Hello, AEA folks! This is Jay Wade from PIE Org, a strategic partner of Become, and I am an evaluation capacity building (ECB) nerd! As a practitioner of ECB, I always wonder…what happens after our contract ends? Do organizations sustain evaluation practice? It turns out…they do! As part of my dissertation, I looked into the …
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Hi, we are Andrew Taylor from Taylor Newberry Consulting and Ben Liadsky from the Ontario Nonprofit Network. For the past couple of years we have been working to identify and address the systemic issues that impede useful evaluation in the nonprofit sector. We’ve shared part of our journey with AEA365 previously and now we want …
Greetings, I am June Gothberg, Ph.D. from Western Michigan University, Chair of the Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations TIG and co-author of the Universal Design for Evaluation Checklist (4th ed.). Historically, our TIG has been a ‘working’ TIG, working collaboratively with AEA and the field to build capacity for accessible and inclusive evaluation. Several terms tend to …
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My name is Awab and I am working as Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist for Tertiary Education Support Project (TESP), at the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad, Pakistan. In my experience, the most challenging task in any evaluation is to sell the findings and recommendations to the decision makers and make the evaluation usable. Many evaluations stay on …
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I am Keith Child, a Senior Research Advisor to the Committee on Sustainability Assessment. The debate around appropriate criteria for measuring research quality has taken a new turn as development donors apply collective pressure on development agencies to prove that they can bringing about positive change for intended beneficiaries. It is within this research for …
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This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). My name is Stan Capela and the Vice President for Quality Management and Corporate Compliance Officer for HeartShare Human Services of New York. Why I chose to honor this evaluator: I am honoring Michael Q. …
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Hi y’all, Daphne Brydon here. I am a clinical social worker and independent evaluator. In social work, we know that a positive relationship built between the therapist and client is more important than professional training in laying the foundation for change at an individual level. I believe positive engagement is key in effective evaluation as …
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We are Erin Bock of The Sherwood Foundation and Nora Murphy of TerraLuna Collaborative. We feel fortunate to have been partners in developmental evaluations for several years now, each of acting as an important thought partner and sounding board for the other. We recently partnered on an evaluation for a community-wide initiative. The Adolescent Health …
I am Arnold Love from Toronto, the recent host city of the 2015 Para- and Pan American Games. Toronto also hosted the first Accessibility Innovation Showcase to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act and the 10th Anniversary of the Ontarians with Disabilities Act. My evaluation interests include both sports and accessibility, …
We are Joy Kaufman, Associate Professor at Yale University School of Medicine and Director of Program and Service System Evaluation and Evaluation Research and Andrew Case, Assistant Professor or Psychology at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. We are pleased that the Evaluation Use TIG asked us to share work we have done in engaging …
