I am Arlene Hopkins, an educator and architect, and I provide consulting services in evaluation. Extending my work beyond education, libraries, land use and facilities, I am interested in standards, metrics and tools applied to environmental sustainability programs and projects. Recently I have been focusing on evaluation standards, metrics and practices within the emerging subfield …
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Greetings fellow AEA365 blog readers. My name is Duncan Meyers and I am a graduate student at the University of South Carolina in the Clinical/Community Psychology program. I have a strong interest in evaluation and have been an evaluator for community-based mental health services, an after-school obesity prevention program, and a project aimed at increasing …
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My name is Matt Keene and I work with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Evaluation Support Division, where I help to coordinate the Environmental Evaluators Network (EEN). The purpose of the EEN is to advance the field of environmental evaluation through more systematic and collective learning. The EEN’s 5th annual Forum will be held in Washington …
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My name is Karlyn Eckman. I’m a researcher at the University of Minnesota Water Resources Center, and also a long-time United Nations consultant. I’d like to share an evaluation tool that we’ve borrowed from our colleagues in public health and psychology. The knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) study method has been used for decades in …
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This is Andy Rowe. I am an independent consultant operating from the US in South Carolina and Canada from Hilton Beach Ontario. My first evaluation of a resource related program was an evaluation of the Newfoundland Bait Service in 1985. Since then I have undertaken evaluations in many social and natural settings and on all …
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My name is Jane Peters, and I am the owner of a 19 person firm in Portland Oregon that conducts process and market evaluations of energy efficiency, renewable energy program and other resource conserving programs. I am a 20-year member of AEA and a board member of the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC), which …
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My name is Juan Paulo Ramírez and I am a research specialist with the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center. I use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for project evaluations which have included a broad variety of applications both in the social and physical sciences. Recently a lot of interest has been concentrated on geographic visualization, …
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Hello! My name is Annelise Carleton-Hug and I am a principle partner of Trillium Associates a research, evaluation and consulting company serving clients with programs involving the intersections of environment, education and communities. Hot Tip: As Chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Environmental Program Evaluation (EPE) topical interest group, I invite you to check out …
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My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association. I contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. Last week, I noted that I was writing from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). This week, I am going to try to tie together learnings from NTC, upcoming events within …
We are the Green Team, aka Kim Walker and Karen Truesdale, members of the organizing committee for the 2010 Conference of the Canadian Evaluation Society. Our role is to encourage practices that optimize the environmental impact of this large conference. Why worry about being “green”? …. during a typical five day conference, 500 attendees will …
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