Hello AEA 365 Readers! We are Kurt and Aaron, independent evaluation consultants with Effect X LLC. Our experience includes international and cross-cultural evaluations and capacity building projects around the world for organizations such as UNICEF, The World Food Program, The World Bank, Compassion International, Heifer International and The Carter Center. For those new to the …
Hi! We’re Thomaz Chianca and Jane Davidson. We have been collaborating over the past several years to help organizations use evaluation to drive and learn from systems transformation that addresses both equity and environmental sustainability. It is challenging to evaluate change efforts that have closed out several years earlier – especially when the evidence is …
We are excited to share some useful tips for creating visually appealing findings reports for federal clients. Allow us to introduce the team—Jessie Rouder, Alyssa Contreras, Samantha Hubbard, Chloe Bryen, Michelle Segall, and Cindy Hockaday are based in ICF’s Public Health Solutions portfolio. In late 2022, the team supported the creation of several reports to disseminate key …
Hello! I’m Amelia Kohm of Data Viz for Nonprofits (DVN). DVN helps organizations to quickly grasp their data, improve their work, and show their impact and offers up weekly 60-Second Data Tips to those in the nonprofit world. Rad Resources Have you played around with charts in Canva? It’s a great, free online design tool. …
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Hello! My name is Christy King. I am the Internal Evaluator for Pennsylvania’s State GEAR UP grant. Since I began working on the grant almost 8 years ago, one of my endeavors has been to provide data visualizations that are useful to a variety of roles. One aspect of this endeavor is being open to …
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Hello AEA365 community! I am Zoraya Cruz-Bonilla. I work as a Data Research Analyst in the Division of Student Affairs at Binghamton University. If you have ever had the privilege of performing text analytics with open-source PDF files, then you understand the innate challenges – they are not standardized for easy extraction. In fact, a simple copy/paste can lead to more tedious manual steps in order to maintain structural integrity.
Hello! We are Morgan Buras-Finlay and Caitlyn Bukaty. I, Caitlyn, have served as a leader of the AEA Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations (DUP) TIG for many years and work as a research associate at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston. I, Morgan, am an evaluator and researcher, and also identify as hard of …
Hello! I’m Alva Gachupin, evaluation and research coordinator at the Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation. Located on the lands of Santa Ana Pueblo N.M, NB3 Foundation is a Native-led nonprofit leading the way to improve Native American children’s health. The NB3 Foundation invests in community-driven, culturally rooted programs that provide opportunities for Native youth to …
Hi, we are Dr. Nicole Bowman (Lunaape/Mohican), Policy Chair, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, American Evaluation Association; Editor, Roots and Relations, Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation; and Board Member, International Evaluation Academy and Dr. Jeremy Braithwaite, Communications Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, American Evaluation Association; Tribal Research Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute; Co-Founder, EvaluACT. Colonial …
Greetings AEA365 readers. I’m Linda Cabral from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Many evaluations that I’ve been a part of in my 15+ year career have required a review of existing program documents. This has involved a range of documents such as program descriptions, meeting minutes, proposals and grantee reports. There can be many purposes to performing a document review. Often, it can provide you the background necessary to formulate your primary data collection tools. Other times, document review can be your sole data collection method when your evaluation only requires descriptive information such as number and type of sites or a description of participants and program costs. Funders appreciate this data collection method because it does not pose a burden to program staff as the data already exists. Regardless of the main purpose of your document review, I’ve found it helpful to be able to approach this type of review in a systematic way.
