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OPEN Week: Adrienne Zell on Evaluation for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 4, 2013 June 4, 2013

My name is Adrienne Zell and I work as an internal evaluator for the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, an organization that provides services to biomedical researchers at Oregon Health and Science University. I also volunteer as the executive director of a small nonprofit, Impactivism, which provides evaluation advice to community organizations. I have …

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OPEN Week: Erin Stack & Lindsey Patterson on Successfully Transitioning from Student to Professional

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 3, 2013 June 3, 2013

Hi. We are Erin Stack and Lindsey Patterson. Erin is a Community Psychology doctoral student at Portland State University (PSU) and the current student liaison for the Oregon Program Evaluation Network (OPEN). Lindsey is a former OPEN student liaison and a soon-to-be graduate of the PSU Community Psychology program. Lindsey currently works at the Center …

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OPEN Week: Kim Firth Leonard on Local Affiliates as Learning Communities

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 2, 2013 June 2, 2013

My name is Kim Firth Leonard, and I have the honor of authoring the first post on the aea365 blog for Oregon Program Evaluators Network (OPEN) week. I have been an AEA member since 2008, and am currently President of OPEN, a local affiliate of AEA founded in 1997. I work as Assessment Research Coordinator …

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Clara Hagens on Guidance on Monitoring and Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 19, 2013 May 19, 2013

I’m Clara Hagens. I work for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) as the Regional Technical Advisor for Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning in Asia. I’d like to share with you a guidance document we have developed to support project teams to operationalize monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plans, big and small, in various contexts. Rad Resource: CRS’ …

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Susan Kistler on Changes Afoot at the American Evaluation Association

4 Comments / Uncategorized / May 18, 2013 May 18, 2013

Changes are afoot! My name is Susan Kistler and I am just about to become the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director emeritus. I’ve written before about my stepping down and my last official day in this position is this coming Monday, May 20. I’ll continue to write for aea365, and will be working on the …

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AKEN Week: Corrie Whitmore Introducing the Alaska Evaluation Network

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 12, 2013 May 12, 2013

I’m Corrie Whitmore, president of the Alaska Evaluation Network (AKEN) and an internal evaluator working for Southcentral Foundation (SCF). SCF is an Alaska Native owned and operated health care organization serving approximately 60,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, and 60 rural villages in the Anchorage Service Unit. SCF …

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Sheila B. Robinson on Being an AEA365 Sponsored Weeks Archaeologist!

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 4, 2013 June 20, 2014

Hello! Sheila B. Robinson here, guest posting for Susan Kistler, our regular Saturday contributor. I work in PK12 education at Greece Central School District, and in higher education at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education. As aea365’s current Lead Volunteer Curator, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of groups – …

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Susan Kistler on Thanking AEA’s Volunteers

1 Comment / Uncategorized / April 27, 2013 April 27, 2013

My name is Susan Kistler and for a few more weeks, I am honored to serve as the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. This week’s post is a little different, and a little shorter, than my usual Saturday contribution. National Volunteer Appreciation week ends today. We’ve been giving shout outs to just a few of …

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Susan Kistler on an eCommunications and eCommunities TIG and Resources

4 Comments / Uncategorized / April 20, 2013 April 20, 2013

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. We’re talking eCommunications and eCommunities this week. Get Involved – Work on eTIG Planning: I am considering starting an AEA TIG on Evaluation of eCommunications and eCommunities (the name may need a bit of tweaking). We’d focus on issues involved …

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Sheila Matano and Dani O’Neill on Alternative Methods for Qualitative Data Collection: Community Survey Day

1 Comment / Qualitative Methods, Uncategorized / April 19, 2013 April 19, 2013

Hello, we are Sheila Matano and Dani O’Neill from Carson Research Consulting (CRC). We at CRC are currently in the process of conducting a survey on relocation and housing stability. Although surveys are an incredibly useful method for gathering quantitative information from large populations, response rates vary widely. In order to promote our project, interact …

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