Hi, my name is Heidi Berthoud (bear-too), and I am the founder and principal at Heidi Berthoud Consulting. My team and I work on public health issues through community-based data collection and reporting in the Pacific Northwest.

We are Nubia Goodwin (Research Associate) and Carolyn Fisher (Research and Evaluation Scientist) of the Institute for Community Health. We are both members of a project team that conducted a social network analysis as part of our evaluation of a multi-year, national funding project focused on community power building.

Hi! We are Matt Feldmann and Sam Robison, and we are here to provide you with some context for what it is like to lead an evaluation practice and/or a university based research center that serves higher education clients. Matt owns and operates Goshen Consulting, a small independent consulting firm in Edwardsville, Illinois. Sam is an Associate Professor of Research in the Social Research and Evaluation Center at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana—note that I am not the director of our center, though I work closely with her and hope to have something useful to provide to this conversation!

Greetings! We, Sabrina Nwonye and Daniel Ticehurst, are old friends who worked together on a Policy Development Facility in Nigeria from 2015 to 2020. Our mission was clear: to create a space where those at the frontline of the facility’s work could share their stories, learn from one another, and ignite actionable change through a unique internal evaluation method. This endeavor led us to work closely with a dedicated team of Nigerian Embedded Advisors (EAs) who operated within the challenging landscape of federal-level government institutions, one subject to many political jinks and sways.

We are Agata Slota, Cassandra Ake, and Lucinda Jones with the USAID-funded Data for Impact (D4I) project. D4I supports countries to generate and use high-quality data to improve their programs, policies, and health outcomes. Our activity with D4I focuses on identifying behavioral interventions to increase the use of evaluation findings. Here are 10 evidence-based approaches your organization can try.

We are Omar Brown, MBA and Quisha Brown, MSA,MPA, consultants and co-founders of Humanistic Care, LLC, an organization offering culturally responsive solutions to tough challenges faced by organizations. We’re also the creators of an inclusive evaluation framework called the Progressive Outcomes Scale Logic Model (POSLM). This blog post discusses how strategies used in approaches such as the POSLM can help “bulletproof” DEI Evaluation Plans in hopes of shielding organizations from discrimination allegations and lawsuits.