SIM TIG Week: Let’s Stop Undervaluing Project Outputs and Outcomes by Seth Tucker
Hi, I’m Seth Tucker, an Evaluation Analyst at TCC Group.
SIM TIG Week: Using Most Significant Change Stories in Social Finance System Change Initiatives by Jane Reisman, Jasmine Johnson, and John Sherman
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.
SIM TIG Week: Friends or Frenemies? Evaluation, Corporations and Sustainability by Morgan Buras-Finlay, Veronica Olazabal, Jared Raynor, and John Sherman
Hi AEA! Morgan Buras-Finlay (Raya Cooper Impact Consulting), Veronica Olazabal (BHP Foundation), Jared Raynor (TCC Group), John Sherman (Sherman Impact Consulting) here to discuss evaluation, corporations and sustainability.
SIM TIG Week: Qualitative Data Tools for Impact Measurement and Management by Slavica Stevanovic
My name is Slavica Stevanovic, and I am the Managing Partner of Qatalyst Research Group. This blog is about the importance of storytelling that captures our imagination for the field of social finance.
SIM TIG Week: Social Impact in Indianapolis by Courtney Bolinson, Morgan Buras-Finlay, Heather Esper, Lala Kasimova
Hi AEA! We are Courtney Bolinson, Morgan Buras-Finlay, Heather Esper and Lala Kasimova and we are members of the Social Impact Measurement TIG. This year at the AEA conference, we brought together Indianpolis’ impact investing and social enterprise community and AEA evaluators for a conversation about creating and telling the story of community-level change. This …
American Journal of Evaluation Week: Meet AJE’s Associate Editors by Stephanie A. Dopson, Melissa Rae Goodnight, Leanne Kallemeyn, John LaVelle, and Dana Linnell
To close out this week of AEA365 dedicated to the American Journal of Evaluation, we are introducing the journal’s Associate Editors! We are Stephanie A. Dopson, Melissa Rae Goodnight, Leanne Kallemeyn, John LaVelle, and Dana Linnell. Here we are going to each share our vision for the journal. Stephanie: I am thrilled to be part …
American Journal of Evaluation Week: Meet AJE’s Book Review Section Editors by Cherie Avent and Aileen Reid
Hello! We are Cherie Avent (Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Aileen Reid (Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina Greensboro), co-section editors of Book Reviews for AJE. We are thrilled to serve in this capacity! When was the last time you read a book review that inspired you to purchase …
American Journal of Evaluation Week: Meet AJE’s Method Note Section Editors by Tarek Azzam and Ralph Renger
Hi Everyone, this is Tarek Azzam (director of the Center for Evaluation and Assessment at the University of California, Santa Barbara) and Ralph Renger (Just Evaluation Services, LLC, Vail, AZ). We are the co-editors of the Method Note Section of AJE, and we’d love to share our thoughts on the vision for this section. The …
American Journal of Evaluation Week: Meet AJE’s Experimental Methodology Section Editor by Carl Westine
Hello! My name is Carl Westine and I am an associate professor of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I’m also the new Section Editor for Experimental Methodology with the American Journal of Evaluation (AJE). Today I want to call your attention to some scope refreshing regarding this section …
American Journal of Evaluation Week: Meet AJE’s Teaching & Learning of Evaluation Section Editors by Daniela Schroeter and Rebecca Woodland
Hello, we are Daniela Schroeter andRebecca Woodland, the co-editors of the T&L section of AJE. We are professors, trainers, and evaluation practitioners, and encourage you to consider submitting an article for publication in the Teaching and Learning section of AJE. Daniela has special expertise in interdisciplinary theory and methodology, and Rebecca’s scholarship has focused on …