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CD TIG Week: Evaluation in Partnership with Communities by Audrey Jordan and Tom Kelly

We are Audrey Jordan (evaluation consultant and executive life coach in Southern California at  audreyjordan2012@gmail.com) and Tom Kelly (VP Knowledge, Evaluation & Learning at Hawai‘i Community Foundation at tkelly@hcf-hawaii.org) and we used to work together helping create local learning partnerships of evaluators and community residents in cities across the US as part of a 10-year, …

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CEA Affiliate Week: Committing to Building Local Evaluation Capacity for International Projects by Casey Solomon-Filer

Hello everyone. My name is Casey Solomon-Filer and I am an evaluation consultant in the Chicago area with a background in international development. Working as a project assistant outside of the US, I was drawn to evaluation as a method of shifting the power of decision-making from international funders to local communities. Over the past …

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Evaluation: Everything Changes by Tom Grayson

Hello Evaluators!  I’m Tom Grayson, former member of the AEA Board of Directors, retired as Director of Evaluation in Student Affairs at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Currently, I am an evaluation practitioner, consultant and facilitator. The jazz singer and song writer, Benard Ighner, composed, “Everything must change”. The opening lyrics are, “Everything must …

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Putting values into evaluative practice – Part II by Alison Miranda

I’m Alison Miranda, Senior Learning Officer with global transparency and accountable governance funder collaborative Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI). Inspired by conversations at recent convenings of the European Evaluation Society (EES) and the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) researcher-practitioner network, I share below tips and examples that might help evaluation practitioners and commissioners put …

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Understanding values in evaluation – Part I by Alison Miranda

I’m Alison Miranda, Senior Learning Officer with the global transparency and accountable governance funder collaborative Transparency and Accountability Initiative. Conversations among global experts at recent convenings of the European Evaluation Society (EES) and the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) researcher-practitioner network grappled with placing values in evaluative practice. Rad Resources: For those who may …

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CP TIG Week: Evaluation as Social Intervention by Jeff Sheldon

I’m Jeff Sheldon, 2018 Chair of the Community Psychology TIG.  Today I want to discuss why I view evaluation as a social intervention in keeping with the principles of community psychology and with our 2018 conference theme, Speaking Truth to Power. It is my contention that evaluation’s best present use is as a social intervention.  …

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Top 10 Considerations for Evaluation Capacity Building in Organizations (2/2) by Scott Chaplowe

My name is Scott Chaplowe and I currently work as the Director of Evidence, Measurement and Evaluation for climate at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). As an evaluation professional, much of my work is not simply doing evaluation, but building the capacity of others to practice, manage, support and/or use evaluation. Hot Tips: Beyond …

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PFE Week: Principles-Focused Evaluation by Michael Quinn Patton

My name is Michael Quinn Patton, author of Principles-Focused Evaluation: The GUIDE.  Principles-based initiatives, including programs, projects, collaborations, and change efforts of all kinds, base what they do and why they do it on guiding principles. Examples: Build mutually respectful relationships Engage in trauma-informed care Act collaboratively Principles inform and guide decisions and choices.  Principles-driven …

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IPE TIG Week: Transformative Framework as a Paradigm for Indigenous Community Evaluation by Jeremy Braithwaite

Greetings, fellow AEAers! I’m Jeremy Braithwaite, PhD, community evaluator and AEA enthusiast. Like many of us, my evaluation training was very much discipline-based and skewed heavily toward quantitative approaches. Randomized control trials and statistical models were the gold standards of evidence. Conversations about ethics were usually confined to the pages of IRB applications. Methodologies were …

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NPF TIG Week: Making Values Part of a Foundation’s Evaluation Process by Kelly Hannum, Jara Dean-Coffey & Jill Casey

Greetings! We are Kelly Hannum, Jara Dean-Coffey, and Jill Casey and as part of the Luminare Group we offer strategy and evaluation services and we regularly work with foundations. Evaluation is part of the work to advance the aims of foundations. Ideally evaluation is part of and flows from a foundation’s strategy. Evaluation provides the …

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