Greetings aea365 readers AND authors! I’m Sheila B Robinson, Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Recently, I wrote this post asking what you would like to read on aea365 in 2021. Thanks to those who offered ideas! Now, I’m writing to ask YOU to consider contributing on one of these, or any other evaluation-related topics. Lesson Learned: Readers …
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Hello everyone! We are Martha Hernandez-Martinez, MPA & Lumarie Orozco, MA, community psychologists currently working at Casa de Esperanza, a national advocacy organization on domestic violence focusing on Latino communities. Through the National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities (NLN), Casa de Esperanza’s national clearinghouse for policy, training, and research, we provide training and …
Greetings! We are Sonji Jones, Judah Viola, and Cari Patterson, affiliated with National Louis University’s Community Psychology doctoral program. We find overlap between core Community Psychology values and those for evaluation. Following are examples of how three core values emblematic of Community Psychology – empowerment, participatory approaches, and social justice – come together in our …
Hi! I’m Brittany Cook, Ph. D., with the Wandersman Center. I’m trained as a clinical-community psychologist, so the principles of community psychology are always in the forefront of how I approach evaluation work. One of the partners of our center that I work closely with is Serve & Connect, a community non-profit founded by fellow …
Hi, I’m Elizabeth McGee, Founder and Senior Consultant at LEAP Consulting, helping nonprofits, foundations, and public institutions achieve impact through meaningful evaluations and strategic support. Lessons Learned: How we carry out our work as evaluators has a direct impact on the way programs and organizations see themselves, interpret their data, make recommendations and learn lessons. Ensuring that Diversity, …
We are Ann Price of Community Evaluation Solutions and Susan Wolfe, of Susan Wolfe and Associates. We are both community psychologists and bring our community psychology values to everything we do. We do a lot of work with community coalitions primarily through training and evaluation. The primary values that ground our work include: respect for …
Hi, welcome to the Community Psychology TIG week! I’m Ijeoma Ezeofor and I’m an Evaluation and Learning Consultant at TCC Group and the Program Chair for the Community Psychology TIG. Community psychology has been described as a well-kept secret as many people are unfamiliar with it. In brief, community psychologists are committed to emphasizing prevention …
CP TIG Week: Finding Inspiration in 2021 by Ijeoma Ezeofor Read More »
Hi. I’m Patricia Moore Shaffer, Research & Analysis Deputy Director of the National Endowment for the Arts and served as the 2020 President of the Washington Evaluators. In my role as the agency’s internal evaluator, I began working with the Arts Endowment’s Our Town grant program team in 2016. The Our Town program supports creative placemaking …
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Hello! We are Drs. Yvette Clinton and Sharika Bhattacharya from ICF and we partner with Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) to evaluate their arts-integrated professional development programs implemented in Louisiana schools. These programs seek to increase teachers’ knowledge and capacity for arts-integrated instruction to positively impact student outcomes. As part of our formative and summative …
Hi! I’m Don Glass a learning designer and developmental evaluator. I’ve had the privilege of being on the Kennedy Center‘s internal Research and Evaluation team for several years. Of special interest to me has been working with our collective impact initiative to develop shared measurement for equitable access to arts learning opportunities. It has become …
ACM TIG Week: Collective Impact Meets Networked Improvement Science by Don Glass Read More »
