I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. Today is a big day. Well actually, yesterday was a big day, but right now is the morning after when we get to reflect on a night to remember. We frittered away the evening, sharing and chatting away the hours until …
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Hello, my name is Nicole MartinRogers. I am the Survey Research Manager at Wilder Research, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Wilder Research manages projects that range from small evaluations for local nonprofits to multiyear statewide evaluations of complex interventions. Hot tip: Project management (the discipline) offers great tools that will help keep your projects on track, …
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Mary Anne Casey here. I’m a Minnesota-based consultant who helps people plan and evaluate programs. I’ve also done some writing and teaching on qualitative methods, particularly focus groups. Are you on the lookout for ways to make your presentations more memorable and meaningful? Rad Resource: Chip and Dan Heath’s book, Made to Stick, is jam-packed …
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Hello. I’m Craig Helmstetter, a Senior Research Manager at Wilder Research, a division of the Amherst Wilder Foundation in Saint Paul, Minnesota (right across the Mississippi from Minneapolis). Remember that quartet that was playing as the Titanic sank? How good were they? If your answer was “Who cares?!! The ship was sinking!!”, then you probably …
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My name is Sarah Sevcik and I serve as the Program Committee Chair on the board of the Minnesota Evaluation Association. Our chapter hosts 5 events per year for our members, and I’m here to share some lessons learned about planning and hosting events and working with a program committee. Lesson Learned: Multiple Program Announcements …
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My name is Susan Keskinen. I work for Ramsey County (Minnesota) Community Human Services as a Senior Program Evaluator. My evaluation projects are related to adult services and to employment related services provided to Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) participants, Minnesota’s version of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. I am also the …
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Hi, I am Leah Goldstein Moses, current President of the Minnesota Evaluation Association (MNEA) and founder of the Improve Group. In both roles, relationships are very important—to both our success and joy. How do you cultivate relationships that energize and support you – and allow you to give in return? Hot tip 1: Find a …
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I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and regularly aea365 Saturday contributor. AEA has a few major milestones each year and one is coming up this Friday, March 16 – the deadline for proposal submissions for Evaluation 2012, our annual conference. Evaluation 2012 will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from October 24-27. …
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My name is Rob Shumer and I work at the University of Minnesota. I’ve taught a few courses on participatory evaluation, some which focus on youth led evaluation. I am currently involved with a few projects that engage youth in evaluation of their school programs. Most youth participatory evaluation happens through programs that occur after …
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Greetings! I’m Shep Zeldin and I am a professor in the Civil Society and Community Research Graduate Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and I’m Jane Powers from the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell University. We are engaged in a long term project to promote and support youth-adult partnerships (Y-AP) in organizational and …
