My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Rad Resource – The aea365 Evaluation Bloggers Series: Beginning December of last year, for one week each month through April, we highlighted evaluation blogs in our Bloggers Series. Altogether, over 25 bloggers shared information about their blogs, …
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Greetings! My name is Jesse Burns, and I am part of the OL-ECB TIG leadership. Outside of AEA, I am an independent consultant that works with a variety of organizations to design, implement and evaluate new products and services. As an independent consultant, I have learned that managing the uncertainty with innovation projects is critical …
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My name is Bonnie Richards, and as a professional with both experience and an academic background in Evaluation and Organizational Behavior, I have had the opportunity to facilitate the evaluation and learning process with stakeholders in many different industries. Although my experiences have been unique across projects, I have noticed a common thread that ties …
Hi, I’m Joe Bauer, the director of Survey Research in the Statistics & Evaluation Center at the American Cancer Society – National Home Office in Atlanta, Georgia. I have been working as an internal evaluator for almost seven years, in one of the most dynamic, challenging, and rewarding positions that I have ever had. Lesson …
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Hello! My name is Laura Keene, owner of Keene Insights, a one-woman consulting shop based in sunny Los Angeles, California. Over the past nine years, I’ve worked as both an internal and an external evaluator in a variety of settings. For many organizations, especially smaller nonprofits, working with me is their first introduction to evaluation. …
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I’m Jeff Sheldon from Claremont Graduate University and today I’m sharing the Readiness for Organizational Learning and Evaluation (ROLE) instrument because I think it’s a vastly under-utilized resource that evaluation practitioners should consider when they want to find out whether an organization is a learning organization or ready for an evaluation. In my own research …
I’m Joseph Bauer, Chair of the Organizational Learning-Evaluation Capacity Building Topical Interest Group (OL-ECB TIG), here with Allison Titcomb, ALTA Consulting/ Arizona Evaluation Network (AZENET) /Local Affiliate Collaborative (LAC). We have prepared this post as a model activity that reflects joint purposes of the OL-ECB and the LAC. The OL-ECB TIG and the Local Affiliate …
I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Last week, I wrote about 25 low-cost/no-cost tech tools for Data Visualization and Reporting. Here’s a bit more about one of them. Rad Resource – Fiverr: On fiverr, people list things that they will do for $5. Lots of it …
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My name is Holly Lewandowski. I am the owner of Evaluation for Change, Inc. a consulting firm that specializes in program evaluation, grant writing, and research for nonprofits, state agencies, and universities. I worked as an internal evaluator for nonprofits for ten years prior to starting my business four years ago. There have been some …
My name is Mimi Doll, the owner of Candeo Consulting, Inc., an independent consulting firm that builds organizations’ capacity to create meaningful change in the communities they serve. Sometimes we can prevent scope creep with good planning, other times no matter how good our preparation is, clients either don’t have a clear sense of what …
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