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Reality TV Lessons Week: What Survivor Can Teach Us About Evaluation by Jen van Stelle

7 Comments / Uncategorized / March 26, 2021

Hi, I’m Jen van Stelle, Co-Founder & Principal of Actionable Insights, LLC. As program evaluators, my business partner, Melanie Espino, and I help nonprofits and government agencies discover and act on data-driven insights. I was a fan of Survivor, arguably the first successful reality show in the U.S., from about 2003 to 2011. For those …

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Reality TV Lessons Week: Crucial Lessons for Evaluators! by Betsy Block

7 Comments / Uncategorized / March 26, 2021

Hi, I’m Betsy Block (B3 Consults). I’m a coach, facilitator and capacity builder for organizations navigating pivotal strategic questions with authenticity and clarity.  This week, we are focusing on some important lessons from a somewhat unlikely venue. Can you keep a secret?  I confess that I am a little bit of a fan of reality …

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SIM TIG Week: Putting Stakeholder Voice at the Heart of Social Impact Measurement by Ben Fowler

1 Comment / Social Impact Measurement / March 11, 2021

Hi, I am Ben Fowler, a Co-Founder of MarketShare Associates, a global social impact consulting company. We focus on measuring the social impacts created by companies, investors, foundations and bilateral and multilateral funders. Social impact measurement (SIM) is a quickly evolving space. Significant effort to date in measuring SIM has been on quantifying and benchmarking …

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SIM TIG Week: Tips for Examining and Addressing Inequity by Heather Esper

2 Comments / Social Impact Measurement / March 11, 2021

Hi – I’m Heather Esper of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan. One of the most critical moments in my time with AEA came during a plenary at the 2017 annual conference focused on Dialogue on Race and Class in America. I find myself going back to my notes from this session …

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SIM TIG Week: What is it Like Measuring the Social Impact of… Ourselves? by Leah Goldstein Moses

2 Comments / Social Impact Measurement / March 11, 2021

Hi everyone! I’m Leah, founder & CEO of The Improve Group. Today I’m writing about the messy middle ground that I sometimes get to play in – the space where I’m both the evaluated and the evaluator. Let me start with a little context. The Improve Group is a mission-focused evaluation consultancy. In Minnesota, where …

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SIM TIG Week: The SDG Impact Standards by Belissa Rojas

1 Comment / Social Impact Measurement / March 11, 2021

Hello! I’m Belissa Rojas and I am the founder and CEO of Impacto Consulting, an advisory firm that provides enterprises, investors, governments and international organizations with knowledge, innovative solutions, and evaluation tools to foster sustainability and positive social and environmental impact. I am currently working with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Impact team (UN …

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SIM TIG Week: Corporate Monitoring & Evaluation: Setting Up a CoP to Tackle Challenges of an Emerging Practice by Sasha Zoueva

2 Comments / Social Impact Measurement / March 14, 2021

Hi! I am Sasha Zoueva, Senior Evaluation Manager, Johnson & Johnson. As part of our Global Community Impact team, I am responsible for evaluation of hundreds of grants, several impact investments and employee engagement projects, plus our product donations and disaster response initiatives. Evaluation is often intellectually exciting and challenging. In a corporate environment, we …

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SIM TIG Week: Evaluation and Gender Lens Investing by Courtney Bolinson and Lucy Wakiaga

1 Comment / Social Impact Measurement / March 10, 2021

Hello! We’re Courtney Bolinson (Wisconsin) and Lucy Wakiaga (Nairobi), and we’re excited to kick off the Social Impact Measurement (SIM) TIG blog week. This week you’ll see blogs on topics related to impact investing, social finance, the sustainable development goals, social enterprises and more. Today, we’ll talk about gender lens investing (GLI), share the highlights …

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white antiracism & racial healing: the journey is long by Matteah Spencer Reppart

2 Comments / Uncategorized / March 13, 2021

I am Matteah Spencer Reppart, visionary leader and principal consultant with Proponents LLC.  Connected to my evaluation practice, I engage in work related to values orientations, systems and structures, and creating conditions for greater insight and awareness. As a white person embarking on the never-ending journey of unraveling myself from white-supremacy, I recognize five pivotal …

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white antiracism & racial healing: picking up the mic: using my white privilege to elevate voices of people of color by Martha Brown

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 13, 2021

I am Martha Brown, president of RJAE Consulting. I participated in the White Fragility book club last year to change, heal, and learn new ways of being and working. I’ve been working on projects that involve qualitative data analysis of open-ended survey questions. I recalled what Donna Mertens taught me – that evaluation should transform …

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