We’re Chris Lovato, Professor in the School of Population & Public Health at the University of British Columbia, and Kylie Hutchinson, independent consultant and author of A Short Primer on Innovative Evaluation Reporting. To date, most evaluation capacity-building has tended to focus on program-level managers and staff, ignoring the key role that senior leaders also …
Hello! I’m Kylie Hutchinson (a.k.a. @EvaluationMaven), an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. One of the most popular AEA365 posts over time is Annaliese Calhoun’s Measuring Sustainability Capacity and Planning for Long Term Success. I suspect this is because as evaluators, our work can regularly stray into the area of …
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I’m Kylie Hutchinson (a.k.a. @EvaluationMaven), independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation and author of Survive and Thrive: Three Steps to Enhancing Your Program Sustainability. The word I chose to memorialize this week is a small but important one. It’s the letter “a”, as in “She asked for a final evaluation …
Memorial Week in Evaluation: The Demise of the Lengthy Report by Kylie Hutchinson Read More »
My name is Kylie Hutchinson and I’m an independent evaluator with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. Each year, I adapt a Christmas carol to share with my colleagues and clients. Seasons greetings, and enjoy! The Twelve Promoters of Program Sustainability On the first day of the program, my boss she gave to me, Some tips …
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Hello! I’m Kylie Hutchinson (a.k.a. @EvaluationMaven), independent evaluation consultant with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation and volunteer member of the 2016 Systems in Evaluation (Un)Conference coordinating committee. The day I completed my first real system map felt like a real accomplishment. A system map visually depicts the various elements present in a given system and …
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My name is Kylie Hutchinson and I’m an independent evaluator and owner of Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. Each year, I adapt a Christmas carol to share with my colleagues and clients. Seasons greetings, and enjoy! I’m Dreaming of a Data Party (sung to the tune of “White Christmas”) I’m dreaming of a data party …
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We’re Bethany Laursen and Kylie Hutchinson, volunteer members of the upcoming Systems in Evaluation Unconference coordinating committee. This October 13 – 15, 2015 from 3 – 4:30 pm ET evaluators everywhere will be able to participate in a unique online learning event, a virtual unconference, hosted by the AEA Systems in Evaluation Topical Interest Group …
I’m Kylie Hutchinson, independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I also tweet regularly at @EvaluationMaven. Have you ever wondered what evaluation recommendations and SpongeBob SquarePants have in common? Well, in my opinion, a lot. Think about why we make recommendations. We want stakeholders to take action on our evaluation findings. …
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I’m Kylie Hutchinson, independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I also tweet regularly at @EvaluationMaven. Systems thinking and evaluation is a hot topic these days, and as someone who spends a fair bit of time in evaluation capacity building, it has me thinking a lot about logic models. Some of …
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My name is Kylie Hutchinson and I’m an independent evaluator and owner of Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. Each year, I adapt a Christmas carol to share with my evaluation colleagues and not-for-profit clients. Enjoy! Hot Tip: Poems and songs are one way of communicating evaluation concepts in a fun and memorable way. Rad Resource: …
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