AEA365 by Elizabeth Grim & Liz DiLuzio Read More »

Hi all! Elizabeth Grim here. AEA365 volunteer curator, this week – frequent AEA365 blogger, and Founder and Principal Consultant of Elizabeth Grim Consulting, LLC. It’s AEA conference week! Will you be attending the conference virtually from your living room, gathering with colleagues for an office watch party, or engaging with the chatter on social media? …

Meeting the Moment by Elizabeth Grim Read More »