Happy Saturday readers! Liz Zadnik here with a post on one of my FAVORITE topics (other than evaluation, of course): typography and font types. I believe an appreciation of fonts and some intentional steps in selecting a font or fonts can really “up our game” with proposals, reports, blog design, and even email! I …
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Hi, I’m Katherine Dawes from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. I’m currently on a year-long assignment as a Visiting Scholar at The George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration (find me at kdawes [at] gwu [dot] edu). Earth Day 2016 theme is “Trees for the Earth. Let’s get planting.” Everyone knows …
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Hi, I’m Rupu Gupta, Co-Chair of AEA’s Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group and Researcher at NewKnowledge.org, a research and evaluation think tank. Earth Week brings with it an ideal time to critically consider the potential of environmental education programs to create opportunities for professionals to protect the planet for a living! Rad Resource: I …
Hi! I’m Shari Grossarth from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Evaluation Support Division. I’m part of a team at EPA that’s trying out a knowledge synthesis approach to inform our work to advance sustainable purchasing in the federal government and other large institutions. The project is still underway, but I’ll share a bit about it …
I’m John Fraser, a conservation psychologist and President & CEO of the non-profit think tank, NewKnowledge.org. Our research on climate change has taken a very interesting direction in the past few years. For generations, we’ve focused on individual sustainability behaviors as a gateway to more conservation action. Unfortunately, that’s turning out not to be true. …
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We’re Matt Keene and Cameron Norman, from the Silwood Group, a transdisciplinary group of evaluators, systems scientists and conservation leaders. We’re working to address challenges at the nexus of social and ecological systems where complex situations are common, uncertainty is high and predictability is low. Though we can’t be certain of the extent, we are …
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My name is Michael Quinn Patton. I am an independent evaluation consultant based in Minnesota but working worldwide. As part of Earth Week, a worldwide perspective on global systems change seems especially appropriate. I have taught in the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) every year since its inception in 2000. I conducted the …
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I’m Liz Zadnik, Evaluation Enthusiast and lover of all things relationship-building. Although you’d typically hear from me on Saturdays, I’ve been doing some research lately on interorganizational dynamics and partnerships and wanted to share some of my reflections. I have often heard “collaboration” used to describe the pinnacle or ideal state of interorganizational partnerships. Whether …
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Happy Saturday! I’m Liz Zadnik, Outreach Coordinator here at aea365. You may also recall I work in the anti-sexual violence movement at a state coalition. This time of year is incredibly important and busy for folks in the movement, as April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Activists and communities have been commemorating and …
Liz Zadnik on Prevention is Possible: Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2016 Read More »
I’m Chris Weiss, president of the New York City chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (NYAAPOR). Our organization brings together a wide variety of evaluators and other research professionals who are engaged in the methods, applications, analysis and findings from public opinion research. We host a slate of programmatic workshops and panel …
