Greetings everyone! Corey Newhouse here, Founder and Principal of Public Profit – a consulting firm helping mission-driven organizations measure and manage what matters. Have you ever toiled for hours on a data-heavy report, only to hear back from a client that it doesn’t look or feel quite right? Maybe they missed your point entirely? As …
Hello! I am Jennifer Obinna, Ph.D., M.S.S.W., and I lead evaluation teams at The Improve Group, a research and evaluation consulting firm in St. Paul, Minnesota. Whether I am leading an internal team that reports to me or a collaborative team with clients and community partners, I look for ways to share power so that …
Evaluation Teams Week: What’s your (leadership) style? by Jennifer Obinna Read More »
Hello, my name is David McKay and I am a senior evaluator at Kentucky University’s Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service. We help to improve lifelong opportunities and services for individuals with disabilities, their families, and the community. Our evaluation team works on a variety of projects, the number of which …
Evaluation Teams Week: How to make teamwork “work” by David McKay Read More »
Hi from Jane Fields and Tim Sheldon, Research Associates at the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI) at the University of Minnesota. CAREI is an independent research and evaluation center in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) at the University of Minnesota. As part of our work at CAREI, we serve …
Aligning concepts and language demystifies evaluation by Jane Fields and Tim Sheldon Read More »
Hi there! I’m Liz Zadnik, member of the aea365 curating team and Saturday contributor. I don’t know about you, but summer has started here on the East Coast of the United States and I could not be more excited. I’m ready for some sun and time on the beach! We all have our vacation rituals …
Finding inspiration from podcast hosts and new formats by Liz Zadnik Read More »
Happy Saturday all! Liz Zadnik here, aea365 Outreach Coordinator and sometime Saturday contributor. Summer has arrived on the East Coast of the United States. For me, summer has always encouraged me to check in with myself and take some time to reorganize and recalibrate. Like time slows down a little and I have few more …
How mindful language helps us challenge power imbalances by Liz Zadnik Read More »
Hi! I am Susy Hawes from the University of Southern Maine’s Data Innovation Project (DIP). Part of the DIP’s work is providing free technical assistance to local nonprofits around a data issue. Even though the majority of nonprofits do not believe our time together should be spent around a logic model (because we have been …
Finding the joy in logic models by Susy Hawes Read More »
Hey everyone! I’m Echo Rivera, owner of Creative Research Communications and research associate at Center for Policy Research. My passion is helping evaluators bring creativity to the research communication process. Today I want to talk about your presentation design workflow. Let me ask you something: does the process of making a presentation stress you out? …
Create an efficient presentation design workflow by Echo Rivera Read More »
Hi! I’m Kristin Lindell and I work on the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) workstream as a part of USAID’s Learning and Knowledge Management contract (LEARN). LEARN helps USAID and implementing partners integrate systematic and intentional collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) into their work to improve development outcomes. In service to supporting USAID and …
ICCE TIG Week: Reflecting and Learning for Better Development Results by Kristin Lindell Read More »
Happy Saturday, folks! I’m Liz Zadnik, aea365’s Outreach Coordinator. I live in the Mid-Atlantic region of the country and was snowed in a few weeks ago. The storm wasn’t as bad as it could have been (for us…thankfully), but I had a chance to spend some time catching up on my reading resolution. Rad …
Reflections from a snowy day indoors by Liz Zadnik Read More »
