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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Greetings! I am Tania Rempert, a Research Associate at University of Illinois, Champaign. This post is written together with my colleagues Leanne Kallemeyn, David Ensminger, and Megan Polanin from Loyola University in Chicago. We would like to share our preliminary findings of a case study examining evaluation coaching activities that have taken place at the …
Greetings from the University of Chicago. I am Sarah Rand, Associate Project Director and Research and Evaluation Associate at the Center for Elementary Math and Science Education (CEMSE). A challenge for every evaluator is to present findings in informative way that will be useful to the client. This summer our team evaluated Google’s computer science …
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Greetings! My name is Shana Alford and I am an internal program evaluator at ACCESS Community Health Network, a 501 (c) federally qualified health center network of more than 40 health centers in under-served communities within the City of Chicago. As an internal evaluator, I objectively analyze how federally funded community health programs are implemented …
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Welcome to the Chicagoland Evaluation Association’s (CEA) week of AEA 365. My name is Leah Christina Neubauer and I am the President of CEA. CEA has organized a stimulating week of posts that address the evaluation-related work of our members. As the lead post for the week, I offer insights and resources related to the …
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I am Susan Kistler, the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and the owner of iMeasureMedia. I usually don’t mention the latter on aea365, but today I want to be clear that I’m wearing my iMeasureMedia hat since AEA does not endorse particular products or services. Last week, at Evaluation 2012, I gave a …
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Hello! We’re Judy Savageau and Laura Sefton from the Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. We evaluators have in our minds all the steps required to complete each project, yet we must also consider quality improvement in our work as we think about our methodologies internally and …
I’m Marybeth Neal, I am a cultural anthropologist that uses ethnographic methods to engage stakeholders in creating their own ongoing systems of evaluation. This summer I had the absolutely delightful experience working with a brilliant group of teens and young adults who train both youth and adult members of social change organizations on how to …
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My name is Stella SiWan Zimmerman and I am the President of ACET Inc., an evaluation firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I’ve been asked to contribute to a blog on Halloween. What a great opportunity to focus on techniques evaluators can use to take the fear out of the evaluation process. The following tips can …
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Hello, we are Greg Lestikow, CEO and Fatima Frank, Project Manager of evalû, a small consulting firm that focuses exclusively on rigorous evaluations of social and economic development initiatives. We champion impact evaluation that maintains academic rigor but is based entirely on our clients’ need to improve strategic and operational effectiveness and increase profitability. We …
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