I am Corinna Souza and I am an evaluator at evalutechnica. Our small firm works primarily with regional school districts. Lately, I’ve been on the lookout for tools to help my evaluation team work collaboratively. There are four of us, working from two different offices, plus our key liaison to the schools with which we …
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Greetings AEA365 enthusiasts! My name is Susan Sloan and I’ve worked as a professional evaluator for about 20 years, first at Duerr Evaluation Resources in Northern California and for the last six years in the field of public health in the Pacific Northwest. Over the years, I’ve participated in many planning groups–some successful and some …
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Hi, we are Jane Powers and Christine Heib from Cornell University. We have been collaborating with a community agency to assess the needs and numbers of homeless youth in the county. In order to study this invisible sector of the youth population, we engaged a group of homeless youth as research partners. They helped develop …
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Hello, my name is Scott Chaplowe, and I am a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer with the International Federation Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The IFRC has a lot of stakeholders –communities, 186 National Societies, local governments, partners, donors, etc. One part of my job is to lead M&E trainings that empower …
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My name is Kim Sabo Flores, and I am the associate director of Thrive Foundation For Youth. Over the past ten years, the Foundation has partnered with leading youth development researchers, including Peter Benson, Bill Damon, Carol Dweck, Richard Lerner, and David Yaegar, to create a body of knowledge and an evidenced-based tool-kit (Step-It-Up-2-Thrive) that …
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Greetings from Maryland! I am Tessie Catsambas of EnCompass LLC, an evaluation, leadership, and organizational development organization. How easy it is to get lost in a client’s maze of politics, anxiety, stress, and complexities! And how easy it is to step on toes you do not even know were there! This post discusses strategies for …
My name is Susan Fojas. As the Associate Commissioner for Performance Measurement, Monitoring, and Improvement at New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), my goal is to improve the quality of services and outcomes achieved for children in foster care through evaluation and monitoring. Hot Tip: A valuable part of the evaluation process is …
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My name is Caroline DeWitt. I am a senior evaluator with Human Resources and Skill Development in Ottawa, Canada, and a member of the AEA Government Evaluation TIG. Our department is responsible for several evaluations ranging from labour market outcomes to grant and contributions programs delivered through third parties. An area of my responsibility was …
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Hi, I’m Dawn Hanson Smart, Senior Associate at Clegg & Associates, Inc. in Seattle. My colleagues, Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas from EnCompass LLC and Rakesh Mohan who works with the Idaho Legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations, and I are presenting at AEA’s upcoming conference on managing the sometimes conflicting agendas of evaluation stakeholders. (They both will …
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My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I teach workshops on evaluation and occasionally facilitate the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Essential Skills Series course. I am also a regular workshop presenter at AEA conferences, eStudy Webinars, and the Summer Evaluation Institute. I also Twitter …
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