I caught up with Laurie Stevehn after her full-day workshop: Strategies for Interactive Evaluation, which she presented with Jean King to an engaged and eager group of evaluators who came from a diverse background of cultures and work settings. Why did you choose this topic for Evaluation 2016? Laurie has spent 20-25 years working in …
Hi my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA. Evaluation 2016 officially starts tomorrow. Are you ready to learn and network with more than 3,000 evaluators? Here are some tips to help you be social at Evaluation 2016. Hot Tip: Download the Mobile App The new and improved Evaluation 2016 …
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Hello, I’m Samantha Grant, and I serve as the Evaluation Director at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Youth Development. Like many evaluators, I am eagerly anticipating the start of the Evaluation 2016 Conference. In Minnesota the seasons are changing and we are pulling out our hats and mittens, so the thought of being in …
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Hello All! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with some tips for navigation Evaluation 2016! Cool Trick: If you want all of these tips described in detail, log into the AEA website (if you are a member), click on Coffee Break Webinars (under the “Learn” menu), then click the Coffee …
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Hi. I’m Chari Smith with CRSmith Consulting. I work with nonprofits in the Portland, Oregon area. I’ve been learning more and more about the importance of assessing the culture of evaluation within an organization before stepping into creating a design, data collection tools, etc. Hot Tip: Before doing any evaluation work, do a brief survey …
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Greetings! We’re Clara Hagens, Kelly Scott and Guy Sharrock, Advisors in the MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) team with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Baltimore. We’d like to offer another perspective on Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB), namely, creating and institutionally embedding a suite of MEAL Policies and Procedures (MPP) that ensures a systematic and …
I’m Maya Pilgrim, the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault’s Evaluation Manager. My work has focused on the primary prevention of sexual violence – addressing the root causes to prevent sexual violence from happening in the first place. It means addressing systemic attitudes and inequities that while often similar, can look different according to context, a …
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We are Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, Veena Pankaj, and Deborah Grodzicki of Innovation Network, a consulting firm that specializes in helping nonprofit and philanthropic organizations collect data, learn, and make informed decisions. In 2010 we founded the State of Evaluation Project, an ongoing research effort to document the status and changes of evaluation capacity and …
Happy October everyone! I’m Liz Zadnik, aea365’s Outreach Coordinator, and I’d like to share something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. In addition to being an evaluation enthusiast, I’m also a mindfulness enthusiast and believe practicing presence and/or meditation can infinitely improve our lives (both professional and personal). Lesson Learned: This story, about the …
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Hi there! My name is Bemene Piaro. I am an epidemiologist, a longtime resident of the Greater Atlanta area, and peace and social justice activist. Atlanta is known for promoting change through social justice. Rad Resource: Social Justice Opportunities. Whenever Georgia has an execution scheduled, one can elect to protest the death penalty at the …
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