Elizabeth DiLuzio

Hello! I am Valerie Ehrlich, Director of Societal Impact’s evaluation team at the Center for Creative Leadership. We work to demonstrate impact and learn about leadership through social sector leadership development program evaluation. Metaphors are a functional part of language that help us “carry meaning across from one thing to another.” This can be especially …

Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation TIG Week: Using Metaphors to Communicate Impact in the Social Sector by Valerie A. Futch Ehrlich Read More »

Hi everyone, I am Ann Price. President and Founder of Community Evaluation Solutions. I partner with community coalitions and nonprofit organizations to design and evaluate effective change strategies to create thriving and equitable communities. As evaluators, we have our process and that probably looks similar no matter what sector you work in. The process often …

Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation TIG Week: Using Storytelling to Get Nonprofits Excited About Evaluation by Ann Price Read More »

You’ve probably been there – at a fundraising event, and someone who has accessed the service gets up to the mic to tell their story. Sometimes it’s okay, but from my experience it can turn cringey quickly when people start sharing intimate details about times when they were at their most vulnerable. I’m Allison Prieur …

Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation TIG Week: Storytelling from the Staff Perspective by Allison Prieur Read More »

Hello! My name is Rhonda Williams, and I am the Director of Impact & Evaluation for Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas in Dallas. In this role, I lead a small team working across the organization, focusing on the impact and evaluation of many programs and various strategic initiatives. The nature of evaluation requires teams that …

Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation TIG Week: Collaborating and Storytelling by Rhonda Williams Read More »

Hello, I am Barbara Klugman, South African providing freelance strategy and evaluation support to funders, networks and organisations internationally.  Story-telling was the core methodology used by the global network WIEGO with four global networks of informal economy workers’ organisations –  International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF), HomeNet International, StreetNet International and the International Alliance of Waste …

Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation TIG Week: Storytelling to Unpack How to Establish a MEL System that Works for Us by Barbara Klugman Read More »

I’m Maryfrances Porter, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of Partnerships for Strategic Impact and developer of the ImpactStory Strategy, a straightforward, sustainable structure for nonprofit storytelling. For 20+ years I have worked with small- to medium-sized nonprofits (~$500K – $3M) – and their funders – to tell powerful impact stories that move people to action. There …

Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation TIG Week: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Nonprofit Storytelling by Maryfrances Porter Read More »

Greetings! I’m Bernadette Wright, AEA365 Coordinator for the Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG). Welcome to Nonprofits and Foundations TIG Week on AEA365! This week’s posts focus on the theme, storytelling in/with nonprofit organizations or foundations. This theme is inspired by the Evaluation203 theme, “The Power of Story.” The next six posts share …

Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation TIG Week: Storytelling in/with Nonprofits and Foundations by Bernadette Wright Read More »