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LAWG Week: Building Community: Failures and creativity’s nexus, and a nod to MESI

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 24, 2019 September 21, 2019

I’m Michael Quinn Patton of Utilization-Focused Evaluation. I came to the University of Minnesota in 1973 as a postdoc in one of the world’s first evaluation methodology training programs. Though I’ve been here the better part of my life, I’m still viewed as an outsider by native Minnesotans. However, they would appreciate making you aware …

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LAWG Week: Building Community: Building the Minnesota Evaluation Community – Creative and Innovative Approaches by Jean A. King

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 23, 2019 September 21, 2019

This is Jean King, Professor Emerita at the University of Minnesota and founder and former director of the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI), so named because, as we all know, evaluation is MESI/“messy.” Building a collaborative community of program evaluators and clients is one consistent MESI goal, enacted in a variety of ways: A website …

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LAWG Week: Building Community: Welcome to Minnesota! A LAWG welcome to the North Star State by Melissa Chapman Haynes and Tia Bastian

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 22, 2019 September 21, 2019

This is Melissa Chapman Haynes and Tia Bastian, from Professional Data Analysts in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Today we introduce a week of posts from the Local Area Affiliate Workgroup (LAWG). We are busy ensuring that Evaluation 2019 will be an amazing experience! We look forward to welcoming many of you to our lovely city, but if …

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LAWG Week: Engaging Youth to Improve Program Quality by Stella SiWan Zimmerman

10 Comments / Youth Focused Evaluation / August 2, 2019 July 23, 2019

Hello, my name is Stella SiWan Zimmerman, and I am the Founder and President of ACET, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN. A year ago, ACET was selected to evaluate the Hmong American Partnership’s 21st Century Community Learning grant from the Minnesota Department of Education. The Hmong American Partnership collaborates with the Community School of Excellence to …

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LAWG Week: Afterschool Programs: Young People are Evaluation Experts by Cheryl Meld

14 Comments / Youth Focused Evaluation / August 1, 2019 July 23, 2019

Greetings from McGregor, Minnesota! I am Cheryl Meld, Afterschool Program Director at McGregor Public School. McGregor is located in Greater Minnesota about 2.5 hours from the Twin Cities (120 miles). I am excited to share my experience about how to approach evaluating the complex 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program. This competitive grant …

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LAWG Week: MNEA and Youth Evaluation by Lauren Bloem

2 Comments / Youth Focused Evaluation / July 31, 2019 August 1, 2019

My name is Lauren Bloem. I’m an internal evaluator at AchieveMpls. As the strategic nonprofit partner of Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), AchieveMpls rallies community support to inspire and equip Minneapolis youth for careers, college, and life. I led a strategic project this year to learn how youth want to be consulted in Career and College …

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LAWG Week: Centering Youth by Claire Dunlap

1 Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / July 30, 2019 August 1, 2019

My name is Claire Dunlap. I serve on the Minnesota Evaluation Association (MNEA) board as program co-chair and work at Youthprise as director of organizational effectiveness. I’m here to share how and why we engage youth in our processes and decisions at Youthprise, and it starts with our mission. Youthprise’s mission is to reduce disparities …

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LAWG Week: Evaluation Firms: Let’s Hire Youth! by Katie Fritz Fogel and Selam Tilahun

1 Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / July 29, 2019 August 1, 2019

Hello! We’re Katie Fritz Fogel and Selam Tilahun, Research Associates at Rainbow Research, a nonprofit evaluation and applied community research firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building, Sally Leiderman challenges evaluators to imagine “What would anti-racist evaluation look like?” We see evaluation as one tool for anti-racist community building …

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LAWG Week: WOPASI: Indigenous Youth Research & Development Center by Wakinyan LaPointe

3 Comments / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Youth Focused Evaluation / July 28, 2019 July 23, 2019

Wakinyan miye yelo Sicangu Lakota Oyate hematanhan. Lakowicoh’an waun welo. My name is Wakinyan LaPointe, I am from the Burnt Thigh Lakota Nation. I am here to kick off a full week of blogs about youth-engaged evaluation on behalf of the Minnesota Evaluation Association, acting as the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) planning for AEA …

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LAWG Week: The Potential Impact of Twitter on Disseminating Evaluation Findings by Tania Jarosewich

1 Comment / Uncategorized / September 14, 2018 September 2, 2018

Hello, my name is Tania Jarosewich, owner of Censeo Group, a northeast Ohio program evaluation firm that supports educational agencies and nonprofit organizations in evaluating their programmatic efforts. We northeast Ohio evaluators are excited to welcome you to Cleveland for Evaluation 2018. Check out the Rad Resources below for a list of Cleveland-focused Twitter feeds. …

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