I’m Tim Leisman and I organize with Code for Greensboro, a chapter of the national nonprofit Code for America. I’m passionate about civic tech, a phrase that describes a movement beyond just “technology for civic purposes” which is what the phrase implies at first. Civic hackers – those who engage in civic tech work – …
NC Evaluators Week: Evaluation as civic practice by Tim Leisman Read More »
Hello my fellow evaluators. My name is Chris Lysy, and I am a freelance evaluator, designer, and trainer based in Cary, North Carolina. My consulting work involves helping organizations deal with the virtual shift (shifting programs from the “real world” to the “virtual world”). Over the last couple of decades lots of organizations have evolved …
Hello, my name is Kamna Mantode. I work as a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at Compassion International. Having earned a PhD in Public Administration and through my work experience of over 10 years supporting evaluation in public and nonprofit space, I hold a high regard for cultivating “feedback” and “listening” practices in development and …
NC Evaluators Week: Feedback Loops- Add on’s or must have? by Kamna Mantode Read More »
Greetings fellow AEA evaluators! I am Carrol Warren and I am fortunate to have the opportunity to teach graduate courses centered around evaluation and program planning. It is through those teaching experiences that I’ve come to appreciate unique assignments that serve to engage my students as they learn about evaluation. Evaluators serve in a position …
NC Evaluators Week: Teaching Moments in Evaluation by Carrol Warren Read More »
Hi. I’m Ellen Wilson. I worked for two decades at RTI International in North Carolina, doing public health research and evaluation, after which I started my own consulting business, Insight Evaluation. I’ve been thinking a lot about the process of responding to requests for proposals (RFPs) lately, as I work through what lessons from my …
NC Evaluators Week: Considerations for Responding to an RFP by Ellen Wilson Read More »
My name is Noelle Wyman Roth and I am a Research & Evaluation Analyst at the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University. In addition to working as a full-time evaluator, I am beginning a part-time PhD program at UNC-Greensboro this fall. I’m writing to share why being a non-traditional PhD student by pursuing my …
Hello, everyone! My name is Jessica Sperling, and I work in evaluation-aligned arenas based in Duke University: leading the Applied Research, Evaluation & Engagement area at Duke’s Social Science Research Institute, co-directing Evaluation and Strategic Planning for Duke’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and teaching evaluation and community-partnered research. More importantly for this post, though, …
Hi! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s lead curator, and sometimes Saturday contributor. From time to time I write about various aspects of our association, events or learning opportunities AEA offers. To date however, I haven’t written about the policy advocacy that AEA engages in, and this is critically important work. Lesson Learned: According to our …
A Call to Check out AEA’s Policy Advocacy Work by Sheila B. Robinson Read More »
My name is Rick Stoddart and I am Head of User & Research Services at the University of Idaho. Libraries offer evaluators many useful tools including access to community data, methodological resources for evaluation, research expertise, and even public spaces to present findings. Here are some tips to get you started: Rad Resource: Library Card …
Best of AEA365: Leveraging Libraries for Evaluation Success by Rick Stoddart Read More »
Hi there, my name is Amanda Kelley Corbin. I am an evaluation analyst at The Human Development Institute (HDI), Kentucky’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, University of Kentucky. We help to improve lifelong opportunities and services for individuals with disabilities, their families, and the community. Before becoming an evaluator, I received an MFA in fiction …
Using a Storytelling Model for Evaluation Reporting by Amanda Kelley Corbin Read More »
