Call me Daniel. “Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world”. (Herman Melville, 1851) Rad Resource – Comprehensive Evaluation. A site where to find various …
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I’m Carrie Tanasichuk, a relatively new evaluation blogger. I currently work in the Program Research & Development department at the YMCA of Greater Toronto, where we support the Association to assess impact and improve programming across the YMCA as well as in the larger community. Rad Resource – CarrieTanasichuk.com: Broadly speaking, my blog is about …
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Hello! My name is Amanda Babine and I am the Director of Evaluate for Change, a program evaluation company that provides training exclusively to nonprofits dedicated to measuring their impact, and a researcher at Columbia University in the City of New York. Rad Resources – Evaluate for Change’s Data-Driven Nonprofit Blog The company started inviting …
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I’m Wendy Tackett, the president of iEval, a part-time faculty member at Western Michigan University, and a new blogger in 2014. Rad Resource – Carpe Diem: Make Your Evaluations Useful! Three of my iEval colleagues and I started this weekly blog last June primarily to help evaluators make their evaluations more useful. Hot Tips – …
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Greetings loyal aea365 readers AND authors! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this post asking readers what they would like to read about on aea365 in 2015. Many thanks to those who offered their comments with ideas for posts and responses to each …
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My name is Petra-Chambers-Sinclair and I’m a devout evaluation nerd and Biohacker from Victoria, British Columbia. Fellow evaluators understand when I explain that, as a Biohacker, I apply evaluative thinking to my personal life with the goal of maximizing my well-being. I run nutritional and lifestyle experiments, and then use data to fine-tune the strategies I use to achieve my goals. …
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I’m Aimee White, new Board Member At Large. Thank you all who elected me, I will strive to represent you well. I live in Washington State but have roots from the southeastern part of the US. I own and serve as Principal Evaluator for Custom Evaluation Services, an independent evaluation consulting firm specializing in Collaborative, …
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Hi, we’re Anne Cullen Puente and April Bender, evaluators at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan. We were really excited by Michael Quinn Patton’s June 2014 article in the American Journal of Evaluation where he encouraged evaluators to develop our self-reflexivity and deeply consider our own thinking patterns. We couldn’t agree more, and believe that mindful evaluation could be helpful for doing just that. Mindfulness can be thought of as a theoretical construct, …
Hello, my name is Jayne Corso and I am the community manager for American Evaluation Association. From my past posts, you can see that I love social media. I see these platforms as never-ending conferences, where you can meet and share ideas with people with similar interests. Although I have a tendency to favor social …
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Hello Loyal aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with one question for you: What is it that YOU would like to read about on this blog? Lesson Learned: AEA365 has been going steadily since January 1, 2010 with 1800+ contributions from hundreds of evaluators across the globe. We accept individual …
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