Hi, my name is Susan Wolfe and I am the CEO of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC. My company provides evaluation, needs assessment, training, and coalition development focused mostly on health and education equity. One of the benefits of working independently is that I have control over my professional development. If I see something that …
Hi, I am Mindelyn Anderson, Ph.D., Founder + Principal Consultant of Mirror Group LLC, LEEAD* Protege, and IC TIG Program Co-Chair. Hi, I am Geri Lynn Peak, DrPH, Chief Insight Facilitator of Two Gems Consulting Services and Itinerant Social Actionist, 3X LEEAD Mentor, Mirror Group Birth Doula. We are sharing our experiences of how our …
IC TIG Week: June 5th is My Independence Day by Mindelyn Anderson & Geri Lynn Peak Read More »
Hi everyone! I am Ann Price, Founder and President of Community Evaluation Solutions (CES). We help non-profits, foundations and community coalitions design, implement and evaluate social change strategies to make this world more just and equitable and help them tell their story. I founded CES in 2004 and like many of us, the pandemic caused …
IC TIG Week: Using a Sabbatical to Transform My Consulting Practice by Ann Price Read More »
Hello! We are Amanda Klein, Ann Price, Chelsea BaileyShea, and James Pann of the IC TIG. We are all independent evaluators and members of one of the IC TIG Mastermind groups. We each live in different states, but we’ve been meeting via Zoom every two weeks since January 2020 to discuss our businesses and evaluation …
Hi! I’m Chad E. Kee, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of WhitworthKee Consulting, LLC. The COVID-19 pandemic and police brutality leading to the death of yet another Black person, George Floyd, are highlighting—yet again—systemic racism that exists in our society. As a Black male, I am disturbed by the current state of our society and find …
IC TIG Week: Evaluation as a Tool for Social Justice by Chad E. Kee Read More »
Greetings, AEA365 community! My name is Nina Sabarre. I am the Chair-Elect of the Independent Consulting TIG and the Founder & Principal of Intention 2 Impact, LLC. The IC TIG is honored to host the week leading up to Independence Day to share our experiences and resources related to this week’s theme: “Leveraging Independence for …
IC TIG Week: Leveraging Independence for Transformation by Nina Sabarre Read More »
Hello, all! We are Meg Long of Equal Measure and Clare Nolan of Engage R&D, co-founders of FEAN, the Funder and Evaluator Affinity Network. FEAN’S goal is to change the relationship between funders and evaluators from a transactional one to a partnership, shifting the field of philanthropic evaluation to become fairer, more equitable, and more …
The role of values in advancing field-level change by Meg Long and Clare Nolan Read More »
I’m Maryfrances Porter, the President and Founder of Partnerships for Strategic Impact™. We specialize in helping nonprofits, governments, foundations, and corporate CSRs design maximally effective programs and initiatives, ensure high quality implementation, demonstrate impact, and to get their data working for them. In our work since COVID19, we have identified 6 strategies to help structure …
Strategic Resilience: Shifting Programming and Data Collection by Maryfrances Porter Read More »
Vidhya Shanker of Minneapolis here, with another attempt to repair the miseducation of evaluators regarding the contributions of women of color and indigenous women, particularly their understanding of systemic oppression, to evaluation’s history. Today I highlight Dr. Kien Lee, Principal Associate/Vice President of Community Science. Lee has advanced not just a structural analysis, but also …
Hello! My name is Teresa McCaffrey and I am the Director of Research and Evaluation at the Educational Partnership Center (EPC) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The EPC consists of 10 programs, working with over 11,000 underserved middle and high school students each year. Housing multiple programs with similar goals provided us with …
Guiding Collective Impact through Evaluation by Teresa McCaffrey Read More »
