Hello AEA 365 Readers! We are Kurt and Aaron, independent evaluation consultants with Effect X LLC. Our experience includes international and cross-cultural evaluations and capacity building projects around the world for organizations such as UNICEF, The World Food Program, The World Bank, Compassion International, Heifer International and The Carter Center. For those new to the …
Hi! We’re Thomaz Chianca and Jane Davidson. We have been collaborating over the past several years to help organizations use evaluation to drive and learn from systems transformation that addresses both equity and environmental sustainability. It is challenging to evaluate change efforts that have closed out several years earlier – especially when the evidence is …
Greetings AEA365 readers. I’m Linda Cabral from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Many evaluations that I’ve been a part of in my 15+ year career have required a review of existing program documents. This has involved a range of documents such as program descriptions, meeting minutes, proposals and grantee reports. There can be many purposes to performing a document review. Often, it can provide you the background necessary to formulate your primary data collection tools. Other times, document review can be your sole data collection method when your evaluation only requires descriptive information such as number and type of sites or a description of participants and program costs. Funders appreciate this data collection method because it does not pose a burden to program staff as the data already exists. Regardless of the main purpose of your document review, I’ve found it helpful to be able to approach this type of review in a systematic way.
Hi! I am Maia Elkana, the evaluation director for the Institute for School Partnership at Washington University in St. Louis, where I direct program evaluation across research-practice partnerships between teachers and administrators, education and scientific researchers from the university, and community partners.
Howdy! I’m Dawn Valentine, founder of the Variable Scoop. I would like to share how photovoice can support community-based initiatives for environmental justice with health outcomes. We use tools that empower people who are typically excluded from decision-making processes and education to raise awareness of social and environmental issues. In addressing environmental injustice and environmental …
Greetings from Vidhya Shanker, originator of #WhyIsEvaluationSoWhite? and convener of #TheMay13Group. I’m humbled and honored to share how Dr. Stafford Hood’s work is pivotal to understand the origins of evaluation’s demographic, ideological, and epistemological whiteness.
Hi, I’m Dominica McBride, Founder of BECOME and a past student and long-time mentee and co-
conspirator of Stafford Hood. While ineffable, the following words represent just the surface of the depth of influence Stafford Hood had on my life, using my life as just one example of the many lives and minds he shaped.
Hi. I’m Justin Laing, and I’m the principal consultant of Hillombo LLC, a company working to deepen praxis in the 501-c(3) sector through Black Studies informed experimentation in evaluation, organizational development and planning. In this post I offer a few ideas for identifying ways that institutions in the 501-c3 arts system reproduce the social relations …
Hi, I’m Rachael Jenison (MFA/MPA) and am currently serving as an AmeriCorps Member at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, a mayoral agency that oversees the distribution of city funds to arts and culture organizations. My focus there is on evaluation of equity-based reforms to the grant-making process. Prior to serving at DCLA, …
Marcel W. Foster, MPH, here, and I use they/them pronouns. Before jumping into today’s blog (merely a preview of this week’s contributions) – I invite you to take one simple inhale and one simple exhale. via GIPHY It is of course an honor and GEEK TRIUMPH to curate the 2023 Arts, Culture, & Museum (ACM) …
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