Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation – Page 10

Wilder Research Week: Edith Gozali-Lee on Multisite Longitudinal Studies in Education

Hello, I am Edith Gozali-Lee, a research scientist at Wilder Research. I work primarily on research and evaluation projects related to education. I am currently working on a multi-site, longitudinal study of an early childhood initiative. The study includes three cohorts of school-based preschool program children in ten schools, five cohorts of community-based child care …

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Wilder Research Week: Brian Pittman on Complex Systems

Hello, I am Brian Pittman, a Research Associate at Wilder Research. Our work involves many different topics, scopes, and stakeholders, but an increasing proportion of our projects deal with complexity. Therefore, we work to learn and use the principles and practices of complex systems in our work. This post includes a brief primer of the …

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Wilder Research Week: Dan Swanson on Data Quality

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / August 8, 2012 August 8, 2012

Hi, I’m Dan Swanson, Assistant Survey Research Manager at Wilder Research. I oversee our survey center where I am responsible for implementing and maintaining quality control measures throughout the data collection process. A phrase often repeated here at Wilder is, “No matter how you analyze or write about the data, its quality cannot get any …

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Wilder Research Week: Caryn Mohr on Case Studies

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / August 6, 2012 July 27, 2012

Hello, I am Caryn Mohr, a Research Scientist at Wilder Research, a nonprofit human services research and evaluation group in St. Paul, Minnesota. Our work ranges from qualitative to quasi-experimental studies, and often involves multiple research methods. My recent work has afforded the opportunity to see the merits and challenges in conducting case study research. …

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Wilder Research Week: Paul Mattessich on Foundations and Evaluation

1 Comment / Evaluation Use, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / August 5, 2012 July 27, 2012

I’m Paul Mattessich, Executive Director of Wilder Research. Our staff includes about 30 applied research professionals who study program effectiveness and community trends related to: children; education; public health; housing; homelessness; aging; social disparities; and other topics. The mission of Wilder Research is to improve the lives of individuals, families, and communities through human services …

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Jane Eppard on the Importance of Reporting Evaluation Results

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 2, 2012 July 30, 2012

Greetings, I am Jane Eppard, Vice-Chair of the Family Hope Foundation. We founded FHF in 2009 with a mission to invest in children with special needs through family support, engaging community experts, advocacy through collaboration, and financial assistance to provide access to therapies. In a very short amount of time we have gained community support …

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AZENet Week: Evan Mendelson on Evaluating System Change: Helping Donors Understand What Success Looks Like

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / June 15, 2012 May 25, 2012

I’m Evan Mendelson, Vice President of Donor Relations and Program Services at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (CFSA). I work with both sides of the philanthropic enterprise – the funders and the nonprofits they fund. Donors always ask nonprofits to evaluate how the grant they are providing makes a difference. Too often the nonprofit …

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Susan Kistler on the Community Toolbox

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / June 2, 2012 June 3, 2012

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. Today I’m writing from Atlanta and the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. I wanted to share a bit more about a great resource originally mentioned by Susan Wolfe in her August 2010 post. Rad Resource – The Community Toolbox: The Community Toolbox provided …

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Bloggers Series: Priya Small on the Nonprofit Capacity Building Blog

1 Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / April 26, 2012 November 18, 2012

Hi! I’m Priya Small, an independent evaluation consultant/subcontractor. I am also an evaluation writer and blogger for the Free Management Library’s Nonprofit Capacity Building blog, hosted by Authenticity Consulting, Inc. Rad Resource – Blog: Nonprofit Capacity Building: True to its title, this blog focuses on building capacity for nonprofits! All my posts focus on evaluation, …

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