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Show us your 2020 Vision! Let’s Rock the 2019 AEA Vote! by Sheila B Robinson

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 30, 2019

Hello AEA members! Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with an important message about the AEA elections. The  ballot is now open for our 2020 President-elect and Members-at-Large of AEA’s Board of Directors. Unfortunately, AEA member voting has been historically low. Let’s do better this year! Hot Tip: Don’t recognize some of the names? …

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IC TIG Week: How does white fragility impact our evaluations? By Rita Fierro

1 Comment / Independent Consulting / June 30, 2019

For the past two years, the Independent Consulting TIG has had a book club, designed to help evaluation professionals get out of our silos. I am grateful to Michelle Molina for saying yes to adding White Fragility as an option. I’m Rita Fierro, founder of Fierro Consulting, LLC and I co-facilitated the sessions with Michelle. …

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IC TIG Week: Building Collaborative Communities for Systemic Change and Improvement by Tamara Hamai

2 Comments / Independent Consulting / June 30, 2019

My name is Tamara Hamai, and I am President of Hamai Consulting, an evaluation firm focused on improving child well-being from cradle through career.  Some of our current and past projects are with Collective Impact initiatives and countywide networks of organizations collaborating to create systems-level improvements to better support children and families. We are facilitators …

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IC TIG Week: Making Connections and Building Community as an Independent Consultant by Cate Samuelson

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / June 29, 2019

Hello, my name is Cate Samuelson. I currently work as both an independent consultant and an internal evaluator. I began working as an independent consultant in 2007, and two years ago, I started Collaborative Solutions, an equity-focused research and evaluation consulting business. Being an independent consultant does not mean you have to work alone. I’ve …

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IC TIG Week: Testing the Waters through Part-time Consulting by Rocele Estanislao

1 Comment / Independent Consulting / June 29, 2019

Greetings from Los Angeles! My name is Rocele Estanislao and I have worked in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for over 15 years in program evaluation and data management. I have thought of becoming an independent consultant; however, for various reasons haven’t taken the final leap. During the last three years, I started thinking about …

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IC TIG Week: Great (Master)minds Think Alike by Nina Sabarre

2 Comments / Independent Consulting / June 29, 2019

Hi, there! My name is Nina Sabarre and I am the Founder and Principal of Intention 2 Impact, LLC. Today’s post is about the importance of peer mentoring to advance evaluation business ventures, and a new mastermind initiative through the Independent Consulting TIG (IC TIG)! I am currently pursuing my PhD in Evaluation and Applied …

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IC TIG Week: Boundless Teams; Endless Possibilities by Maria Viteri Vela and Robert Perez

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / June 29, 2019

Hello good people. We are Maria Viteri Vela and Robert Perez. Maria is the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist and Robert is a Research Assistant at Hamai Consulting. We would like to introduce to you the start of the Independent Consulting TIG Week! The topic this week is Independent Does Not Mean Alone (Collaboration and Community …

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Are You Listening? Social Listening Tips by Jayne Corso

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 28, 2019

Hi my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA. Social listening is crucial to your social media strategy and can make an impact in your overall messaging and communication planning. Listening first and acting second, should be a key approach to managing social media. Here are a few tips for improving your listening …

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A Look at Language Week: It’s Time to Move Away From Opaque Evaluation Concepts by Melissa Chapman Haynes

3 Comments / Uncategorized / June 23, 2019

I’m Melissa Chapman Haynes, Director of Evaluation at Professional Data Analysts and adjunct at the University of Minnesota. Each spring I teach an Evaluation Internship course to graduate students from various sectors. And each spring this is the one time that I utter a couple of words that make me cringe. I use these words …

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A Look at Language Week: Renaming Social Betterment by Jean King

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 23, 2019

Greetings. This is Jean King, an Evaluation Studies professor at the University of Minnesota for another three months. My life-long goal as an evaluator has been to leave this messy world of ours a better place as a result of my work, even knowing that the measurement of that outcome is highly challenging. Some call …

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