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Meet The Team: Membership and Operations Senior Associate, Kutia Swinney

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 20, 2024

Hey there. It is my pleasure to introduce myself as Kutia Swinney, the Membership & Operations Sr. Associate at the American Evaluation Association (AEA). In my role, I support, expand, and promote AEA’s programs which include the Graduate Education Diversity Internship, Minority Serving Institution Fellowship, and Student Evaluation Case Competition. Future evaluation leaders are shaped …

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Meet The Team: Elizabeth Grim, AEA365’s Curator

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 11, 2024

Greetings, evaluation friends! Elizabeth Grim here. Founder of Elizabeth Grim Consulting and Curator of AEA365. I blend learning, evaluation, and strategy to support purpose-driven organizations in making bold decisions with data through intentional inquiry, meaningful measurement, and sustainable solutions.

Meet The Team: Elizabeth DiLuzio, AEA365’s Lead Curator

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 24, 2023

Hello, evaluation community! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. This week, we’re taking the opportunity to pull back the curtain at the American Evaluation Association (AEA), giving you an opportunity to get to know the staff a bit better. You’ve likely seen my name around the blog and, if you’ve emailed aea365@eval.org in …

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Meet The Team: Let’s Play ‘Guess Who’ by Elizabeth DiLuzio and Elizabeth Grim

4 Comments / Uncategorized / January 8, 2024

Hi everyone! AEA365 Lead Curator Elizabeth DiLuzio and Curator Elizabeth Grim here with a Guess Who style game for you. We have a sneaking suspicion that the two curators of AEA365 both being named Elizabeth might have confused a few folks over the years. So, in today’s post, we’re going to play a game of …

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SIM TIG Week: Unintended Consequences of Impact by Andrea Nelson Trice

1 Comment / Social Impact Measurement / December 23, 2023

Hi! I’m Shubha Kumar, and I’m an associate professor of global health at the University of Southern California (USC) and a consultant passionate about impact measurement and management.  Over the past couple of years, I’ve been working with my colleagues Sara Olsen and Aaron Mallett at SVT Group, an impact advisory firm, and Saji Prelis, Director, Children and Youth Programmes at Search for Common Ground and co-chair of the Global Coalition on Youth, Peace & Security (YPS), to explore how we can measure the impact of peacebuilding programming and inform investments in this space. 

SIM TIG Week: Social Return on Investment (SROI) as an Evaluation Framework for Localization by Shubha Kumar

Leave a Comment / Social Impact Measurement / December 23, 2023

Hi! I’m Shubha Kumar, and I’m an associate professor of global health at the University of Southern California (USC) and a consultant passionate about impact measurement and management.  Over the past couple of years, I’ve been working with my colleagues Sara Olsen and Aaron Mallett at SVT Group, an impact advisory firm, and Saji Prelis, Director, Children and Youth Programmes at Search for Common Ground and co-chair of the Global Coalition on Youth, Peace & Security (YPS), to explore how we can measure the impact of peacebuilding programming and inform investments in this space. 

SIM TIG Week: Using Most Significant Change Stories in Social Finance System Change Initiatives by Jane Reisman, Jasmine Johnson, and John Sherman

1 Comment / Social Impact Measurement / December 23, 2023

How do you as an evaluator learn how individuals or communities experience an investment intended to benefit them when the intervention is not directly with them? This situation faced us – Jane Reisman, Jasmine Johnson, and John Sherman (aka JCrew) – in our evaluation of the Community Investment Guarantee Pool (CIGP). This pool of philanthropic and mission-oriented investors uses an innovative social finance tool known as an “unfunded guarantee” to test credit risk assumptions that historically disadvantaged businesses led by people of color or women. The pool targets small businesses, affordable housing developers, and climate solution providers.