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Visionary Evaluation Week: Living as a Visionary Evaluative by Lovely Dhillon

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 8, 2020

I’m Lovely Dhillon, CEO of Jodevi Consulting based in Atlanta, GA. I have been privileged throughout my career to work with visionaries across the world who share a dedication to using their expertise and life experience to create a better world. Beverly Parsons and Matt Keene, co-editors of Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable Future, and …

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NPF TIG Week: The Teaching Case: A 360 Review for Evaluators and the Partners Who Love Them! by Mindelyn Anderson

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / December 1, 2019

Hello, I am Mindelyn Anderson, PhD, Founder + Principal of Mirror Group LLC, and Equitable Evaluation Initiative Teaching Case Facilitator.  In my evaluation consultant work, I am always on the hunt for learning and development activities and approaches to engage across funders, grantees, and communities. With that pursuit in mind, I find the Teaching Case …

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Identifying scammers in online studies by Elizabeth Cook, Makedah Johnson, and Jennifer Manlove

4 Comments / Uncategorized / March 9, 2019

Greetings! We’re Elizabeth Cook, Makedah Johnson, and Jennifer Manlove, researchers at Child Trends, a non-profit research organization in Bethesda, MD. We are evaluating an innovative web-based mobile app designed to prevent teen pregnancy. Since this intervention takes place exclusively online and by text message, we rarely have direct contact with our study participants, so it …

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LA RED TIG Week: Beyond the zero-impact result: have you checked the spillover effects? By María Fernanda Rodrigo

Leave a Comment / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse / September 2, 2018

Greetings! I am María Fernanda Rodrigo and I am a Senior Associate evaluator at the Office of Evaluation and Oversight at the Inter-American Development Bank, where my research focuses on productive sectors. Have you ever found zero effects in your impact evaluation? After incorporating many specifications, the data is clear: your program has no effect …

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Refining Theories of Change by Sara Vaca and Lovely Dhillon

4 Comments / Program Theory and Theory Driven Evaluation / May 5, 2018

Hi, I am Sara Vaca (Independent Evaluator and Saturday’s contributor to this blog), and today I am sharing part of the work Lovely Dhillon (Jodevi Consulting) and I have been doing on regarding Theories of Change. Since Theories of Change (ToCs) are having a lot of attention lately, we wanted to share our learning and …

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Labor Day Week: Evaluation as a Labor of Love by Martha A. Brown

1 Comment / Uncategorized / September 2, 2017

Hello! I’m Martha A. Brown President of  RJAE Consulting. Lately, an endless stream of conference speakers, blog writers, Indigenous evaluators, and authors have confronted and challenged my “programming” as an evaluator. Traditional evaluation methods place tremendous emphasis on research methods and evaluation theory – but not necessarily on the people we work with and for. …

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SIM TIG Week: Impact measurement in impact investing and international development – what’s the diff? by Donna Loveridge

3 Comments / Social Impact Measurement / February 25, 2017

Hi, my name is Donna Loveridge and I work with the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED), a forum for learning about the most effective ways to create economic opportunities for the poor, in line with the SDGs – based on practical experience in private sector development. International development organisations, such as DCED members, have …

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Experiments TIG Week: Laura Peck on How I Learned to Love the Counterfactual Laura Peck

Leave a Comment / Design and Analysis of Experiments / December 23, 2016

I’m Laura Peck, recovering professor and now full-time evaluator with Abt Associates.  For many years I taught graduate Research Methods and Program Evaluation courses. One part I enjoyed most was introducing students to the concepts of causality, internal validity and the counterfactual – summarized here as hot tips. Hot Tips: #1:  What is causality? Correlation …

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Lovely Dhillon on If, How and Why the AEA Should Act Collectively

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / October 18, 2016

Growing up in the South with my name – Lovely Dhillon – assured me of a few things.  One, people would likely remember me, and two, that I would have to try to live up to an often used Southern expression, “lovely is as lovely does.”  After having moved back to the South last year …

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