Debi Lang and Sharon Grundel on Youth Program Ingredients: How to Measure Success and Tell the Story

We are Debi Lang and Sharon Grundel, with the Massachusetts Area Health Education Center Network (MassAHEC) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. MassAHEC supports health career exploration programs for diverse youth. Through four community-based AHEC Centers and 19 chapters of HOSA – Future Health Professionals (a national student-led …

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Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Evaluating Immigrant Workers Centers

I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, a private consultant on health services research.  In a recent study, my colleague Lee Staples (Boston University) and I explored Immigrant Workers Centers (IWCs), community-based organizations that have been developed in the United States to promote and protect workers’ rights through support, services, advocacy, and organizing initiatives.  We examined how IWCs …

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Dan McDonnell on 5 Social Media Tools For Curation and Visualization

Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association (AEA). With the vast amount of information going back and forth on social media channels, it can be difficult to filter and parse that data in meaningful ways. Luckily, there are dozens of third-party applications and tools that can …

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APC TIG Week: Lisa Hilt on Yes, it can be that simple! Value for Money analyses in policy advocacy and campaigns

Hi! I’m Lisa Hilt, a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Advisor for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam. We strive for policy changes that will right the wrongs of poverty, hunger, and injustice. Much of our progress takes place in small steps forward, resulting from ongoing engagement with key stakeholders and multiple campaign spikes (high intensity, short-term …

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APC TIG Week: Carlisle Levine on Using Contribution Analysis to Explore Causal Relationships in Advocacy and Policy Change

Hello! I’m Carlisle Levine, an independent evaluator specializing in advocacy, peacebuilding and strategic evaluation. I led CARE USA’s advocacy evaluation and co-led Catholic Relief Services’ program evaluation. A big challenge in advocacy evaluation, because of the many factors that influence policy change and the time it takes for change to come about, is drawing causal …

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APC TIG Week: Kat Athanasiades and Veena Pankaj on Small Picture, Big Picture: Using the Framework for Public Policy Advocacy in a Large-Scale Advocacy Campaign

Hello evaluation world! We are Kat Athanasiades and Veena Pankaj from Innovation Network. This might sound familiar: you are given hundreds of pages of grant documents to make sense of. You are left wondering, “Where do I start?” We were recently tasked with guiding evaluation for a funder’s national advocacy campaign, and had to make …

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APC TIG Week: Jewlya Lynn on Evaluations of Public Will-Building Strategies

I’m Jewlya Lynn, CEO at Spark Policy Institute, where we combine policy work with real-time evaluations of advocacy, field building, collective impact, and systems building to achieve sustainable, meaningful change. While advocacy evaluation as a field has developed tools and resources that are practical and appropriate for advocacy, it has done little to figure out …

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APC TIG Week: Rhonda Schlangen on Monitoring and Evaluation for Human Rights Organizations

Hello! My name is Rhonda Schlangen and I’m an evaluation consultant specializing in advocacy and development. By sharing struggles and strategies, evaluators and human rights organizations can help break down the conceptual, capacity and cultural barriers to using monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to support human rights work. In this spirit, three human rights organizations candidly …

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APC TIG Week: Anna Williams on the Broad Relevance of Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation

Hello!  My name is Anna Williams. I provide evaluation, facilitation, and learning services for social change organizations and BHAG initiatives.  (BHAGS, for those unfamiliar with this highly technical term, refers to Big Hairy Audacious Goals.) I would like to encourage you to consider whether methods used to evaluated advocacy efforts are relevant to your work, …

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Best of aea365: Sheila B. Robinson on Joining the aea365 Author Community

Greetings aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, Lead Curator of my favorite evaluation blog, aea365. As I’ve written many times before, I’ve claimed the title of “aea365’s biggest fan.” Not only have I been an avid reader myself, but a frequent contributor as well. In fact, my first piece of published writing was indeed an aea365 …

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