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IE Week: Rahel Wasserfall on The Power of the Dissonant Story

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / June 26, 2012 May 25, 2012

My name is Rahel Wasserfall. I am an internal evaluator and do program development for the International Summer School on Religion in the Public Life (ISSRPL). I’m also affiliated with the Women Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and use mostly qualitative methods, including participant observation and in-depth interviews. As an evaluator with nine years …

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AZENet Week: Kori Kanayama on Using Business Model Assessment to Approach Organizational Sustainability

Hello, my name is Kori Kanayama of Kaoru Kanayama Consulting. I’m going to share an approach to assessing a nonprofit organization’s profitability and mission impact as a springboard to organizational sustainability. I presented this assessment methodology at the Spring AZENet conference. This methodology can be done by nonprofit leaders, and by internal or external evaluators. …

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CPE Week: Beverly Tremain Empowerment Evaluation: Useful Tools and Resources

4 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / June 6, 2012 June 5, 2012

I am Beverly Tremain, President and Owner of Public Health Consulting, a research, evaluation, and quality improvement service organization. David Fetterman and I use an empowerment evaluation approach in tobacco prevention programs, specifically helping the Minority Initiative Grant Office (MISGRO) and tobacco prevention non-profits in counties throughout the State of Arkansas. In all of my …

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WE Week: Eric Abdullateef on Using Online Search to Rapidly Assess Public’s View of Your Programs

1 Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / May 16, 2012 May 17, 2012

I’m Eric Abdullateef. I enable evaluation at USAID and facilitate interagency responses to complex crises in developing countries where the U.S. has strategic interests. Reshaping public understanding about our initiative is a growing part of my portfolio. When a public opinion poll is out of the question and a general pulse of how average citizens …

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Dawn Henderson on Consider Telling a Story

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Teaching of Evaluation / April 30, 2012 March 23, 2012

Hello, I am Dawn Henderson, a doctoral student pursuing a community psychology concentration in the Psychology in the Public Interest program at North Carolina State University. In a faraway land, and maybe for some, right in the backyard we are involved in evaluation work with non-profit organizations. If you are like me, then this experience …

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NA Week: Ryan Watkins on Overcoming Five Obstacles to a Successful Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / April 12, 2012 April 6, 2012

I’m Ryan Watkins and I am an associate professor at George Washington University. Among other things, I maintain the needs assessment website www.gapsinresults.com – which collects many needs assessment resources for you. I’m writing today about five needs assessment obstacles and tips to overcome them. Lessons Learned: 1st Obstacle: “We need …” Unfortunately, needs assessment …

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NA Week: Maurya West Meiers on Planning and Managing Your Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / April 10, 2012 March 24, 2012

My name is Maurya West Meiers and I work at the World Bank as an Evaluation Officer. I’m writing to share information from our book on planning for and managing your needs assessment. Lessons Learned – Use checklists: Don’t underestimate the power and usefulness of checklists. Airline pilots are required to use them. Many surgeons …

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NA Week: Ryan Watkins on Five Must Read Articles on Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / April 8, 2012 April 9, 2012

I’m Ryan Watkins, an Associate Professor at George Washington University. Lessons Learned: Get familiar with needs assessment literature Even if you only occasionally conduct needs assessments, it is important to be aware of the research literature that supports your theories, processes, and tools. I’ve summarized five “classic” articles on needs assessment that should be on …

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June Gothberg on Using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) Software

13 Comments / Community Psychology, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Qualitative Methods, Social Network Analysis / April 6, 2012 May 4, 2017

Greetings, I am June Gothberg, Lead Curator for aea365 and Research Associate at Western Michigan University. As Lead Curator, I am always looking for ways to expand the knowledge of evaluators through hot tips, cool tricks, lessons learned, and rad resources. While working on my dissertation, I made a great find and thought I would …

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Stacy Johnson, Jill Lipski Cain and Liz Radel Freeman on Community Mapping

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology, Health Evaluation / April 1, 2012 March 5, 2012

We are Stacy Johnson, Jill Lipski Cain, and Liz Radel Freeman from the Improve Group in Saint Paul, MN. The Improve Group works with organizations to make the most of information, navigate complexity and ensure their investments of time and money lead to meaningful, sustained impact. Last November at Evaluation 2011, we presented on a …

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