Hi, I’m Leah Goldstein Moses, Founder and CEO at The Improve Group, an evaluation consulting firm based in Minnesota. Traditional evaluation approaches can miss important information by failing to account for context or differences across communities. Our firm created and practiced the Community-Responsive Approach to evaluation to engage stakeholders for better data, better relationships – …
Hello, I’m Stacy Johnson, a Research and Evaluation Director with The Improve Group, an evaluation consulting firm in Minnesota. I often get asked, “What do you do?” at a dinner party – and as an evaluator, I find that it’s not always easy to explain, especially to people who don’t have any experience in evaluation. …
I am Rebecca Stewart, Chief Practice Officer at The Improve Group, an evaluation consulting firm in St. Paul, Minnesota. You may have heard the saying “What gets measured, gets done.” In Minnesota, nearly every program, initiative, or collaborative effort has an evaluation component. With the practical application of so many different evaluations, we wondered: What …
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My name is Leah Goldstein Moses, and I am incredibly lucky to lead the talented team at The Improve Group as our founder and CEO. Seventeen years ago, the Lakers beat the Pacers in the NBA finals, technology stocks took a beating, an extremely close election led to examination of paper ballots in Florida, and …
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Happy Saturday all! Liz Zadnik here, aea365 Outreach Coordinator and sometime Saturday contributor. Summer has arrived on the East Coast of the United States. For me, summer has always encouraged me to check in with myself and take some time to reorganize and recalibrate. Like time slows down a little and I have few more …
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Greetings from my nation’s capital – Ottawa, eh! My name is Marc Brown and I’m the Design, Monitoring & Evaluation (DME) manager for our government policy influence campaigns at World Vision Canada. WVC has spent the past 15 years engaging government stakeholders directly in policy creation and implementation which impacts the well-being of the most …
We are Annette Gardner and Claire Brindis, both at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco and authors of the recent book, Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation: Theory and Practice. There is a growing body of resources on linking theory to advocacy and policy change evaluation …
Hello! We are Robin Kane of RK Evaluation and Strategies, Carlisle Levine of BLE Solutions, LLC, Carlyn Orians of ORS Impact, and Claire Reinelt, independent evaluation consultant. We offer evaluation, applied research and technology services to help organizations increase their effectiveness and contribute to better outcomes. In our advocacy and policy change evaluation work, we …
My name is Heather Krause. As a data scientist for the Ontario Syrian Refugee Resettlement Secretariat, part of my job is to design ways to harness data to measure how successfully refugee resettlement is going, as well as what programs and services are working well and which ones have gaps. Using data to advocate for …
My name is Julia Coffman, and I am director of the Center for Evaluation Innovation, where we are building the field of evaluation in areas that are challenging to assess, including advocacy and policy change. These are complex political times. Advocates are facing new challenges as they grapple with unpredictable developments that create political dysfunction …
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