Hi, we are Charlotte Newman and Lauren Reef. We are co-chairs of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA) pro bono committee. AaEA provides free evaluation consulting to local nonprofits through a three-month Evaluation Support Program (ESP). The ESP was created to increase evaluation awareness and capacity across the community by: 1) enabling new and experienced evaluators …
Hi there! I’m Amanda Woomer, a M&E professional and environmental conservation and peacebuilding enthusiast. I am also the co-chair of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association’s M&E Interest Group. Over the last few years, I have worked with organizations like the Center for Conservation Peacebuilding and Conservation International to understand how M&E can support their respective work …
AaEA Week: Using M&E for Conservation and Peacebuilding by Amanda Woomer Read More »
Hello! We are Olivia Halls, Shanice Bennerson, and Shanesha Brooks-Tatum representing Creative Research Solutions, an evaluation firm in metro Atlanta, and the Atlanta-Area Evaluation Association. Reflecting upon our projects related to secondary and post-secondary education, a common thread is apparent: approaching evaluations holistically plays a critical role in supporting academic success for marginalized groups. Various …
Hi, this is Scott Klisures, Colin Regan of Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Gizelle Gopez also with Deloitte, and President-Elect of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association. We are here to share tips on how to customer relationship management (CRM) platforms in performance measurement can increase the utility of your data for program improvement and enhancement. As technology …
Hi! We’re Omoshalewa Bamkole and Caitlin McColloc, Evaluation Fellows in the Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development (DSEPD) in the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Previously we shared how DSEPD used data parties to encourage participation in evaluation. In this post, we dive into …
This is Sarah Boyd, CEO of META Studios and President of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA). AaEA is excited to sponsor this week’s AEA365 blogs and shine a spotlight on evaluation trends and best practices from the fields of education, technology, non-profit support, peacebuilding, and public health. Atlanta is home to a variety of large …
AaEA Week: Atlanta-area Evaluation Association Week by Sarah Boyd Read More »
Happy New Year! I’m Sheila B Robinson, AEA365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. To some it’s just another date on the calendar; others see January 1, 2020 as a starting (or ending) point for something important, hailing it as the perfect time for new beginnings. 1.) Wikipedia’s interesting facts about 2020 lists of worldwide …
Happy New Year! 20 reasons to be excited about 2020 by Sheila B Robinson Read More »
Kia ora koutou katoa, I’m Julian King, a public policy consultant from Aotearoa New Zealand. Recently I’ve been working with Africa’s network of Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) organizations, to provide evaluation capacity building for a new approach to evaluate value for money (VFM). This approach to VFM is built on a foundation of evaluative reasoning, …
Empowerment evaluation and value for money by Julian King Read More »
My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I’m an independent evaluator with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation and author of three books about evaluation and program planning: A Short Primer on Innovative Evaluation Reporting, Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned, and Survive and Thrive: Three Steps to Securing Your Program’s Sustainability. Every year …
My Favourite Competencies by Kylie Hutchinson Read More »
Hi, my name is Diego Menchaca. I’m the founder of Teamscope, a data collection app for field and clinical research. Lessons Learned: An M&E professional’s worst nightmare is to realize after data collection, that data is plagued with errors and cannot be used. This realization often comes at a point where teams have returned from …
Collecting cleaner data with query management by Diego Menchaca Read More »
