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PE Standards Week: (Re)Introducing the JCSEE Program Evaluation Standards by Brad Watts

1 Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / February 2, 2020 February 4, 2020

Hello! My name is Brad Watts, Assistant Director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan. In addition to my duties as a professional evaluator, I am also currently serving as Chair of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE), the organization responsible for developing, reviewing, and approving evaluation standards in North America, including …

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Diffusing the Drama: How the Karpman Triangle Can Help Us Move Past Conflict with Evaluation Stakeholders by Yael Gil’Adi and Elizabeth DiLuzio

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 1, 2020 January 30, 2020

Whether it’s intended or not, our role as evaluator can trigger a power dynamic between us and other stakeholders. At its worst, this dynamic can cause feelings of frustration, resentment, and helplessness for those involved. We’re Yael Gil’Adi and Elizabeth DiLuzio from Good Shepherd Services, and we’ve been there. Today, we’ve teamed up to share a tool we find helpful for understanding and shifting this dynamic. The Karpman Triangle, more commonly known as the Drama Triangle, is a social model that offers …

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Conceptualizing community engagement by Carolyn Fisher

1 Comment / Uncategorized / January 31, 2020 January 20, 2020

Hi everyone! I’m Carolyn Fisher of the Institute for Community Health, and I’m here to share with you a few thoughts I recently put together for a client about measuring community engagement. This client (nameless because I don’t have their permission to share) has a project for which “community engagement” is an important component. They …

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Listening — It’s More Than Hearing by Deven Wisner

2 Comments / Uncategorized / January 30, 2020 January 20, 2020

Hello! My name is Deven Wisner (@devenwisner). Like many of us, I wear a couple hats, including: Managing Partner of Viable Insights, educator and Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona, and President-Elect of the Arizona Evaluation Network. Over the past year, I’ve come to realize that as evaluators we need to make space for …

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How to plan and execute an authentic convening between a funder and its grantees? by Joel Gutierrez, Houa Lee and Nate Madden

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 29, 2020 January 25, 2020

Greetings! We are Joel Gutierrez and Houa Lee of ORS Impact, and Nate Madden of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (EMKF), the evaluation and learning team for the EMKF’s 2019 Inclusion Open grant portfolio that seeks to support programs that remove barriers to entrepreneurial success for communities systemically left behind. Recently, we were invited to …

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Using logic modeling to build understanding between foundations, grantees, and evaluators by Ranjani Paradise

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / January 28, 2020 January 25, 2020

My name is Ranjani Paradise, and I am the Assistant Director of Evaluation at the Institute for Community Health (ICH), a nonprofit consulting organization in Massachusetts. In recent years, ICH has worked with several foundations to design and carry out external evaluations for multi-site grant-making initiatives. With some of the initiatives we have evaluated, the …

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Perspectives on Building Interaction and Understanding between Nonprofits and Foundations by Ann Price, Susan Wolfe and Jenn Ballentine

1 Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / January 27, 2020 January 25, 2020

Hi everyone. We are Ann Price (Community Evaluation Solutions), Susan Wolfe (Susan Wolfe and Associates) and Jenn Ballentine (Highland Nonprofit Consulting). We are independent evaluators and sometimes collaborate in our work with foundations and nonprofits. In this blog we want to discuss the natural and complex tension between nonprofits and funders. There is an inherent …

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Using the chaordic stepping stones to advance inclusion and creativity in a partnership by Miranda Yates, Nancy Eagan, Elise Cappella, Sophia Hwang, and Michael Kieffer

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / January 26, 2020 January 8, 2020

Hello from Miranda Yates and Nancy Eagan from Good Shepherd Services (GSS) and Elise Cappella, Sophia Hwang, and Michael Kieffer from the Institute of Human Development and Social Change at New York University (NYU). We are members of a research-practice partnership (RPP) called ACROSS (Advancing Collaborative Research in Out of School Settings). We would like …

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The 2020 call for blog posts by Sheila B. Robinson

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 25, 2020 January 25, 2020

Greetings aea365 readers AND authors! I’m Sheila B Robinson, Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Just last week, I wrote this post asking what you would like to read on aea365 in 2020. Thanks to those who offered these ideas! Now, I’m writing to ask YOU to consider contributing on one of these, or any other evaluation-related topics. …

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