Hello! We are Tom Kelly, Libby Smith, & Karen Jackson and we were all elected to the board last year and began our service in January. Our experiences this year have been beyond what we could have imagined and we can say that the board training that we received has helped us to get up …
Hello! We are Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead, Eric Barela and Jara Dean-Coffey. Our board service began in January 2018, which marked the year that Policy Governance (PG) was fully and formally instituted at AEA (led by Leslie Goodyear). The fact that the work towards adoption began in 2008 and was not completed until two years ago is …
Hi everyone! We are Aimee White and Leslie Goodyear, current and 2018 Presidents of the AEA. We are kicking off the week for the Board sharing about Policy Governance (PG). In 2008, the AEA voted to adopt PG, a governing model that is being widely used across the nonprofit and foundation worlds. Leslie was on …
Policy Governance Week: Our Path to Policy Governance by Aimee White & Leslie Goodyear Read More »
Hello! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Volunteer Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a few tips for getting the conversation going on our favorite blog. Have you ever noticed that each aea365 post has a footer attached that invites you to comment on the post? Go ahead and look for it at the end of …
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Hello fellow evaluators! I am Juliette Mackin from NPC Research in Portland, Oregon, and I have worked as an evaluator for 25 years. I am in this line of work to help people, programs, communities, and systems and am a strong believer in strength-based approaches to programming AND evaluation. One of the most rewarding aspects …
I’m Corey Newhouse, Founder and Principal of Public Profit, a consultancy that helps mission driven organizations use data to make great decisions and improve the quality of their work. I’m also an avowed urbanite, more comfortable muscling my way through rush hour crowds than on an empty forest path. Since Oregon is a predominately rural …
Virtual greetings! Katie Street here, evaluator for Portland State University’s Child Welfare Training Unit Partnership (CWP) in Salem, Oregon. One challenge faced by any training program is: How do we measure acquisition of trainee’s knowledge and skills? Other fields have used various forms of simulated workforce situations to answer this question for years, and recently …
Oregon Evaluators Week: Evaluating Through Simulations by Katie Street Read More »
Hello! We are Dr. Kristi Manseth and Regina Wheeler, Portland-based evaluators working for Pacific Research and Evaluation (PRE). The Oregon Legislature enacted House Bill 3499 (HB 3499) in 2015 to develop and implement a statewide education plan for English Learners (EL) in the K-12 education system. Forty Oregon school districts were identified in Spring …
I’m David Keyes, the founder of R for the Rest of Us. In addition to training folks to use R, I also do consulting work, helping organizations to do complex tasks with R to improve their work. Through doing this work, I’ve become convinced that R has the power to provide immediate feedback to organizations …
Hi there, we are Kimberly Leonard and Kimberlee Salmond. We are pleased to kick off a week of AEA365 posts from Oregon evaluators. We are both Senior Research Officers at Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). The OCF research team plays a variety of roles to support research, evaluation and learning at the foundation, including evaluating our …
