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IC Week: Matt Feldmann on Small is Beautiful–Focusing on a Niche for your Practice

2 Comments / Independent Consulting / October 9, 2012 September 27, 2012

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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IC Week: Leah Goldstein Moses on Small is Beautiful–Growing a Small Practice

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / October 8, 2012 September 27, 2012

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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IC Week: Norma Martinez-Rubin on Small is Beautiful–Business Savvy for an Enduring Practice

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / October 7, 2012 September 27, 2012

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 …

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Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Using Summative Analysis Qualitative Technique in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods / September 28, 2012 August 30, 2012

I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo a Director for Program Evaluation with the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Conducting qualitative research for evaluation purposes can be complex and often time consuming, particularly when dealing with large amounts of data. The use of Summative Analysis is useful technique to employ …

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Fran Butterfoss on Evaluating Community Coalitions

2 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / September 27, 2012 August 30, 2012

Hi! I’m Fran Butterfoss, President of Coalitions Work, a group that helps coalitions build and sustain community change efforts to promote health and prevent disease. Coalitions are powerful vehicles for building the skills of professionals and volunteers, thereby empowering them to advocate and act on behalf of priority populations within their communities. Since training and …

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Alice Hausman on Measuring Community -Defined Indicators of Success

2 Comments / Qualitative Methods, Youth Focused Evaluation / September 25, 2012 August 30, 2012

I am Alice Hausman, a professor of Public Health at Temple University. I have been working as a community based participatory research (CBPR) evaluator of youth violence prevention initiatives in urban environments for many years. Lesson Learned: Involve the Community in Identifying Measures and Data. As part of the participatory evaluation planning process, I always …

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Ann Emery on Taking an Evaluator to Lunch

7 Comments / Uncategorized / September 24, 2012 August 30, 2012

Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. I also tweet and blog about evaluation. I will be posting several monthly articles to assist you with employment in the evaluation field. As a new-ish evaluator and part-time graduate student myself, I receive a lot of questions about networking. My advice is to take an evaluator to lunch every week. You’ll …

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FIE/MME Week: Bessa Whitmore on Researcher and Evaluator Roles and Social Justice

Leave a Comment / Feminist Issues in Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation / September 20, 2012 August 30, 2012

My name is Elizabeth (AKA: Bessa) Whitmore. Now a retired Professor from the School of Social Work, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, I have been a member of the Feminist TIG since its inception. The following entry draws on a chapter I am writing entitled “Researcher/evaluator roles and social justice” in a forthcoming Handbook on Feminist …

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