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LaRED TIG Week: Building our culture of evaluation with high staff engagement–lessons learned from an internal (nonprofit) evaluation team by Alisha Garcia Flores, Vianney Leon, and Matthew Silva

1 Comment / Internal Evaluation, Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / August 22, 2020

(Spanish version) ?Buenos días! We are Alisha Garcia Flores, Vianney Leon, and Matthew Silva — representing an internal evaluation and data team at Enlace Chicago in the Little Village community, Chicago, Illinois.  Enlace Chicago is a community-based nonprofit that strives to build the capacity of Little Village stakeholders to confront systemic inequities and social injustices. …

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LaRED TIG Week: Lessons Learned from Community-Engaged Evaluations by Jessica Saucedo and Tatiana Elisa Bustos

1 Comment / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse / August 22, 2020

(Spanish version) Hello! We are Jessica Saucedo and Tatiana Elisa Bustos, PhD students studying community psychology with interests in health equity research, implementation science, and equitable evaluation with Indigenous and Latinx communities. We wanted to share our experiences completing community-engaged evaluation internships in the context of first-generation doctoral students and in relation to engaging marginalized …

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LaRED TIG Week: Utilizing Latinx college peer leaders as institutional agents of change by Oscar Cerna

Leave a Comment / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse / August 25, 2020

(Spanish version) My name is Oscar Cerna, and I’m an Evaluation Research Associate at MDRC in Oakland, CA. At the risk of stating the obvious, the population of Latinx students attending college will continue to grow and diversify. Many higher education institutions have recognized this demographic shift and know they must equally increase their attention …

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LaRED TIG Week: Chocolate Cake Making: How the Mission Promise Neighborhood implements the Collective Impact Approach as a recipe to achieve results by Liz Cortez

Leave a Comment / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse / August 24, 2020

(Spanish version)  Hi, I’m Liz Cortez, Associate Director of the Mission Promise Neighborhood (MPN) Initiative at the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. My career has always focused on advancing social justice by working with communities of color to improve outcomes in financial stability and education. I am …

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LaRED TIG Week: Becoming Culturally Responsive During COVID-19 Era by Diana Lemos

Leave a Comment / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse / August 22, 2020

(Spanish version) Hello fellow evaluators! I am Diana Lemos from the Center for Health Equity at the American Medical Association in Chicago, IL. Our nation’s approach to the COVID-19 epidemic has left us with many important lessons and difficult learnings. At the Center, we built an ongoing repository of health equity-focused resources to identify and …

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LaRED TIG Week: Deepening our ability to understand our Latinx communities and our culturally responsive approaches by Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, Susana Morales and David Garcia

1 Comment / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse / August 25, 2020

(Spanish version) ?Saludos! We are Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, Susana Morales and David Garcia from the Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse (La RED) Topical Interest Group (TIG). We are excited to be kicking off this AEA365 week in advance of Hispanic/Latino/Latinx heritage month which begins mid-September. To center Latinx voices in evaluation, one must first recognize that …

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Getting Ready for the Conference with the AEA Guiding Principles by Leanne Kallemeyn

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 1, 2020

My name is Leanne Kallemeyn, and I am currently a member of the AEA Guiding Principles Working Group.  As we get ready for the 2020 virtual AEA conference, I want to address a change that was planned prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.  If you submitted a proposal, you may recall that you were asked to …

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Is Virtual Logic Model Coaching Here to Stay? by Taylor Harrell and Kendra Straub

2 Comments / Uncategorized / August 22, 2020

Hello, AEA colleagues! We are internal evaluators Taylor Harrell and Kendra Straub from the Metropolitan Area Action Committee on Anti-Poverty (MAAC), whose mission is to maximize self-sufficiency with families and individuals through high-quality programs and advocacy in our communities. As a result of the disruption caused by COVID-19, our programs have been required to pivot …

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Improving Performance with Flowcharts by Ruth Aboagye

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / August 22, 2020

Hello again from Ruth Aboagye – UMass Medical School, co-author of 3 blogs when we touched on Facts and Failures and talked in depth about Fishbones and Five Whys.  Today, the focus will be on process flows also known as Flowcharts, which visually convey the steps in a process.  More importantly, it helps you understand …

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EVALpalooza by Matt Feldmann and Asma Ali

7 Comments / Uncategorized / September 1, 2020

Hello, we’re Matt Feldmann, president of Evaluation Association of St. Louis (EASL), and Asma Ali, president of Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA). With in-person conferences out of the question, we got together in Spring 2020 to dream up a different way to engage evaluators. We joined evaluators Kylie Hutchinson and Sheila B. Robinson and…VOILA!… started EVALpalooza.  …

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