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APC Week: Rhonda Schlangen on Joint Evaluation Strategies for Advocacy and Services

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 6, 2013 February 6, 2013

My name is Rhonda Schlangen, and I’m an independent evaluation consultant specializing in advocacy and campaign evaluation. Non-governmental service delivery organizations use advocacy as a lever for greater impact. They often have a tough time finding useful internal evaluation systems to assess their combined service delivery and advocacy work. Many service providers try to fall …

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APC Week: Edmina Bradshaw on Evaluating the Advocacy Efforts of Non-Profits – After the Fact….

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 5, 2013 February 5, 2013

My name is Dr. Edmina Bradshaw, Principal Consultant of Edmina Bradshaw LLC. I work with a small group of professionals on program planning and evaluation for national and local nonprofit organizations, mostly in the aging field. I also support organizations in implementing self-directed volunteer teams(sdvnetwork.com) across the country. I find that while the need for …

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APC Week: Carlisle Levine on Useful Tools for Assessing Advocacy Progress

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 4, 2013 February 4, 2013

Hello! I’m Carlisle Levine, an independent evaluator specializing in organizational and advocacy evaluation. I have led CARE USA’s advocacy evaluation and co-led Catholic Relief Services’ program evaluation. As an internal and independent evaluator, I have learned important lessons about advocacy evaluation. Lessons Learned: Influencing policy change is a lengthy, convoluted process involving many actors, actions …

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APC Week: David Devlin-Foltz on Advocacy and Policy Change Week

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 3, 2013 February 3, 2013

Welcome to Advocacy and Policy Change TIG week on AEA365! I’m David Devlin-Foltz and I co-chair our TIG when I’m not directing the Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program at The Aspen Institute or, well, doing other things. My team and I work principally with foundations and nonprofits to assess efforts to advocate for policy change …

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Elissa Schloesser on 5 Steps for Translating Evaluation Findings into Infographics

4 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / January 21, 2013 January 21, 2013

My name is Elissa Schloesser, I’m a freelance graphic designer specializing in communicating complex information and ideas. I work specifically with mission-based organization, and partner with a number of evaluators to create communication pieces that summarize evaluation findings for use with funders, potential supporters, and to be more broadly shared with the public. Below are …

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EEE Week: Melissa Cater on Building a Community of Practice

1 Comment / Extension Education Evaluation / January 18, 2013 January 18, 2013

My name is Melissa Cater, and I am an assistant professor and evaluation specialist at Louisiana State University AgCenter. The purpose of the Evaluation CoP is to support people within the Cooperative Extension system who are interested in evaluating Extension programs. While the focus of our group is supporting Extension evaluation efforts, the information is …

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EEE Week: Sarah Baughman on Building Evaluation Capacity Across Disciplines: From Feral Hogs and Fire Ants to Families

Leave a Comment / Extension Education Evaluation / January 17, 2013 January 17, 2013

Hi! I’m Sarah Baughman, Evaluation and Research Leader for eXtension. eXtension is the virtual presence of the Cooperative Extension System. We work with faculty from land grant universities to provide unbiased, research-based educational resources across a wide range of topics including feral hogs, fire ants, and families through our 70 communities of practice. A major …

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EEE Week: Nancy Franz on Public Value Story Telling

2 Comments / Extension Education Evaluation / January 16, 2013 January 16, 2013

Hi, I’m Nancy Franz the Associate Dean for Extension and Outreach and Director of the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach to Families. Organizational sustainability for many agencies, nonprofit organizations, and groups now relies on translating the value of what they do for a wider audience than in the past. Principles of public sector economics …

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EEE Week: Kim Norris on Creating an Evaluation Culture

2 Comments / Extension Education Evaluation / January 15, 2013 January 15, 2013

My name is Kim Norris and I am an Evaluation Coordinator for University of Maryland Extension, specializing in organizational and systems change efforts. Developing a culture of evaluation for non-formal educational organizations is critical to providing focus and accountability, yet challenging. Funders and other stakeholders seek clearly communicated, robust, timely information about program impacts for …

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EEE Week: Michael Lambur on Affordable Website Online Usability Testing

Leave a Comment / Extension Education Evaluation / January 14, 2013 January 14, 2013

Hello, my name is Michael Lambur. I am currently the Associate Director for Program Development with Virginia Cooperative Extension. I have been an Extension evaluator since 1985 and recently spent five years as the Evaluation and Research Leader with the eXtension initiative. Website usability testing measures the suitability of a website for its users and …

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