“In its own way, evaluation is a process of art.” Crystal Meneses My name is Crystal Meneses, and I am an interdisciplinary artist who engages in arts practices that inspire social change. I speak creativity and my dialects are music, visual arts, and storytelling. I am also neurodivergent, queer, and a woman of color – these …
We are Amani Austin, founder of Austin Advocates With, LLC, and Katie Winters, principal consultant for Insight for Action, LLC. Amani is most proud of her lived experience as a black woman and a first-generation college graduate using the wisdom of her lived experience and cultural wealth to shape her approach to evaluation and facilitation. …
We are Nelda Reyes, of AB Cultural Drivers, and Kim Leonard, Leonard Research & Evaluation (pictured here with Ingrid, one of the Alliance business coaches, during a site visit to her office in early 2024). We have been working in partnership on an evaluation of the Oregon Child Care Alliance, and appreciate this opportunity to …
We are Oregon State University’s STEM Research Center (SRC), a team of dedicated professionals of various disciplinary backgrounds who conduct applied research and evaluation on STEM learning and education, science communication, and STEM engagement (figure 1). Working at the intersection of research, practice, and policy, we focus on equity and social justice and strive to …
I’m Steve Patty with Dialogues In Action. Over the past decade, my team has worked with over 500 organizations, mostly nonprofits, to build their capacity to do credible self-studies of their impact. Helping people do a self-study can be brilliant. It can also be fraught with peril. These are a few lessons learned we’ve learned …
Greetings! We’re Jean-Marie Callan and Becky Seel, members of the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) Research & Learning team who enjoy exploring opportunities to learn among and alongside the projects we fund. In Oregon, Chinook salmon migrate many miles from the Pacific Ocean back to their natal waters in the Columbia River Basin, aided by inherited …
Hi there. I’m Corey Newhouse, Founder and Principal of Public Profit. I had the honor of curating two weeks’ worth of AEA365 blogs from Oregon-based evaluators as part of the lead up to this year’s AEA conference. This week’s posts feature a variety of case studies of Oregon evaluators in action. Our authors share stories …
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Hello from the Ethics Guidance Working Group of the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES). We are excited to tell you about the recently adopted CES Ethics Guidance, a foundational document that advances ethical considerations in evaluation in Canada, and can also serve as a valuable resource for evaluators globally.
Greetings! We are Shelli Golson-Mickens, Nada Mousa, and Jennifer Ottolino, alumni of American University’s Measurement and Evaluation Program, which has a partnership with the Mongolian Evaluation Association (MEA) to collaborate on evaluations, trainings, and other projects.
I am Yana Kusayeva, the Director of Evaluation and Impact at JVS, a Bay Area-based workforce development nonprofit that creates opportunities for equitable economic mobility for all Californians. I’ve been leading our impact evaluation efforts over the past three years. Recently I joined the San Francisco Bay Area Evaluators (SFBAE), where I was already acquainted with several members through previous professional collaborations. Our discussions about innovative impact measurement and stakeholder engagement in change management highlighted how local evaluation communities can help build local measurement, evaluation, and learning (ME&L) capacity at local nonprofit organizations through formal and informal networks. I want to share the success of JVS’s Impact Measurement Committee (IMC), and the valuable lessons learned from our efforts.
