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Judy Savageau and Len Levin on Today’s Librarian and Building an Evaluation Team

1 Comment / Uncategorized / April 4, 2015

We are Judy Savageau and Len Levin from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) and Lamar Soutter Library, respectively. Back in November, we introduced you to a week’s worth of lessons learned, hot tips and rad resources for how the literature (written and electronic) and various databases provide …

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Myia Welsh on Conducting Focus Groups with Trauma Survivors

3 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Qualitative Methods / April 4, 2015

Hi! I’m Myia Welsh, an independent consultant working with nonprofit and community organizations. Much of my work is done with organizations that provide services to survivors of human trafficking. What’s that, you ask? Trafficking is any enterprise where someone makes a profit from the exploitation of another by force, fraud or coercion. Just like the …

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Sara Vaca on My 3 most Remarkable Moments About Evaluation

2 Comments / Uncategorized / April 4, 2015

Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca (@visualbrains), independent consultant at EvalQuality.com and Creative Advisor of this blog. Evaluators are very interesting people, whose experiences are as worth exploring as the people we work with. So I had this idea: wouldn’t it be great to know the top 3 stories/moments that most influenced each evaluator? I think it …

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CP TIG Week: Steve Erickson on Evaluation by collaboration

1 Comment / Community Psychology / March 25, 2015

I’m Steve Erickson of EMSTAR Research, a community/organizational consulting firm based in Atlanta. For the last 10 years I have served as lead evaluator for the Georgia Family Connection Partnership (GaFCP), a public/private nonprofit that supports a statewide network of “Family Connection” Collaboratives addressing child and family issues in all 159 counties. Georgia is the …

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CP TIG Week: Natalie Wilkins and Courtney Barnard on “Walking the Talk” to bridge community psychology and evaluation

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / March 25, 2015

Hello! We are Natalie Wilkins and Courtney Barnard, and we are members of the Community Psychology TIG leadership team. Community and stakeholder engagement is a core principle of both evaluation and community psychology. As evaluators and community psychologists, it is not surprising that we are very interested in learning about how stakeholder engagement strengthens our …

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CP TIG Week: Courtney Barnard on Creating sustained impact

1 Comment / Community Psychology / March 25, 2015

Hi, my name is Courtney Barnard and I am a social worker at a children’s health care system in north Texas. I spend half my time out in the community coordinating a coalition and the other half evaluating seven other community-based coalitions and programs. You can use evaluation to help plan for the sustained impact …

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CP TIG Week: Rachel Leventon on Using theory of change in evaluating community coalitions and collaboratives

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / March 25, 2015

My name is Rachel Leventon, and I am a consultant at CNM Connect, a nonprofit capacity building organization. Most of my work focuses on training, coaching, and consulting to increase the internal program evaluation capacities of nonprofit organizations and collaboratives. I am a sociologist at heart so theory informs everything I do. As a result, …

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CP TIG Week: Susan Wolfe on Engaging community coalition members in evaluation

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / March 25, 2015

My name is Susan Wolfe and I am the owner of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that applies Community Psychology principles to strengthening organizations and communities. A lot of my work involves helping to develop and evaluate community coalitions. Because of the dynamic nature of coalitions facilitating their development and providing evaluative …

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CP TIG Week: Ann Price on (Re)Invigorating community coalition evaluation efforts

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / March 25, 2015

My name is Ann Price and I am the President of Community Evaluation Solutions, Inc.(CES), a consulting firm based just outside Atlanta, Georgia. I am a community psychologist and work to infuse environmental approaches into my work developing and evaluating community prevention programs. Much of my work involves working with community coalitions. Hot Tip: Appreciate …

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Jayne Corso on Using SlideShare to Give your Presentations Longevity

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 27, 2015

Hi my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA.  As part of my routine, I use a lot of the typical social media platforms such as Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest, but many tools often get overlooked. SlideShare is a great example of a tool that can help you gain …

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