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CEA Affiliate Week: Maximizing Impact: How Evaluation can Help Address the Global Pandemic by Dominica McBride & Jen LoPiccolo

1 Comment / Uncategorized / December 5, 2020

Hello, AEA Community! We are Dr. Dominica McBride and Jen LoPiccolo, MSW from BECOME, a social change agency in Chicago with a mission to nourish communities affected by poverty and injustice to make their vision of a thriving community a reality. Our organizational toolbox includes Culturally Responsive Evaluation and practice, community engagement, strategic planning, facilitation, …

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CEA Affiliate Week: How To Show The Real People Behind The Data by Amelia Kohm

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / December 4, 2020

I am Amelia Kohm, Ph.D.,  the founder of Data Viz for Nonprofits (DVN) in Chicago. DVN helps organizations to effectively and beautifully present their data on websites, reports, slide decks, interactive data dashboards and more. Data visualizations can provide something that photos and case studies—for all of their visceral appeal—cannot. Context. Charts, maps, and graphs …

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CEA Affiliate Week: Opportunities for Evaluation in the Family First Prevention Services Act by Cara Karter & Anne Farrell

1 Comment / Uncategorized / December 4, 2020

Hello! We are Cara Karter and Anne Farrell from Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. We are passionate about generating evidence to drive policy and practice changes that can improve the services and supports available to families.  The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) has significant implications for the evaluation of programs delivered to …

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CEA Affiliate Week: When Multidisciplinary Collaboration Leads to Identifying an Access Protective Factor by Christina Iyengar

1 Comment / Behavioral Health, Uncategorized / December 4, 2020

Hello! I am Dr. Christina Iyengar, from Rush University Medical Center. I am part of an evaluation team that supports a new initiative aimed to reduce health disparity on Chicago’s West Side. The program, Building Early Connections (BEC), seeks to improve systems of care within Rush University Medical Center for the most common social-emotional, behavioral …

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CEA Affiliate Week: Swapping Speakers Builds Knowledge and Community: The Simple Magic of a Speakers’ Exchange by Asma M. Ali, Amelia Kohm and Matt Feldmann

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 20, 2019

We are Asma Ali and Amelia Kohm from Chicagoland Evaluation Association and Matt Feldmann from Evaluation Association of St. Louis [EASL]. We are here to talk about the benefits of a local speaker exchange and share how we made the most of it at a recent Chicago Grant Professionals Association [GPA] conference. The training, Advanced …

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CEA Affiliate Week: Committing to Building Local Evaluation Capacity for International Projects by Casey Solomon-Filer

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 19, 2019

Hello everyone. My name is Casey Solomon-Filer and I am an evaluation consultant in the Chicago area with a background in international development. Working as a project assistant outside of the US, I was drawn to evaluation as a method of shifting the power of decision-making from international funders to local communities. Over the past …

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CEA Affiliate Week: Evaluating informal learning in Chicagoland and beyond By Rebecca Teasdale, Lindsay Maldonado, and Cecilia Garibay

2 Comments / Arts, Culture, and Museums / July 19, 2019

Hello! We are Rebecca Teasdale, Lindsay Maldonado, and Cecilia Garibay—three Chicago-based evaluators who practice in museums, aquariums/zoos, libraries, and other informal learning contexts. Given that Chicago is known for its world-class cultural institutions, it’s a great home base for our work. Today, we’re pleased to share three lessons we’ve learned about evaluation of informal learning …

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CEA Affiliate Week: Using process mapping to visualize program components by Cara Karter

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 19, 2019

I’m Cara Karter and I work as a research assistant at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. This summer I have been facilitating process mapping with a youth-serving organization looking to re-align their measurement strategy in preparation for a formal evaluation. Process mapping is a visual way to represent a program’s components from the …

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CEA Affiliate Week: The LIVING Logic Model: A Logic Model Plugged Into Real-Time Data by Amelia Kohm

5 Comments / Uncategorized / July 19, 2019

Hello! I am Amelia Kohm, founder of Data Viz for Nonprofits, a consulting firm that helps organizations to better use and show their data through charts, maps, and graphs. My work is all about making data accessible and reducing the journey from data to action. And one way to do that is with a living …

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CEA Affiliate Week: CEA Speaker Series by Asma Ali and Rebecca Teasdale

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 19, 2019

Welcome to the Chicagoland Evaluation Association’s (CEA) week of AEA 365. We are Asma Ali, President and Rebecca Teasdale, Treasurer of CEA. CEA begin many years ago as a forum for evaluation professionals and students in the Chicagoland area to network, exchange ideas and knowledge, and participate in professional development activities that promote excellence in …

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