Hi there! I am Ana García-Femenía, (@anagfemenia), PhD in Sociology and Political Sciences and independent evaluation consultant. I live in Spain and conduct evaluations for various international donors in different countries. Have you ever been in the middle of an interview in an evaluation and felt some specific emotion with no reason for it? What …
I’m Gail Vallance Barrington and I’m an independent consultant. It’s hard to teach novice clients about logic models. This year, instead of presenting a technical monologue, I came up with a story to capture their attention. It’s called My Rich Uncle and it goes like this: Icebreaker: You suddenly discover that you have a rich and …
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My name is Susan Wolfe and I am a Senior Consultant at CNM Connect where I provide evaluation and other capacity building services to non-profit organizations. Two months ago I was the owner of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC, my own consulting firm; however, after five successful years I chose to close my doors and …
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I’m Bernadette Wright, founder of Meaningful Evidence, LLC. As an entrepreneur, I noticed a proliferation of books, papers, courses, and other sources espousing conflicting ideas of how to succeed in business and entrepreneurship. For evaluators who are building independent consulting businesses, this makes finding the best ideas for our business difficult. In my and Dr. …
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Hello, I’m Stephen Maack, Owner and Lead Consultant of REAP Change Consultants, founded October, 2002. The Fourth of July is this week. Many become independent evaluation consultants because of the lure of freedom – freedom to choose projects, what you do, how you do it; freedom from the politics of organizations, bad bosses, and organizational …
I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor, and I’m thinking deeply this morning. Really deeply. About unanticipated outcomes. It’s fascinating when I think back on what seem like tiny, trivial moments in my life – a sentence spoken, a question asked, an action taken – that had profound impacts on my …
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Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant at EvalQuality.com and Creative Advisor of this blog. As mentioned before, I consider creativity a key competence in life, and in evaluation. How so? If there is anything clear regarding evaluation it is that there are no rules. No rules. It is a totally adaptive discipline that can be …
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Hi, Veronica Olazabal, senior associate director of evaluation at The Rockefeller Foundation here with Karim Harji, director at Purpose Capital. As many of you already know, market-based approaches to poverty alleviation are gaining traction across the social sector. A range of innovative strategies are being used to finance these initiatives, including impact investing—an approach to …
I am Jackson Hille, the Content Associate for FormSwift, a SF-based startup that helps organizations, entrepreneurs, and businesses go paperless. Recently, for a work project, I had to evaluate the current strengths and weaknesses of our content campaigns, and also decide what content avenues present our greatest opportunities and our greatest threats. As a professional …
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Hello! I’m Kate Tinworth, Program Co-Chair of the DVRTIG. I am excited to write about one of my favorite parts of my work as an evaluator— drawing. Last year at AEA I co-presented a session called, “Drawing Them In: Graphic Facilitation & Evaluation to Strategically Visualize Change” with my friend Chris Chopyak (a rock star …
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