We are Caitlin Ruffenach, Researcher, and Kim Leonard, Senior Evaluation Officer, from The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). Among other things, we are working on an evaluation of the Studio to School Initiative at OCF, which focuses on the development of sustainable arts education programs through partnerships between arts organizations and schools. This past summer, in …
I’m Chris Weiss, president of the New York City chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (NYAAPOR). Our organization brings together a wide variety of evaluators and other research professionals who are engaged in the methods, applications, analysis and findings from public opinion research. We host a slate of programmatic workshops and panel …
An MBA, three nurses and a doctor at UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) – Office of Health Care Innovation and Quality are back again. In the evaluation world, we often use QI methods to improve the processes by which we conduct our work, such as improving systems for file management, which we discuss …
Hi my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA. Are you getting the most out of LinkedIn? A complete and active profile allows you to connect with more professionals and expand your network. Try these tips to increase your engagement on LinkedIn. Hot Tip: Always have a recent (and professional) …
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Greetings evaluation enthusiasts! We are Katherine Haugh, Smriti Bajracharya and Kat Athanasiades from Innovation Network. We have found timelines to be an incredibly useful tool, and believe they are underutilized in the evaluation world. We’d like to change that! For the past few years, we have incorporated timelines into our data analysis process, integrated visual …
Hello, we’re Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann from the Museum of Science, Boston and Marjorie Bequette from the Science Museum of Minnesota, two of the co-PIs for the study Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET). As a part of CASNET, we’ve coordinated meetings, document sharing, and data analysis across team members located at …
We’re Sarah Brewer, Elise Garvey, Ted Kniker and Krystal Tomlin the current leadership of AEA’s Government Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG). To finish out Government Evaluation Week on AEA365, we decided to offer a glimpse into the future of Government Evaluation. Since 2015 was the 25th anniversary of the Government Evaluation TIG, we wanted to …
I’m Leah Goldstein Moses, Founder and CEO of The Improve Group and adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. At the beginning of 2015, four issues converged towards a specific direction that has informed our work over the year: Our recently-formed Advisory Board highlighted the importance of equity, disparities, and …
I am Lycia Lima, the executive coordinator of the newest CLEAR center- for Brazil and Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) Africa. We’re formally joining CLEAR later this year and are planning our inauguration in October 2015. I was also one of the organizers involved in the formation of the Brazilian M&E Network – Rede Brasileira de Monitoramento e …
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I’m Maurya West Meiers, Senior Evaluation Officer at the World Bank and coauthor of A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results. I often work with groups in carrying out needs assessments, collecting data, training, facilitating retreats, etc. So I’m always looking for facilitation tips and resources. Today I’m …
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