I’m Amy Griffin, Director of Health Evaluation Initiatives at The Consultation Center at Yale and a member of YaleEVAL. Recently I had the privilege to work with a state agency and a statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) coalition to develop a statewide LGBTQ needs assessment. Below are some Hot Tips to promote …
Hi, I’m Cindy Crusto, Professor, Yale School of Medicine and a faculty at YaleEVAL, an evaluation group at The Consultation Center at Yale, where I am Director, Program Evaluation and Child Trauma Research. I am pleased to contribute to our team’s week-long series on how participatory evaluation approaches can be used to promote equity. Today, …
I am Joy Kaufman, Professor, Yale School of Medicine, a faculty at YaleEVAL, an evaluation group of The Consultation Center at Yale, where I am Deputy Director. Over the past 20 years I have partnered with recipients of care in evaluating the services they receive with the goal of reducing the power imbalances that can …
Hello, I’m Jack Tebes, Professor at the Yale School of Medicine and a faculty at YaleEVAL, an evaluation group of The Consultation Center at Yale, where I am Executive Director. Equity and social justice are central to our mission at the Center, so this week my YaleEVAL colleagues and I are continuing the dialogue on …
Happy weekend! I’m Elizabeth DiLuzio, volunteer curator for AEA365, and lately I have been captivated by the brilliance of the tools for which we are best known: the Theory of Change (TOC) and the Logic Model (LM). What I learned about them in grad school was a bit reductive: that they are products to be …
Tackling Organizational Challenges with Evaluation Tools by Elizabeth DiLuzio Read More »
Hi, I am Ben Fowler, a Co-Founder of MarketShare Associates, a global social impact consulting company. We focus on measuring the social impacts created by companies, investors, foundations and bilateral and multilateral funders. Social impact measurement (SIM) is a quickly evolving space. Significant effort to date in measuring SIM has been on quantifying and benchmarking …
Hi – I’m Heather Esper of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan. One of the most critical moments in my time with AEA came during a plenary at the 2017 annual conference focused on Dialogue on Race and Class in America. I find myself going back to my notes from this session …
SIM TIG Week: Tips for Examining and Addressing Inequity by Heather Esper Read More »
Hi everyone! I’m Leah, founder & CEO of The Improve Group. Today I’m writing about the messy middle ground that I sometimes get to play in – the space where I’m both the evaluated and the evaluator. Let me start with a little context. The Improve Group is a mission-focused evaluation consultancy. In Minnesota, where …
Hello! I’m Belissa Rojas and I am the founder and CEO of Impacto Consulting, an advisory firm that provides enterprises, investors, governments and international organizations with knowledge, innovative solutions, and evaluation tools to foster sustainability and positive social and environmental impact. I am currently working with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Impact team (UN …
SIM TIG Week: The SDG Impact Standards by Belissa Rojas Read More »
Hi! I am Sasha Zoueva, Senior Evaluation Manager, Johnson & Johnson. As part of our Global Community Impact team, I am responsible for evaluation of hundreds of grants, several impact investments and employee engagement projects, plus our product donations and disaster response initiatives. Evaluation is often intellectually exciting and challenging. In a corporate environment, we …
