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Bloggers Series: Trina Willard on For Good Measure

Greetings!  I’m Trina Willard, Principal of Knowledge Advisory Group, a small, woman-owned management consulting firm.  I’ll be sharing information about our company’s blog, For Good Measure. Rad Resource – For Good Measure:   Knowledge Advisory Group publishes For Good Measure about 1-2 times per month to disseminate information about measurement and evaluation as it relates to …

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Bloggers Series: Kirsten Rewey on the ACET, Inc. Blog

Hi! I’m Kirsten Rewey, the Senior Evaluation Associate at ACET, Inc. I have been blogging for just under 2 years on the ACET, Inc. Blog. Rad Resource – ACET, Inc. Blog: The ACET, Inc. Blog is one way I am able to connect with members of the greater ‘evaluation community.’ And not just other evaluators, …

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Bloggers Series: Cameron Norman on CENSEMaking

I’m Cameron Norman, and I am the Principal of CENSE Research + Design. Rad Resource – [CENSEMaking]: CENSEMaking is a play on the name of my research and design studio consultancy and on the concept of sensemaking, something evaluators help with all the time. CENSEMaking focuses on the interplay of systems and design thinking, health …

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Bloggers Series: Alexey Kuzmin on Evaluation Space

Hello, I’m Alexey Kuzmin, president of the Process Consulting Company based in Moscow, Russia. My company’s specialization is program evaluation and evaluation related services. I have two evaluation blogs – in Russian and in English. Rad Resource – Evaluation Space This is my English blog. Its focus is evaluation – no surprises. The blog concept …

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Bloggers Series: Jara Dean-Coffey on To What End

Hello world! I’m Jara Dean-Coffey, the Principal and founder of jdcPartnerships, a consulting firm working at the intersection of strategy and evaluation primarily with small to mid size organizations in the social and philanthropic sectors focusing on issues related to equity, access and social justice. The name of our blog is To What End? Because …

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Johanna Morariu on Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception and the Evaluation Profession

I’m Johanna Morariu, co-director at Innovation Network, an evaluation consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations and foundations. Rad Resource: Every now and then I come across an article or book that makes me fundamentally rethink what I thought I knew. One that I want to share with you all is the book Proofiness: The …

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Bloggers Series: Rick Davies on Rick on the Road

Hi, my name is Rick Davies, I am an independent evaluation consultant, based in Cambridge, UK. I have been working with international development aid programs in Africa and Asia, in various roles since 1980. I run the Rick on the Road blog. Rad Resource – The Rick on the Road blog started in 2004, and …

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Bloggers Series: Amy Germuth on EvalThoughts

Hi, I’m Amy Germuth, owner of EvalWorks, LLC,  an evaluation and survey company in Chapel Hill-Durham, NC. Rad Resource – EvalThoughts.com:  EvalThoughts focuses on four main areas: Evaluation, Surveying, Methodology, and Consulting. Content is usually posted monthly or more frequently (although sometimes life intervenes instead!).  Where possible I try to examine my own practices and …

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Naomi Walsh on a Must-Have Free Timeline Maker

I’m Naomi Walsh and I am a novice consultant. One of the challenges of breaking into consulting is presenting yourself as a professional. One way that I do this is to share timelines for projects that I am working on – they show that I am organized and prepared, and provide a visual planning aid …

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Denise Roseland on Building Credibility at a Distance

Greetings everyone! I am Denise Roseland, an independent consultant with Minneapolis-based Social Venture Research & Evaluation. I have moved five times in four years and the benefit of working as a consultant is that my work moves with me.  While many of my clients were once in my backyard, the many moves mean we are …

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