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Liz Zadnik on Evaluation at the 2015 National Sexual Assault Conference

Hello all! Liz Zadnik here with another Saturday post to start the weekend off right! I’ll be bringing you a rundown on some of the evaluation-minded workshops from this year’s National Sexual Assault Conference (NSAC). The conference was in Los Angeles, CA and was hosted by the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA). Rad Resource: …

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WE Week: Alisher Nazirov and Tatiana Tretiakova on a Study Tour to the Washington Evaluators

Hello dear colleagues, We’re Alisher Nazirov and Tatiana Tretiakova, representatives of national evaluation communities of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and we would like to share our impressions from one of the most memorable exchange of experience and practices – a study tour to the Washington Evaluators. The tour was supported by the American Evaluation Association, while …

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WE Week: Donna M. Mertens on Peer-to-Peer Support Program Experience in Kyrgyzstan

My name is Donna M. Mertens; I am an Independent Consultant based in Washington, D.C. and a founding member of the Washington Evaluators (WE), an AEA local affiliate. I had the pleasure of working with the Washington Evaluators’ leadership team on two grants funded to improve evaluation in Kyrgyzstan and to increase understanding of evaluation …

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WE Week: Rodney Hopson and Sonya Horsford on “But can you do it” questions of evaluator credibility and organizational capacity: The nuances of evaluator credibility

Greetings evaluation colleagues! We are Rodney Hopson and Sonya Horsford, and we recently started H&H Strategies, Ltd., a DC-based consulting group providing strategic planning and evaluation solutions to organizations committed to improving program and service delivery in the nonprofit, for profit, government, university, education, and social service sectors. In addition to serving as principals of …

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WE Week: Stephanie Shipman and Valerie Caracelli on Building Evaluation Capacity in a Budget-Constrained Environment

We are Stephanie Shipman and Valerie Caracelli, working in the Center for Evaluation Methods and Issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Our Center’s mission is to further evaluation at GAO and in the federal government by studying agency evaluation activities and policies and sharing knowledge and resources. Last November GAO reported the results of …

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Sheila B Robinson on Evaluation…Better Evaluation!

Hello All! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. I’m a collector and connector. I love shopping the internet and collecting resources for evaluation, and I love connecting people to resources. I’m not alone in this endeavor, as many others are doing similar work with their websites as well. Today, I …

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Sheila B Robinson on Creative Commons Licensing and Why YOU Need to Understand It

Hello aea365-ers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Have you ever visited the AEA Public eLibrary and seen this when you click on a resource? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. We certainly hope so! Our eLibrary features a wealth of evaluation resources. Are you familiar with …

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Jayne Corso Helps You Prepare for Evaluation 2015 with Social Media

Hi my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA.  Evaluation 2015 planning is well underway and, as always, social media will play a big part before, during, and after the conference. Social media is a great way to interact with other evaluators and gain the most up-to-date information on Evaluation …

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Theresa McGauley-Keaney on Dialogue Education, Parts 1 & 2

Curator note: Today we feature a special 2-part post. Please scroll down to read both parts. Enjoy!   Theresa McGauley-Keaney on Dialogue Education, Part 1: A ‘Lean’ Way to Teach and Learn Hello, I am Theresa McGauley-Keaney, a Program Monitor and Trainer (PMT) at Commonwealth Medicine, a division of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. With …

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Rebecca Stewart and Samantha Hagel on Committing to Creating an Inclusive and Accountable Evaluation Organization

We are Rebecca Stewart, Chief Practice Officer, and Samantha Hagel, Chief Administrative Officer, both with The Improve Group, a firm based in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a mission to help mission-driven organizations make the most of information, navigate complexity, and ensure their investments of time and money lead to meaningful, sustained impact. This year, we …

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