Liz Zadnik on Balancing plates: Finding a space for evaluation among everything else I have to do (A Practitioner’s Story)

Hi there, Liz Zadnik here, new(ish) member of the aea365 curating team and sometimes Saturday poster. Last year Sheila posed the question What is it that YOU would like to read about on this blog? One of the responses resonated with me, as it represented my relationship with evaluation as a professional: I would love to …

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Best of aea365 week: Käri Greene on Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Evaluation

My name is Käri Greene and I’m a Senior Research Analyst at Program Design & Evaluation Services, an intergovernmental agency for the Oregon Public Health Division and Multnomah County Health Department, as well as a co-Chair for the LGBT Issues TIG. Hold on…what was that jumble of letters at the end of the sentence? Well, …

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Best of aea365 week: Judah Viola on Building Capacity to Succeed as an Independent Consultant

My name is Judah Viola and I am a Community Psychologist at National Louis University in Chicago. I also manage an independent consulting practice specializing in program evaluation and collaborative community research. Whether boom or bust economy, it is never a bad time to build your own evaluation skills and capacity to provide value for clients. Fortunately, …

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Best of aea365 week: Summer Jackson on Insights Into Foundation Evaluation

My name is Summer N. Jackson, Project Director at Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy a regional, nonprofit membership organization that focuses on advancing the interests of African Americans in philanthropy and address the impact of racial disparity within philanthropic institutions and African American communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had the opportunity to …

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Best of aea365 week: Amy Germuth on Reporting Findings

My name is Amy A. Germuth,  and I am Founder and President of EvalWorks, LLC in Durham, NC and blog at EvalThoughts.com. Over the last year I have worked improving my reporting of findings to better meet my client’s needs and have a few great resources to help you do the same. Rad Resource: “Unlearning Some of …

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Best of aea365 week: Lija Greenseid on Using a Readability Calculator

My name is Lija Greenseid. I am a Senior Evaluator, with Professional Data Analysts, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN. We conduct evaluations of stop-smoking programs. Smokers generally have lower education levels than the general population. Therefore, we want to make sure the materials we develop are understandable to smokers. Rad Resource: Use a “readability calculator” to …

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Best of aea365 week: Ann Zukoski on Participatory Evaluation Approaches

My name is Ann Zukoski and I am a Senior Research Associate at Rainbow Research, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded as a nonprofit organization in 1974, Rainbow Research’s mission is to improve the effectiveness of socially-concerned organizations through capacity building, research, and evaluation. Projects range in scale from one-time program evaluations to multi-year, multi-site research …

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Sara Vaca on Creativity and Evaluation Part I

“Creativity is intelligence having fun”, Albert Einstein. Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant (EvalQuality.com) and recently appointed Creative Advisor of this blog. To start contributing I thought of writing some posts about how creativity intertwines with evaluation. This is Part I of a two-part post. Lesson Learned: Evaluation is a rigorous, systematic transdiscipline. However, evaluators …

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Bloggers Week: Chithra Adams on Evaluation and Design Thinking

Hello! My name is Chithra Adams. I work as an evaluator at the Human Development Institute, University of Kentucky. I blog about design thinking and evaluation. Rad Resource – Evaluation and Design Thinking: The blog explores the application of design thinking principles to the practice of evaluation. Each post includes a review of design thinking …

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