My name is Phil Levine and I’m a full-time statistician in search of things that make me laugh, because a lot of my work just isn’t funny and there is research that shows that laughing will make me live longer. The Genuine Evaluation Blog (always a good read) regularly posts “The Friday Funny” (always a …
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My name is Harold Sharpman and while I am an experienced evaluator, my work had been in the private sector and I am not familiar with being part of the granting process – from applying to participating on a grant as an evaluator. I hope to work more with foundations evaluating their grantmaking and in …
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I am Efrain Gutierrez and I work for FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm that helps foundations, nonprofits and corporations increase their social impact. Before working for FSG I worked for the US Consulate in Guadalajara Mexico where I experienced a lot interaction between Mexicans and Americans. My work at the consulate helped me discover and …
Greetings! I’m Robin Kipke and I work for the Center for Evaluation and Research at the University of California, Davis, which provides evaluation training and technical assistance to the 100+ projects which advocate for tobacco control policies in our state. To help these organizations discern how to effectively harness the power of social media, I’m …
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Hello! We are Katrina Brewsaugh, and Stephen Brehm. We are the Data Team at One Hope United, an agency providing a wide range of child and family services in Illinois, Missouri, and Florida. Evaluators are often tasked with measuring how a program is meeting performance measures and making recommendations on whether programs that are not …
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I’m Naomi Walsh and I am a novice consultant. One of the challenges of breaking into consulting is presenting yourself as a professional. One way that I do this is to share timelines for projects that I am working on – they show that I am organized and prepared, and provide a visual planning aid …
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If it is Saturday, it must be Susan. I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. Today’s post is a call to action. Hot Tip – aea365 is seeking contributors: Yes! We’re looking for aea365 authors to fill the new year with great content spanning the …
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I’m Shelby First, an overworked, underpaid, totally exhausted, happy with my life, graduate student. This is a companion piece to the one written by John VanDyke earlier this week, John wrote about Lifehacker, Zenhabits, and MakeUseOf – three of my favorite sites for hacking your life by finding those little efficiencies and tools that make …
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Greetings everyone! I am Denise Roseland, an independent consultant with Minneapolis-based Social Venture Research & Evaluation. I have moved five times in four years and the benefit of working as a consultant is that my work moves with me. While many of my clients were once in my backyard, the many moves mean we are …
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My name is Josey Landrieu, Assistant Professor in Program Evaluation at the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development. One of the things I enjoy the most about my work is the opportunity to collaborate with external partners in research and evaluation projects. Liliana Rodriguez-Campos (2005) defines collaborative evaluation as “an evaluation in which there …
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