I’m Kelly Hannum. I’ve been evaluating leadership development programs for almost two decades. I am convinced that effective leaders and effective evaluators have similar mindsets and employ similar skills. I encourage leaders to think like evaluators, and via this post I’m encouraging evaluators to think and develop themselves as leaders. At the Center for Creative …
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Hi, I am Robin Kelly; I work as an internal evaluator for the National Minority AIDS Council, which is a federally funded nongovernmental organization that provides capacity building assistance to community based organizations and health departments that have programs or interventions to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I mention it because we work in communities of …
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Hi, I’m Aimee White and I am a Strategic Learning and Evaluation Consultant at FSG in the Seattle office and I have been a practicing evaluator for nearly 10 years. Lessons learned – In my world, evaluation is only good if it is informative for the client and produces actionable learning. This means having a …
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We are Melanie Kawano-Chiu, Program Director at the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) and Andrew Blum, Director of Evaluation and Learning at the United States Institute of Peace. More than two years ago I teamed up with Andrew Blum, Director of Learning and Evaluation at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to launch an initiative …
Hello all! This is Shelly Engelman and Tom McKlin, evaluators at The Findings Groups, LLC, a privately-owned applied research and evaluation firm with a focus on STEM education. The primary objective of many programs that we evaluate is to empower a broad range of elementary, middle and high school students to learn STEM content and …
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I’m Corrie Whitmore, an internal evaluator working for Southcentral Foundation. SCF is an Alaska Native Owned and Operated healthcare organization serving approximately 60,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley, and 60 rural villages in the Anchorage Service Unit. Our organization has had program evaluation in-house since 2009, so our small …
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I’m Sue Griffey, Director of the Evaluation Center in the Public Health Research group at Social & Scientific Systems in Silver Spring (MD) and blogger at Sue Mentors. It never fails that the time that I’m crunching at a deadline for getting a report or presentation done is when I need to do something that I …
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Hi, I am Laura Gagliardone. For about seven years I have collaborated with multilateral, bilateral and non-profit organizations geographically targeted to Africa, South Asia and the Middle East and focused in the following areas: research, communication, knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation, program planning, development and coordination. RELEVANCE: I like thinking of evaluation as a way …
I’m Eric Abdullateef. I enable evaluation at USAID and facilitate interagency responses to complex crises in developing countries where the U.S. has strategic interests. Reshaping public understanding about our initiative is a growing part of my portfolio. When a public opinion poll is out of the question and a general pulse of how average citizens …
This is Bernadette Wright. In April 2012, I made the jump to starting out as an independent consulting/sole proprietor of Wright Evaluation and Applied Research. Lesson Learned: When I first starting exploring the idea of taking the plunge to independent consulting, it seemed like it could be a risky, scary move to make. However, I …
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