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Assumptions about Adult Learning that Every Evaluator Should Know by Elizabeth DiLuzio

1 Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / March 25, 2022

Hello, AEA365 community! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. This week is Individuals Week, which means we take a break from our themed weeks and spotlight the Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources and Lessons Learned from any evaluator interested in sharing. Would you like to contribute to future individuals weeks? Email me …

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OL-ECB TIG Week: Must We Call It ‘Evaluation’? – How ‘M&E’ Language Can be a Barrier to Institutionalising Learning by Barbara Klugman

4 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / December 20, 2021

Hello, I am Barbara Klugman (PhD), based in South Africa, once an anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, now providing freelance strategy and evaluation supports for social justice funders, networks and NGOs. I work with groups engaged in organising and advocating for social or environmental justice. In this process, I have come to realise that sometimes …

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ToE TIG Week: Amplifying Youth Voice through Focus Group Instruction by Hilary Loeb

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / December 22, 2021

My name is Hilary Loeb, and I work for the Strategy, Evaluation and Learning Department for the Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD).  I have been engaged in teaching evaluation to a range of interns in high school, college, and graduate school for over ten years in public and nonprofit organizations.  I thoroughly enjoy involving …

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DUP TIG Week: Inclusive Evaluation Design – Equitable Use by June Gothberg and Caitlyn Bukaty

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / December 8, 2021

Welcome to a week focused on Inclusive Evaluation Design hosted by the Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations Topical Interest Group (TIG). We are June Gothberg and Caitlyn Bukaty, the chairs of the TIG. Our TIG is made up of evaluators who are passionate about increasing the inclusion of all people in program evaluation including diverse populations …

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Internal Eval TIG Week: Internal Evaluation as a Catalyst for Cross-Program Collaboration by Amber Kraft, Melissa Schwarz, and Lindsay Zeman

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / November 14, 2021

Hi everyone, we are Amber Kraft, Melissa Schwarz, and Lindsay Zeman. We are internal evaluators at Access Community Health Network (ACCESS) in Chicago, IL. In Fall 2020, we completed an evaluation project to help program managers at ACCESS learn how the pandemic had impacted their programs. This was the first time an evaluation activity had …

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Use Community-Engaged Research to Create Change From Bottom Up by Sylvia Pu

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 3, 2021

Hello! My name is Sylvia Pu. I am a researcher and strategist, and I help mission-driven organizations assess the big-picture impact of their work and focus more on their high-impact activities. I am the principal consultant of Sylvia Pu Consulting. Today, I will introduce you to the unique research design of community-engaged research (CEnR) and …

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Transformative Leadership Fellowships Need Transformative Evaluation Approaches by Barbara Klugman

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 22, 2021

Hi, my name is Barbara Klugman. I offer strategy and evaluation support and facilitate a number of peer learning initiatives in support of network, funder and NGO social justice efforts. From 2017-2019, I was the developmental evaluator for the ‘incubation’ of Tekano: Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity and in 2020 I both facilitated a peer …

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Decolonizing Evaluation Week: Decolonizing Evaluation: It Starts with Examining the Paradigm by Susan M. Wolfe

2 Comments / Uncategorized / October 3, 2021

I am Susan Wolfe of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC. I am a community psychologist. My evaluation portfolio includes evaluating initiatives to reduce health and educational inequities rooted in systemic racism. Reducing inequities and systemic racism requires decolonizing white-supremacy based practices, including evaluation practices. My work requires a deep dive into my own place of …

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NA TIG Week: Lessons Learnt from Participatory Needs Assessment and Asset Mapping with Youth by Madhawa Palihapitiya

2 Comments / Needs Assessment / October 7, 2021

Greetings! I am Madhawa “Mads” Palihapitiya, an evaluator from UMass Boston. I have been using participatory approaches to needs assessment and asset mapping with youth for a while now. I have been evaluating The Youth Conflict Resolution & Restorative Practices Program administered by Massachusetts’ statutory state dispute resolution office (MOPC) for the past eight years. …

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NA TIG Week: Just-in-Time Community Engaged Needs Assessment: Driving Action by Lisle Hites

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / October 7, 2021

Welcome to the Needs Assessment TIG’s week on AEA 365! I’m Lisle Hites, Chair of the Needs Assessment TIG and Associate Professor in Community Medicine and Population Health at the University of Alabama. On behalf of all of us in the Needs Assessment TIG, I hope you’ll enjoy this week’s blog entries and we look …

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