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Hope you’re having a good week! I am Karen Breece, an internal evaluator for Conner Prairie Museum in Fishers, Indiana. Have you ever wondered about developing a theory of change for your organization, or even a department within your organization? I did.

I was working with a department that was starting a lot of new programming. They had a need for a cohesive vision to express with they were wanting to do with the rest of the organization, with each other, and with funders. The beauty of a Theory of Change is that it succinctly connects programming with intended impact, and I felt this was the perfect opportunity to try creating one.

Hi, I’m Jennifer Borland. As the president of the Indiana Evaluation Association (IEA) I’m excited to kick off a week of posts from our members. We know Indiana is likely on the minds of AEA365 blog readers since many will be coming to our state for the AEA Evaluation Conference this year. And while the conference is sure to be amazing, I’m eager to let readers about the great work that IEA does year-round to offer evaluation-related information and resources to members–both in and outside of Indiana.

Greetings from the Center for Research Evaluation (CERE) at Ole Miss. As senior evaluation associates primarily in healthcare (Hope) and education (Moira), we often bounce ideas off of each other and look for new ways to approach evaluation in our respective fields. In this article, we will primarily focus on healthcare with a supporting scenario from education as well.

Greetings from the Gulf Coast Eval Network, and we look forward to welcoming you to New Orleans, Louisiana in just a few short months. You may have previously seen previous posts about topics like the launch of our somewhat new organization, the evaluators without boundaries program, and an entire week of LAWG-developed posts back in June.

Greetings, this is Jason Torres Altman from the TerraLuna Collaborative writing today about turning to publicly available data and propensity score matching to further our evaluative goals in the analysis of Public Value I wrote about in June with two programming partners. In that post, we described how a statewide AmeriCorps program provided tutoring to elementary students and desired to be able to articulate its value to entire communities, beyond just the students and members actively engaged in the program.

Hello! My name is Albion Sumrell, and I work as an Independent Consultant. Specifically, I support schools and educational organizations with monitoring and evaluating their programming. My projects primarily focus on college and career readiness initiatives for youth and adults. I recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of New Orleans. My dissertation research also explored the impact of career readiness initiatives, such as CTE and work experiences, on assisting students in making career choices.

Greetings from the Center for Research Evaluation (CERE) at the University of Mississippi. In our roles as Evaluation Associate (Shannon) and Senior Evaluation Associate (Moira), we regularly work to engage children of various ages in research and evaluation. Using a few things that seem to work well—and many that didn’t—we hope to share some tips to give youth a voice in evaluating programs that involve them and solicit your help in compiling more.

Hello! I’m William Faulkner, Director of Data & Evaluation at Court Watch NOLA, and a member of the Gulf Coast Eval Network (GCEval – we usually call it ‘Gee-See-Eval’). As part of GCEval’s work to infuse the upcoming national conference with hands-on gulf coast experience, we’re announcing the Evaluation Without Boundaries (EWB) program!

Hi everyone! We are Tosha Shanableh, a University of New Orleans (UNO) MPA candidate, Professor Steve Mumford, also from UNO, and Andrew Holbein, Director of Resources and Data at VIA LINK. Our research partnership focuses on assessing community needs by utilizing VIA LINK’s 211 call data and resource database.