Hi! My name is Monique Liston, Chief Strategic Officer at Ubuntu Research and Evaluation. I am a race liberation strategist and evaluator based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Hi, I am Jara Dean-Coffey, founder of Luminare Group and The Equitable Evaluation Initiative, and an AEA board member. Thinking about how to deal with push back in social-justice-oriented evaluation takes me back to the beginning of my career.
Greetings good people, Geri Peak here. I work to transform ‘selves and systems, countering racism through evaluation, training, facilitation and arts integrated learning with a collaborative of professionals in Baltimore and Beyond.
Hi, we are Heather Esper and Yaquta Fatehi from the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI) and Ben Fowler from MarketShare Associates (MSA). Gender-lens investing deploys capital in women-owned, -led, and -forward companies and gender integration into business functions and has many documented benefits: However, these benefits come with a price tag, whether through technical …
Hi, I’m Allison Ricket from Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service and I am here to tell you about the work I am doing to on behalf of Social Value US to develop a Body of Knowledge (BoK) for the field of Impact Measurement and Management (IMM). I have begun a collaborative, cross-disciplinary …
Hi everyone! I’m Laura Budzyna, and I’m an impact measurement and management (IMM) consultant and communications lead at AEA’s Social Impact Measurement TIG. Today, I’m writing in the afterglow of the Mission Investors Exchange 2022 National Conference, a biennial gathering of impact investors in philanthropy, to share a dispatch with the evaluation community. IMM had …
Hi, I am Daniel Brandão, impact director at Vox Capital, the first Brazilian impact asset manager. We hold U$150 million in assets under management and our goal is to offer financial returns to our clients alongside positive impact for people and the planet. In the IMM sessions during the NOLA´s AEA conference, a question was …
My name is John Gargani. I’m a former AEA President, and I have a deep interest in how impact investors, social entrepreneurs, and other new actors measure their impact. At Evaluation 2022, I introduced the idea of Zones of Greater Scrutiny, or ZOGS, to help evaluators defend against impact washing. In this post, I describe …
Hi! I’m Courtney Bolinson, evaluation consultant and founder of Head and Heart Evaluation. During the AEA conference in New Orleans this past November, I helped evaluators gain an understanding of the corporate context and where it overlaps with evaluation via a teaching case. The teaching case described a fictional consultancy where evaluator Eva Lee is …
Hi, I am Andrea Azevedo, a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) practitioner who very recently moved from leading MEL in the social justice sector to the brave new world of impact management and measurement (IMM) for impact investments with Soros Economic Development Fund. In this blog, I want to share three questions with MEL practitioners …
