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Judah Viola on Building Capacity to Succeed as an Independent Consultant

My name is Judah Viola and I am a Community Psychologist at National-Louis University in Chicago. I also manage an independent consulting practice specializing in program evaluation and collaborative community research. Whether boom or bust economy, it is never a bad time to build your own evaluation skills and capacity to provide value for clients. …

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Judith Kallick Russell on Translating Findings Into Action

3 Comments / Independent Consulting / August 23, 2010 July 26, 2010

Hello Colleagues! My name is Judith Kallick Russell. I am an independent evaluation consultant in civic engagement, community development and peace building. My clients are national organizations (NGOs) and international organizations (UN agencies, international NGOs and foundations). In my work, I have found that it can be challenging at the report writing stage to provide …

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Elizabeth Hutchinson on Working with Local Evaluators in International Settings

1 Comment / Government Evaluation, Independent Consulting, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / August 13, 2010 July 19, 2010

My name is Elizabeth Hutchinson and I am a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with Land O’Lakes International Development. My work focuses on evaluating United States Government-funded agriculture and food system development programs. Most people in the U.S. know of Land O’Lakes for its branded butter, but the division I work for has 30 years experience …

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LaMarcus Bolton on Communications Technologies for Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / August 7, 2010 July 23, 2010

My name is LaMarcus Bolton, and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Technology Director, as well as a doctoral student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. AEA’s Executive Director, Susan Kistler, is on vacation and I’m filling in with this Saturday’s staff post. Today, I wanted to discuss some of the great strides technology has made in terms …

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Heidi Gegax on Creating a Consultants Collaborative

1 Comment / Independent Consulting / July 15, 2010 July 2, 2010

Hi, my name is Heidi Gegax and I am a Minneapolis-based independent evaluator. In my business, I focus on clients who work with youth in out-of-school time programs. Most of the work I do is solo, which leaves me craving professional development without the cost and time needed for conferences or workshops. Rad Resource: Create …

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Linda Meyer on Helping Clients Develop Goals and Objectives

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / June 28, 2010 August 24, 2010

My name is Linda Meyer and I am an applied developmental psychology graduate student at Claremont Graduate University. I am going to give you a few tips on helping clients develop goals and objectives that can help you plan an evaluation. Knowing programs’ goals and objectives is useful for creating logic models for evaluation, but …

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Susan Kistler on Funding Opportunities for Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / June 5, 2010 June 6, 2010

My name is Susan Kistler and I am AEA’s Executive Director. I contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. AEA is striving to help evaluators know about evaluation funding opportunities, working to improve on two fronts: Listening and Identifying: Improving our processes for knowing about funding opportunities Disseminating and Communicating: Improving our processes for …

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IRB Part III: Jim Hammerman on Developing In-house Capacity

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / May 27, 2010 May 21, 2010

I’m Jim Hammerman, and I Co-Direct the Evaluation Group at TERC, a non-profit, primarily grant-funded math, science and technology, education research, development, and evaluation company in Cambridge, MA. I’m also a current member and former Chair of TERC’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). Several of us recently noted on AEA’s LinkedIn group that there are at …

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IRB Part II: Stephen Meyer on Contracting with Commercial Providers

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / May 26, 2010 May 21, 2010

My name is Stephen Meyer and I am a Senior Research Associate with RMC Research Corporation in Denver, Colorado. RMC Research conducts research and evaluation related to a wide range of education topics. Colleagues and I recently noted on AEA’s LinkedIn group that there are at least three ways to address the issue of Institutional …

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