You’ve probably been there – at a fundraising event, and someone who has accessed the service gets up to the mic to tell their story. Sometimes it’s okay, but from my experience it can turn cringey quickly when people start sharing intimate details about times when they were at their most vulnerable. I’m Allison Prieur …
Hello! I’m Pamela Frazier-Anderson, a culturally responsive program evaluator and the founder of Kandaki Tech, a responsive website design company. In Reflections on the Journey of One Aspiring Culturally Responsive Evaluator-Thus Far, Dr. Stafford Hood wrote, “I have gotten beyond trying to explain how I got here. I do not think I have been in control of this ride; a lot of it does not make sense. Just a quick, subtle change of destiny and someone else would have been sitting here-not me.”
We are Jennica Nichols and Maya Lefkowich – arts-based evaluators from Vancouver, Canada. Coming into the New Year, we’ve been reflecting on lessons learned over the last year and wanted to share some with you (and welcome your thoughts too). After years of dreaming about an arts-based evaluation company, we finally started one. We launched …
The 2021-2022 AEA MSI Fellows held a session during the 2022 AEA annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana to discuss the reasons for participating in the Fellowship, what they learned throughout the Fellowship, and impact of the Fellowship on their approaches to evaluation, and opportunities to integrate new frameworks and tools in their teaching, mentoring, …
Greetings evaluators, my name is Melisa Sanmiguel, and I am the information lead at Kuja Kuja, a real-time feedback and accountability system that amplifies communities’ ideas and empowers active participation in the design and implementation of humanitarian services. Since 2016, Kuja Kuja has actively listened to over 2.2 million members of vulnerable communities in seven …
Hi everyone! My name is Elizabeth (Liz) DiLuzio, Lead Curator for AEA365. Today, I want to talk about data management. While I am no data analyst by training, I do have a lot of experience working with nonprofit, government, and foundation staff on their journey with data. I wrote a post a few years ago …
Hello friends! We are Drs. Albertina Lopez (she/her) and Chera Reid (she/her) from the Center for Evaluation Innovation (CEI), where we partner with philanthropy to provide changemakers the space and resources needed to advance racial justice and create an equitable future. We guide and support strategy, learning, and evaluation efforts that aim to advance racial …
We are Tanyel Taysi and Salome Tsereteli-Stephens from the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative. One of the programs our organization leads is Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), Grameen Foundation, and Search for Common Ground (Search).
Hi everyone! We are Tosha Shanableh, a University of New Orleans (UNO) MPA candidate, Professor Steve Mumford, also from UNO, and Andrew Holbein, Director of Resources and Data at VIA LINK. Our research partnership focuses on assessing community needs by utilizing VIA LINK’s 211 call data and resource database.
Hi all, I’m Linda Raftree and I have been leading the MERL Tech community of practice since 2014. MERL Tech is a term we use to describe technology-enabled Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL). Our vision is a world where the use of digital tools, technologies, and data for MERL in humanitarian, development, human rights, peacebuilding, and social impact programming is inclusive, ethical, responsible, safe, and sustainable.
