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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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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My name is Jose Diaz, and I am one of the economists in Wilder Research conducting social return on investment analysis. How many times have you been approached by a program leader asking you for an evaluation and just after a few minutes of talking you realize that the program does not have enough data …
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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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I’m Steve Mayer, a founder of AEA and a predecessor organization, the Evaluation Research Society. My training includes a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (University of Minnesota), but when Donald Campbell’s classic article, “Reforms as Experiments” came out, I left academia and hung out my shingle. I was the founder and first executive director, for 23 …
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