Hi, I’m Samantha Grant, and I work for the University of Minnesota Extension as a Program Evaluator for the Center for Youth Development. As an internal evaluator, building evaluation capacity is crucial for my organization (and my mental health!) Building capacity doesn’t happen overnight, but with a few tactical strategies, you will be on your …
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I’m Corrie Whitmore, one of the new At Large Board Members for AEA. I live in Anchorage, Alaska where I am president of the Alaska Evaluation Network and an internal evaluator for Southcentral Foundation, an Alaska Native owned and operated health care organization serving approximately 60,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people each year. In …
Hi! My name is Celeste Brubaker and I am a Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator at IREX. IREX is a US-based nonprofit organization working to improve lives through international education, professional training, and technical assistance. In our education programs division we have a portfolio of seven student programs (in which international young leaders complete intensive U.S. …
My name is Adam Kessler, and I work with the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED). The DCED has developed a monitoring framework called the “DCED Standard for Results Measurement”, which is currently used by over a hundred private sector development projects across five continents. This blog provides some lessons learned on why evaluators need …
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Greetings! We are Lily Zandniapour of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and Nicole Vicinanza of JBS International. We work together with our colleagues at CNCS and JBS to review and monitor the evaluation plans developed and implemented by programs participating in the CNCS Social Innovation Fund (SIF). The SIF is one of …
Hi, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association. The worldwide web is a treasure trove of useful information and knowledge. Where productivity is concerned, this can often be a double-edged sword: where reading Twitter, blogs and Wikipedia can be immensely rewarding, it is quite easy to fall …
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Greetings, we’re Ann K. Emery and Johanna Morariu, Innovation Network evaluators and p2i Advisory Board Members. We train foundations and nonprofits on everything from Evaluation 101 concepts to logic models to data visualization through both in-person trainings and online webinars. Lesson Learned: Want to rock your next webinar? We’ve adapted p2i’s preparation, design, and delivery …
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Hello evaluation folks! I am Laura Beals, Director of Evaluation at Jewish Family and Children’s Service, a large multi-service nonprofit in Waltham, MA. Last year was my first AEA annual conference and I was fortunate to be able to present. As I was preparing my presentation, I was alerted to p2i resources; while at first …
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My name is Meredith Haaf and I work for the Evaluation Studies Unit in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. I used the p2i poster guidelines to create a conference poster illustrating the findings of an evaluation. Although I had some ideas for creating effective presentations, I wanted to learn new …
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I’m Kate Haley Goldman, and I’m the co-owner of Audience Viewpoints Consulting. We work with informal science and arts and cultural institutions. Last year, I applied p2i Design principles to a presentation I gave at the Visitor Studies Association conference. It was the best way to showcase my content for several reasons. First, it fit …
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