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Dabbling in the Data – data games for teams by Corey Newhouse and Stephanie Kong

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 27, 2017

Greetings AEA365 bloggers! Corey Newhouse and Stephanie Kong here from Public Profit – a consulting firm helping mission-driven organizations measure and manage what matters. If you are like us, you often need to facilitate meaning-making sessions with stakeholders from all levels. Programs are being asked to use more and more data, but it can be …

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BH TIG Week: The method is the message: Lessons learned from analyzing substance use, mental health, and emergency department visits via claims data by Shannon Campbell

1 Comment / Behavioral Health / August 19, 2017

Hi! I’m Shannon Campbell, senior research/evaluation analyst for Multnomah County’s Mental Health and Addiction Services Division (MHASD). Beyond its responsibilities as the local mental health authority, MHASD also partners with Health Share of Oregon to co-manage Medicaid behavioral health benefits. Recognizing the links between physical and behavioral health, reducing emergency department (ED) visits, is an …

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Evaluability Assessments – Analysis Tools & Capacity Building Potential by Keira Gipson and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church

3 Comments / Uncategorized / July 8, 2017

Greetings.  We are Keira Gipson, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church, Principal at Besa, a boutique social enterprise that specializes in the evaluation of programming in fragile states.  We wanted to share insights from an evaluability assessment (EA) we conducted as part …

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APC TIG Week: Using Contribution Analysis to Explore Potential Causal Linkages in Advocacy and Policy Change by Robin Kane, Carlisle Levine, Carlyn Orians, and Claire Reinelt

6 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change / May 27, 2017

Hello! We are Robin Kane of RK Evaluation and Strategies, Carlisle Levine of BLE Solutions, LLC, Carlyn Orians of ORS Impact, and Claire Reinelt, independent evaluation consultant. We offer evaluation, applied research and technology services to help organizations increase their effectiveness and contribute to better outcomes. In our advocacy and policy change evaluation work, we …

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APC TIG Week: Using public data to measure outcomes for vulnerable populations: Lessons learned with Heather Krause

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / May 27, 2017

My name is Heather Krause.  As a data scientist for the Ontario Syrian Refugee Resettlement Secretariat, part of my job is to design ways to harness data to measure how successfully refugee resettlement is going, as well as what programs and services are working well and which ones have gaps. Using data to advocate for …

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ICCE TIG Week: Measuring Locally, Evaluate Globally: Establishing Internal Reliability in a Cross-Sectional Analysis by Kate Goddard Rohrbaugh

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / April 2, 2017

I am Kate Goddard Rohrbaugh, an evaluator in the Office of Strategic Information, Research, and Planning at the Peace Corps in Washington, DC. Today I am writing about lessons learned when planning and executing a cross-sectional analysis from studies conducted in multiple countries, and I will provide some cool tricks for writing syntax. Between 2008 …

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Helping your staff ask smarter questions about their data with Paul Collier

1 Comment / Uncategorized / February 20, 2017

Hello AEA365!  I’m Paul Collier. Over the last two years I worked as the Data and Evaluation Manager at the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center (SFCAPC), a mid-size nonprofit focused on ending child abuse in San Francisco. In my time there and as a freelancer, I can’t count the number of times I’ve fielded …

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Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG Week: Quantitative Analysis from a Feminist Perspective by Heather Krause

Leave a Comment / Feminist Issues in Evaluation / February 25, 2017

Hi there, I’m Heather Krause from Datassist. I’ve been working with women and data internationally for over a decade.  I’m delighted to have the opportunity to add my voice and share a bit about the importance of including quantitative data — in addition to qualitative data — in research to incorporate a feminist perspective. Using …

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Internal Eval Week: Making data meaningful to non-data people by Ana Flores and Joshua Paul

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / February 3, 2017

We are Ana Flores and Joshua Paul at Volunteers of America – Los Angeles. At the AEA Evaluation 2016 conference, we presented a panel entitled “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words…But Will They Use It?”. Today, we want to provide additional information regarding how to make data more user-friendly. The Evaluation Department at Volunteers …

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Internal Eval Week: Using Data Placemats to facilitate Learning Conversations in Nonprofit Settings by Laura Beals and Barbara Perry

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / February 3, 2017

Hi! We are Laura Beals, Director, and Barbara Perry, Evaluation Manager, of the Department of Evaluation and Learning at Jewish Family and Children’s Service Boston, a multi-service nonprofit in Massachusetts. At Eval 2015, we learned about “Data Placemats” from Veena Pankaj of the Innovation Network. Recently, we held several placemat-focused “Learning Conversations” with one of …

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