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NPF TIG Week: Gretchen Shanks on What Do We Mean by “Evaluation Resources”?

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 28, 2014 September 27, 2014

Hi, I’m Gretchen Shanks with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Strategy, Measurement and Evaluation (SM&E) team. Our team works to ensure the foundation’s leadership, program teams and partners have the necessary capacity, tools and support to measure progress, to make decisions and to learn what works best to achieve our goals. Before the Foundation, …

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Laura Beals on How Nonprofits can Support Academic Research Requests

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / December 4, 2013 December 1, 2013

Hello! I am Laura Beals and I am an internal evaluator at Jewish Family and Children’s Service (JF&CS). JF&CS is a large nonprofit social service agency located just outside of Boston, MA. As we are surrounded by 58 institutions of higher learning, we have many opportunities to leverage students and faculty in order to increase …

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Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, and Ann Emery on New Research: The State of Evaluation 2012

Hello! We are Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, and Ann Emery from Innovation Network. For 20 years, Innovation Network has helped nonprofits and foundations evaluate and learn from their work. In 2010, Innovation Network set out to answer a question that was previously unaddressed in the evaluation field—what is the state of nonprofit evaluation practice and …

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LAWG Week: Will Fenn on the Evaluation Merry-Go-Round

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / February 25, 2013 February 25, 2013

Welcome to the Evaluation 2013 Conference Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) week on aea365. I’m Will Fenn from Innovation Network a Washington, D.C.-based monitoring and evaluation consulting firm specializing in advocacy and policy change evaluation. There is an all too common situation that arises around evaluation — I’ll call it the evaluation merry-go-round. I saw …

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Bloggers Series: Ann Emery on the Emery Evaluation Blog

1 Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / February 13, 2013 February 13, 2013

Greetings! I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. Rad Resource – Emery Evaluation: Like many evaluators, I wear several hats – full-time evaluation consultant, part-time research methods graduate student, and 24/7 data nerd. My blog weaves these roles together: I blog about my adventures as a nonprofit and foundations evaluator. I share data …

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Bloggers Series: Brian Hoessler on the Strong Roots Blog

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / February 11, 2013 February 11, 2013

Hi everyone, my name is Brian Hoessler and I am an independent consultant in Saskatoon, Canada. Through my company, Strong Roots Consulting, I work with non-profit organizations and community-based initiatives to build their capacity through research, strategic planning, and evaluation. Rad Resource – Strong Roots blog: The website for Strong Roots is also home to …

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CEA Week: Holly Lewandowski on Encouraging Clients to Think Evaluatively to Strengthen their Programs

2 Comments / Independent Consulting, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / November 9, 2012 November 2, 2012

My name is Holly Lewandowski. I am the owner of Evaluation for Change, Inc. a consulting firm that specializes in program evaluation, grant writing, and research for nonprofits, state agencies, and universities. I worked as an internal evaluator for nonprofits for ten years prior to starting my business four years ago. There have been some …

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MNEA Week: Reid Zimmerman on Working with Non-Profits

2 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / October 19, 2012 September 28, 2012

I’m Reid Zimmerman, a thirty-year veteran of the nonprofit sector in Minnesota and a member of the faculty at Hamline and Capella Universities where I teach intro to research and evaluation courses in graduate nonprofit programs. Even though my PhD is in Organizational Development and Effectiveness, I am often called, as a Certified Fund Raising …

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Susan Kistler on Two Terrific Evaluation Podcasts

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Independent Consulting, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 15, 2012 September 15, 2012

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. I’ve written before about podcasts of interest to evaluators, but they were from peripheral fields. Today, I’m excited to see evaluators entering the fray. Hot Tip – Podcasts are for everyone: The word ‘podcast’ is associated …

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Naomi Walsh on A Free Journal for Those Who Love Data (and who doesn’t?)

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 10, 2012 September 10, 2012

My name is Naomi Walsh. I am an independent consultant working primarily with nonprofits. Today, I want to share information about a favorite, free, online journal. Rad Resource: NTEN is the Nonprofit Technology Network. Their annual membership is only $85 per year, about like AEA’s, and if you work with nonprofits at all – even …

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