Environmental Program Evaluation

Hi, I’m Bethany Laursen, philosophy & sustainability graduate student at Michigan State University and principal consultant at Laursen Evaluation & Design, LLC. Hooray, it’s Earth Week! Why is this something to celebrate? Because we value the environment, and that’s a wonderful, terrifying responsibility for us as evaluators. Values are wonderful and scary because they are …

EPE TIG Week: What’s Valuable about the Environment? by Bethany Laursen Read More »

Hi, I’m Rupu Gupta, Co-Chair of AEA’s Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group and Researcher at New Knowledge Organization, a non-profit research and evaluation think tank. As a conservation psychologist, my research interests lie in understanding how people perceive different forms of nature and how they relate to caring for it. Most recently, my evaluation …

EPE TIG Week: Exciting Role of Evaluation in Community-based Resilience Projects by Rupu Gupta Read More »

Hello, I’m Jeff Danter, Senior Vice President from The Trust for Public Land. Peter Drucker famously said “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This is especially true when considering the utility of evaluation and measurement for management decision-making. For evaluation and measurement data to be effective in influencing strategy, an organization must possess a management culture …

EPE TIG Week: Culture of Evaluation and Measurement by Jeff Danter Read More »

Greetings from Caroline Stem, Coordinator of the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP). CMP is a group of leading conservation organizations from around the world that recognizes the importance of a common language and process to facilitate learning within and across conservation efforts. CMP maintains a set of standards for designing, implementing, monitoring, and adapting conservation programs …

EPE TIG Week: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Using Diagrams in Monitoring and Evaluation by Caroline Stem Read More »

Hello! I am Mary Sutter, a Partner at Grounded Research and Consulting, LLC and have been evaluating the somewhat niche area of energy efficiency programs for my entire professional career (27 years). Recently, I was privileged to lead an extraordinary group of colleagues in our effort to codify an introductory certificate for evaluators in our …

EPE TIG Week: Certification for Energy Efficiency Program Evaluators by Mary Sutter Read More »

My name is Allison Van and I am currently an evaluator at the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and the owner of Allison Van Consulting.  Previously I managed The Pasture Project for Winrock International, which was an effort to build a movement among farmers …

EPE TIG Week: Budgeting through Uncertainty by Allison Van Read More »