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Propensity Score Matching: Maybe More Than Just a Means to an End by Jason Torres Altman

Greetings, this is Jason Torres Altman from the TerraLuna Collaborative writing today about turning to publicly available data and propensity score matching to further our evaluative goals in the analysis of Public Value I wrote about in June with two programming partners. In that post, we described how a statewide AmeriCorps program provided tutoring to elementary students and desired to be able to articulate its value to entire communities, beyond just the students and members actively engaged in the program.

SIM TIG Week: Evaluating the Return on Investment of Social Inclusion by Ben Fowler and Erin Markel

Hi, we are Ben Fowler and Erin Markel, CEO and Chief Growth Officer respectively at MarketShare Associates (MSA), a global social impact consulting company. There is growing recognition of the private sector’s enormous potential to create (as well as to threaten) social impact.  However, a range of issues have traditionally challenged the ability of those …

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SIM TIG Week: Engaging Founders and Teams with Impact Management and Measurement (IMM) by Daniel Brandão

Hi. I’m Daniel Brandão, an evaluator who has recently joined Vox Capital – a Brazilian impact investing asset manager with a strong background on Venture Capital to early-stage startups – as Impact Director. My current challenge is to bring my evaluation expertise based on grant transactions to investments oriented to delivering positive impact alongside a …

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LAWG Week: Evaluating for Public Value: Making Service Count by Ronjanett Taylor, Sondra Collins, and Jason Torres Altman

Greetings, AEA365 readers! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. To whet our appetites for this year’s conference in beautiful New Orleans, this week’s posts come to us from the feature the perspectives of the Gulf Coast Eval Network (GCEval) members, where the uniqueness of doing evaluation in the gulf south will be on …

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LAWG Week: Expanding the Qualitative Toolkit: Skills Adopted from the Helping Fields by Jenna LaChenaye and Shannon McCarthy

Greetings, AEA365 readers! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. To whet our appetites for this year’s conference in beautiful New Orleans, this week’s posts come to us from the feature the perspectives of the Gulf Coast Eval Network (GCEval) members, where the uniqueness of doing evaluation in the gulf south will be on …

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LGBT TIG Week: Intersectionality in Practice by Michael G. Curtis

Hi all! My name is Michael Curtis (he/him), and I’m speaking (kind of) to you from the Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT) team at Northwestern University. During 2020’s LGBT TIG week, my colleagues at EDIT wrote a piece focused on how important it was for evaluators to engage with the concept of intersectionality actively …

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ICCE TIG Week: Ensuring Child Rights in Program Evaluation by Dawn Pauls

Hello! I’m Dawn Pauls, a program evaluator living in Saint Paul, MN.  This blog post is adapted from my final paper in a recent course in International Development Program Evaluation at the University of Minnesota. Designing innovative evaluation methods for determining to what extent the world’s most vulnerable children are assured of their human rights could help …

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Needs Assessment TIG Week: Five Must Read Articles on Needs Assessment by Ryan Watkins

I’m Ryan Watkins, Professor at George Washington University. Today’s article is a re-post, with updated links, of a 2012 AEA365 post. Lessons Learned: Get familiar with needs assessment literature. Even if you only occasionally conduct needs assessments, it is important to be aware of the research literature that supports your theories, processes, and tools. I’ve …

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Needs Assessment TIG Week: The Needs Assessment and Asset/Capacity Building Hybrid Model by Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung

Hi, I am Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, Director of Evaluation and Assessment at the Center on Health Disparities, Virginia Commonwealth University. I will briefly summarize key points of the needs assessment (NA) and asset/capacity building (A/CB) hybrid model. NA and A/CB are two different, oppositional schools of thought. In 2014 Altschuld and colleagues noted a new …

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