Greetings to the aea365 community. I am Randi Ilyse Roth, Executive Director of Philanthropy for the Otto Bremer Foundation, based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with the mission of assisting people in achieving full economic, civic and social participation in and for the betterment of their communities in places where there are Bremer Banks. Not long …
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Hi, I’m Nora F. Murphy, co-founder of TerraLuna Collaborative, an evaluation cooperative in Minneapolis, MN with some thoughts about practicing Developmental Evaluation. Like many, I eagerly read Michael Quinn Patton’s Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use from cover to cover. The approach excited me because naturally taps into my chosen profession …
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I’m Kate McKegg, Director of The Knowledge Institute Ltd a member of the Kinnect Group with Nan Wehipeihana. We want to share what we have learned about explaining developmental evaluation (DE). Evaluation isn’t something that our clients or our communities fully understand and it can create anxiety. So, when we suggest that a client or …
Greetings to the aea365 community. We are Heather Huseby, Deborah Loon, Major Arnel Ruppel, Matt Lasure, Denise Smieja, and Andrea Simonett representing six agencies in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, serving homeless youth. Rad Resource: Through an 18-month developmental evaluation process our six quite distinct agencies collaborated to develop and evaluate nine guiding principles to …
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Greetings to the aea365 community. We are with the Blandin Foundation based in Grand Rapids, Minnesota with the mission of strengthening rural Minnesota communities, especially the Grand Rapids area. We are Wade Fauth, Vice President, and Allison Ahcan, Director of Communications. Since 2007, Blandin Foundation has committed itself to building an organization-wide assessment system that contributes …
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I am Michael Quinn Patton, author of Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use. I am an independent consultant based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I have been doing and writing about evaluation for over 40 years. This week features posts by colleagues and clients engaged in various developmental evaluation initiatives. Rad Resource:Developmental …
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Happy Earth Week from the EPE TIG! My name is Lydia Lange. I am the Co-Chair of the EPE TIG and an independent researcher/evaluator specializing in natural resource management and sustainability education. In honor of Earth Week, I want to share a bit about environmental evaluation and the privilege we have as a TIG to …
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Hello! My name is Anna Williams. I have worked on issues related to sustainable development as an evaluator, facilitator, and agent of change for 20+ years. The concept of sustainable development took hold 25 years ago, but several challenges have hampered interpretation and analysis of progress, starting with these: 1. The oft-cited 1987 Brundtland Commission …
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Hi everyone! I’m Yvonne M. Watson, an Evaluator in U.S. EPA’s Evaluation Support Division and Chair of AEA’s Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group. As we celebrate Earth Week in April and prepare for the annual American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference in October, the theme of sustainability looms large. As I think about an area …
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Andy Rowe here, I evaluate sustainable development and natural resource interventions. I am convinced evaluation is facing a key adapt or decline juncture. Connectivity is the mechanism enabling us to understand how interventions reach to the public interest and effects in the natural system. Our siloed governance approaches come from cost and accountability structures in …
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