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CEA Affiliate Week: Maximizing Impact: How Evaluation can Help Address the Global Pandemic by Dominica McBride & Jen LoPiccolo

1 Comment / Uncategorized / December 5, 2020

Hello, AEA Community! We are Dr. Dominica McBride and Jen LoPiccolo, MSW from BECOME, a social change agency in Chicago with a mission to nourish communities affected by poverty and injustice to make their vision of a thriving community a reality. Our organizational toolbox includes Culturally Responsive Evaluation and practice, community engagement, strategic planning, facilitation, …

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CEA Affiliate Week: How To Show The Real People Behind The Data by Amelia Kohm

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / December 4, 2020

I am Amelia Kohm, Ph.D.,  the founder of Data Viz for Nonprofits (DVN) in Chicago. DVN helps organizations to effectively and beautifully present their data on websites, reports, slide decks, interactive data dashboards and more. Data visualizations can provide something that photos and case studies—for all of their visceral appeal—cannot. Context. Charts, maps, and graphs …

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CEA Affiliate Week: Opportunities for Evaluation in the Family First Prevention Services Act by Cara Karter & Anne Farrell

1 Comment / Uncategorized / December 4, 2020

Hello! We are Cara Karter and Anne Farrell from Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. We are passionate about generating evidence to drive policy and practice changes that can improve the services and supports available to families.  The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) has significant implications for the evaluation of programs delivered to …

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CEA Affiliate Week: When Multidisciplinary Collaboration Leads to Identifying an Access Protective Factor by Christina Iyengar

1 Comment / Behavioral Health, Uncategorized / December 4, 2020

Hello! I am Dr. Christina Iyengar, from Rush University Medical Center. I am part of an evaluation team that supports a new initiative aimed to reduce health disparity on Chicago’s West Side. The program, Building Early Connections (BEC), seeks to improve systems of care within Rush University Medical Center for the most common social-emotional, behavioral …

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NPF TIG Week: Setting Partnership Expectations Between Nonprofits and Foundations by John Byrnes

1 Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / November 21, 2020

Hi, I’m John Byrnes, Principal at Community Services Analysis, LLC. Application requirements for foundation funding typically are looking for qualitative information on the proposed efforts and results. In many cases, the foundation also requires quantitative information on the nonprofit’s condition and experience to ensure they have sufficient resources available to perform the effort to completion. …

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NPF TIG Week: Achieving unity: Building and using shared measures across funders and non-profits by Allison Meserve, Rochelle Zorzi & Liz Martin

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / November 21, 2020

Hi! We are Allison Meserve (Prosper Canada), Rochelle Zorzi and Liz Martin (Cathexis Consulting). In this post, we highlight the process we used to co-develop shared indicators for six organizations involved in a national project and what we’ve learned along the way. We hope this will be useful for your own funder-non-profit relationships! When Prosper …

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NPF TIG Week: How foundations can prioritize learning-centered reporting by Harry Daley and Carrie Tanasichuk

1 Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / December 2, 2020

Hi there! We are Harry Daley, Director of Community Investment & Learning and Carrie Tanasichuk, Director of Impact Measurement & Evaluation at the Greater Saint John Community Foundation. While we both have worked predominately in the non-profit sector, Harry brings experience as a skilled facilitator and community developer and Carrie brings experience as an evaluator. …

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NPF TIG Week: Skills Evaluators Can Draw Upon to Strengthen Relationships between Funders and Nonprofits by Loraine Park

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / November 21, 2020

Hi! My name is Loraine Park and I am the Learning and Impact Manager at ECMC Foundation, a national funder focused on improving postsecondary outcomes for students from underserved backgrounds. Before joining ECMC Foundation, I worked at an evaluation consulting firm for over a decade. With my perspective as both an internal and external evaluator, …

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NPF TIG Week: Some Suggested Principles to Guide Nonprofits and Foundations to Collaborate Collaborating for Equity and Justice By Susan Wolfe and Ann Price

1 Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / November 21, 2020

We are Susan Wolfe, of Susan Wolfe and Associates and Ann Price of Community Evaluation Solutions. Even before the pandemic, nonprofits and foundations were increasingly exploring ways to more towards more collaborative relations. Since the pandemic, the call for foundations to examine what types of social change initiatives they fund and who they fund is …

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NPF TIG Week: Looking Inside the Black Box: Increasing Transparency between Foundations and Nonprofits by Marcela Gutierrez

1 Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / November 21, 2020

Hello, I am Marcela Gutierrez. As an independent consultant hired by foundations to build evaluation capacity of nonprofits, I know first-hand the efforts they make and the frustrating feeling of not receiving feedback or learning how their contributions inform their funders. I also know busy program officers struggle to perform the competing tasks of grantmaking …

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