Hello! We’re Chris Lovato, Professor in the School of Population & Public Health at the University of British Columbia, and Kylie Hutchinson, independent evaluation consultant with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. 

Are you an internal evaluator looking to get more evaluation buy-in from senior leaders? Or do you have a manager you’d like to better educate about evaluation?

Hello! My name is Rhonda Williams, PhD., and I am the Director of Impact & Evaluation for Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas in Dallas. In this new role, I lead a small team working across the organization, focusing on the impact and evaluation of many programs and various strategic initiatives. As someone still growing in this field, I still search for tips and advice from others to improve my professional knowledge and skills. Here is an older post I developed in my first evaluation role; now, I want to add some tips for a new organization.

Hi, my name is Lenka Berkowitz (she/her) and I’m an Evaluation Manager for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a national nonprofit that works with the school community to promote healthy environments for young people. I’d like to talk to you about virtual meetings that we have in our evaluation (and other) work and what I believe can set a good meeting apart from the rest – the beginning. This is not a blog post about how to run a good meeting but about how to use the first 5-10 minutes to connect with the rest of the meeting participants and why that matters.

Hello! I’m Rafiqah Mustafaa, PhD., and I serve as the Assistant Director of Learning and Improvement at the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). In this blog, I detail how our internal evaluation team (Dr. Ally Skoog-Hoffman, our Senior Director, Research and Learning, and I) has prioritized strengthening our organization’s learning culture and evaluation capacity so we can effectively conduct internal evaluation.

Welcome to the AEA365 Internal Evaluation (IE) week! I’m Boris Volkov, the IE TIG Chair, working as the Director of Monitoring & Evaluation at the Clinical and Translational Science Institute and a faculty at the Institute for Health Informatics and the School of Public Health of the University of Minnesota. During this week, our evaluation colleagues from around the country will share their tips and lessons learned related to internal evaluation (IE) and beyond.