I’m Maryfrances Porter, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of Partnerships for Strategic Impact and developer of the ImpactStory Strategy, a straightforward, sustainable structure for nonprofit storytelling. For 20+ years I have worked with small- to medium-sized nonprofits (~$500K – $3M) – and their funders – to tell powerful impact stories that move people to action. There …
Greetings! I’m Bernadette Wright, AEA365 Coordinator for the Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG). Welcome to Nonprofits and Foundations TIG Week on AEA365! This week’s posts focus on the theme, storytelling in/with nonprofit organizations or foundations. This theme is inspired by the Evaluation203 theme, “The Power of Story.” The next six posts share …
I’m Elizabeth Winchester (she/her) from the Social Research and Evaluation Center at Louisiana State University. I’ve been a research associate working with non-profits, foundations, federal, state, and local agencies for over 20 years creating data collection and evaluation plans. For today’s University-Based Center TIG week post, I want to share my thoughts on working with agencies who …
Hello, everyone, from part of our team at the University of Mississippi (UM) Center for Research Evaluation (CERE)— Olivia Melvin, evaluation associate and (semi-)recent graduate of UM; and Anna Kang, current undergraduate student worker majoring in exercise science. CERE is a university-based center at UM. We are not student-facing, nor do we have a degree/certificate …
My name is Brad Watts, and I am a seasoned evaluator with a career background that includes positions at two different university-based centers. Currently, I serve as the Assistant Director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University (WMU) and the co-program chair for the University-Based Centers (UBC) TIG. As The Evaluation Center begins its …
Greetings! My name is Adrian Neely. I am a Research Associate at the HBCU STEM US Center at Morehouse College. The mission of our center is to promote undergraduate success and retention of students majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines. Our center includes STEM programs and interventions to support undergraduate student success …
Hi, we are Cathy Hearn, Vicki Bigelow, and Nate Phipps of the University of Michigan Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER). Here we share our model for creating a supportive, authentic learning environment for new and emerging evaluators. A version of this blog post was first presented at the 2022 American Evaluation Association …
Hello everyone! We are Miriam Jacobson and Natashia Bibriescas with the Expanding Pathways in Computing (EPIC) STEM Evaluation Services team at The University of Texas at Austin. As university-based evaluators, we work with researchers and educators to study computer science (CS) education through evaluation, research, and data analytics. This year we were part of a …
Hi, we are Sam Robison, Associate Professor of Research at the Social Research and Evaluation Center (SREC) at Louisiana State University, and Joey Rutherford, Associate Director of the Center for Research Evaluation (CERE) at the University of Mississippi. We, along with Sarah Mason (from CERE) and Eden Kyse from Montclair State’s Center for Research and …
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Hi! We are Liz Litzler, Erin Carll, and Emily Knaphus-Soran from the University of Washington Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity. In honor of next week being University-Based Center TIG Week, today, we would like to share a little about how we center equity in our work as a University-Based Center. As a center that is focused on conducting high quality program evaluation and research to improve equity and broaden representation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fields, we feel like we are always thinking about equity- both in how we do our work and how we operate the center.
