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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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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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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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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My name is Rita Overton and I have been an evaluator for 20 years. I’ve called myself an organizational development specialist, an applied researcher, and a strategic consultant, but at the heart of it all, I am an evaluator. When I started working in this field, I found it difficult to explain what I did …
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Greetings, Colleagues! I am Cindy Tananis, Director of the Collaborative for Evaluation and Assessment Capacity (CEAC) in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh (www.ceac.pitt.edu). Like many evaluation contractors, independent contractors and those in academic settings, the financial crisis looming over many not-for-profit and educational ventures, has hit our client base hard. Evaluation …
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I am Connie Hoskins, a Research Associate at Vital Research, a research and evaluation consulting firm in the education, health, social services, aging services, and corporate sectors. Although we are based in Los Angeles, we conduct a great deal of our work in other states and nationwide. In one biennial project, we conduct interviews with …
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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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I am Oksana Barley. I am a home-based evaluation practitioner and I meet my clients in their chosen space. I always set out with what I think of as my Evaluation Emergency Preparedness Toolkit. Rad Resource – Toolkit: Here are the items in my Toolkit. Graph Paper Notepad: I find it easier to explain things …
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My name is John Colon and I work for Better Questions Better Answers. I’m amazed by what is available, for free, for my computer. Here are some of my favorite, can’t live without, better than sliced bread tools. Rad Resources: I’d like to share 9 tools that make my life easier. 10: Gantzilla: Free version …
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