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Internal Eval TIG Week: Recipe for Success: Reflections of an Internal Evaluator 43 Years Later by Stanley Capela

My name is Stanley Capela. I am an applied sociologist who currently is the Vice President for Quality Management and Corporate Compliance Officer for HeartShare Human Services of New York. I am also a Commissioner, Team Leader and Peer Reviewer for the Council on Accreditation. I have been an internal evaluator for the past 43 …

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Use Community-Engaged Research to Create Change From Bottom Up by Sylvia Pu

Hello! My name is Sylvia Pu. I am a researcher and strategist, and I help mission-driven organizations assess the big-picture impact of their work and focus more on their high-impact activities. I am the principal consultant of Sylvia Pu Consulting. Today, I will introduce you to the unique research design of community-engaged research (CEnR) and …

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Lessons Learned from Day-to-Day, Real-Life Evaluation for Small- and Medium-Sized Nonprofits by Maryfrances Porter

I’m Maryfrances Porter, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of Partnerships for Strategic Impact, and one of the ImpactStory coaches. We have spent the last 15+ years coaching, training, and supporting small- to medium-sized nonprofits in telling masterful impact stories. The nonprofits we work with are big enough to care about data, but not big enough to …

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Transformative Leadership Fellowships Need Transformative Evaluation Approaches by Barbara Klugman

Hi, my name is Barbara Klugman. I offer strategy and evaluation support and facilitate a number of peer learning initiatives in support of network, funder and NGO social justice efforts. From 2017-2019, I was the developmental evaluator for the ‘incubation’ of Tekano: Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity and in 2020 I both facilitated a peer …

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Taking Time for Intentional Questions in Your Practice by Jenna Sethi

Hi! My name is Jenna Sethi (she/her), Founder & Principal Consultant of Informed Change. I am an applied qualitative researcher and evaluator helping (mostly) youth-serving organizations to achieve their goals by centering stories as data for change. I am also a community faculty member in the Youth Studies program in the School of Social Work …

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Using the CIPP Evaluation Model’s 26 Checklists to Plan and Guide Evaluations by Guili Zhang

Greetings everyone! I’m Guili Zhang, Department Chair and Professor of Research & Evaluation Methodology at East Carolina University. I am also honored to be Co-Author (with Daniel Stufflebeam) of the CIPP Evaluation Model book, Board of Directors member of the American Evaluation Association,   Advisory Board member of the American Journal of Evaluation (AJE). Over …

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Systemic Design Thinking for Evaluation of Social Innovations: a PD for Intermediate and Advanced Evaluators by Jan Noga

Hi! My name is Jan Noga and I am the owner of Pathfinder Evaluation and Consulting in Cincinnati, Ohio. Like many of you, I’m always on the lookout for good PD opportunities. Yet, as an advanced evaluator, I struggle to find PDs that are designed for my level of practice. Well, I’m here to share …

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The Many Purposes of Evaluability Assessment by Mike Trevisan and Tamara Walser

Hello, we are Mike Trevisan and Tamara Walser. Mike is a Dean and Professor at Washington State University and Tamara is a Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. We are excited to provide a workshop on evaluability assessment (EA) as part of the upcoming AEA Eval2021 conference. We have written an aea365blog post …

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Staying Connected Beyond #Eval21 by Elizabeth Grim

Hi all! This is Elizabeth Grim, volunteer curator of AEA365 and Founder/Principal Consultant of Elizabeth Grim Consulting, LLC. It’s hard to believe that today is the final day of #Eval21, AEA at 35: Meeting the Moment. It has been a fantastic week of celebrating the history of AEA. I hope those who attended the conference …

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