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AZENet Week: Catherine Jahnes on Bringing Funders Together to Talk about Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 13, 2012 May 25, 2012

Hi! I’m Catherine Jahnes, a Phoenix-based evaluator. In Arizona, there can be the sense that the funding community lacks the resources to support evaluation. Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, Valley of the Sun United Way, First Things First, and Arizona Grantmakers Forum (AGF) united to combat this perception by creating an evaluation-focused affinity group comprised …

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AZENet Week: Kori Kanayama on Using Business Model Assessment to Approach Organizational Sustainability

Hello, my name is Kori Kanayama of Kaoru Kanayama Consulting. I’m going to share an approach to assessing a nonprofit organization’s profitability and mission impact as a springboard to organizational sustainability. I presented this assessment methodology at the Spring AZENet conference. This methodology can be done by nonprofit leaders, and by internal or external evaluators. …

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AZENet Week: Sarah Griffiths on The Sustainability Formula

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 11, 2012 May 25, 2012

I’m Sarah Griffiths, Senior Partner, Wholonomy Consulting, in Tucson, AZ. I’m going to share some highlights of the recent AZENet conference which focused on Building Capacity for Organizational Effectiveness. The learning goals for participants were to: Understand what research shows about organizational effectiveness in three key areas: Adaptive Capacity, Leadership, and Management Practices. Explore the …

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Kelly Hannum on Leadership Development for Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / May 28, 2012 April 23, 2012

I’m Kelly Hannum. I’ve been evaluating leadership development programs for almost two decades. I am convinced that effective leaders and effective evaluators have similar mindsets and employ similar skills. I encourage leaders to think like evaluators, and via this post I’m encouraging evaluators to think and develop themselves as leaders. At the Center for Creative …

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Aimee White on Engaging Stakeholders More Effectively

2 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / May 24, 2012 April 23, 2012

Hi, I’m Aimee White and I am a Strategic Learning and Evaluation Consultant at FSG in the Seattle office and I have been a practicing evaluator for nearly 10 years. Lessons learned – In my world, evaluation is only good if it is informative for the client and produces actionable learning. This means having a …

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Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley on Evaluative Thinking: The ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ of Evaluation Capacity Building and Evaluation Practice

8 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Uncategorized / April 29, 2012 March 24, 2012

Hi, we are Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley with the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation. Among other initiatives, we work in partnership with non-formal educators to build evaluation capacity. We have been exploring the idea of evaluative thinking, which we believe is an essential, yet elusive, ingredient in evaluation capacity building (ECB). Below, we …

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EPE Week: Yvonne Watson on Mission Possible: Evaluation Capacity Building at EPA

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Evaluation Managers and Supervisors, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 15, 2012 April 15, 2012

Hi everyone! I’m Yvonne M. Watson, a Program Analyst in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Evaluation Support Division (ESD). As chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group, I invite you to learn more about evaluation and environmental issues this week. Evaluation units across the federal government vary in …

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Sarah Gill on the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association Spring Social 2012

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Independent Consulting, Internal Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 4, 2012 March 9, 2012

I’m Sarah Gill, membership chair for the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA). Recently AaEA hosted a spring social. The event was inspired by the recent AEA 365 posts making predictions for the future of evaluation. Maureen Wilce, AaEA’s chair for professional development, and I thought the posts would inspire great conversation among our fellow evaluators – …

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Bloggers Series: Michelle Baron on EvaluationBaron

1 Comment / Independent Consulting, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / March 22, 2012 March 2, 2012

Hello, I’m Michelle Baron, an Independent Evaluation Strategist. I blog as EvaluationBaron – a play on my last name. Rad Resource – EvaluationBaron: I blog at least weekly about all things evaluation, from commenting on a recent event I attended or article I read, to delving into the inner details of an evaluation concept. I …

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Asil Ozdogru on Evaluation Capacity Building through Local Partnerships

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Teaching of Evaluation / February 2, 2012 April 3, 2012

Hello. I am Asil Ozdogru, an evaluation specialist with the Early Care & Learning Council in Albany, NY. In the realm of nonprofits and smaller-size organizations, capacity to conduct quality evaluations can be enriched through partnerships with local and regional entities. Establishing or enhancing relationships with key individuals and organizations plays an essential role in …

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