Hello everyone! I am Rita Sinorita Fierro, editor of this AEA365 week, sharing collective work in our evaluation field. No one transforms in isolation. Reading books and learning new vocabulary is great, but not enough. Personal and collective work transforms ourselves, our communities, and our world. We authors focus not only on what we do …
Lymari Benitez of Pace Center for Girls here, with my coauthor Katie Smith Milway of MilwayPLUS social impact advisors. Through our experience and research across 15 nonprofits and evaluation experts committed to blending feedback measures with empirical evidence, we are learning that feedback not only helps us improve programs, but also influences participant engagement and …
My name is Brittany Schulman, and I’m the Vice President of Indigenous Leadership & Educational Programs at Native Americans in Philanthropy. As an enrolled citizen of the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe, a traditional storyteller, and a results-driven educator, I’m committed to ensuring that Indigenous values are not only included but at the forefront in every conversation. …
Hi! We are Kerry Thompson, Inclusion & Accessibility Development Manager, and Melanie Kawano-Chiu, Director of Learning & Evaluation, at the Disability Rights Fund/ Disability Rights Advocacy Fund (DRF/DRAF). We’re data geeks – and so much more. I, Kerry, am a woman with the most marginalized disability in the world. And, I, Melanie, am a mom …
Greetings evaluators, my name is Melisa Sanmiguel, and I am the information lead at Kuja Kuja, a real-time feedback and accountability system that amplifies communities’ ideas and empowers active participation in the design and implementation of humanitarian services. Since 2016, Kuja Kuja has actively listened to over 2.2 million members of vulnerable communities in seven …
Hello, we are Dina Wilderson (Director of Learning & Evidence at REDF), Pablo Gaxiola (Director of Reintegration Programs at Goodwill of Silicon Valley), and Jennifer Laird (Senior Researcher at RTI). We’re here today to talk about an evaluation project we collaborated on that included participant feedback as a core component. Our three organizations, in addition …
Hi. I’m Penny Huang, and I manage the Feedback Research Portfolio at Fund for Shared Insight. Shared Insight has long advocated that creating high-quality, client-focused feedback loops is the “right thing to do.” Its signature initiative, Listen4Good, has demonstrated that feedback is a “feasible thing to do.” Now, we are starting to see the results …
Hello, AEA! We are Britt Lake, CEO of Feedback Labs, which seeks to make feedback the norm in aid, philanthropy, nonprofits, and government, and Melinda Tuan, Managing Director of Fund for Shared Insight, a national funder collaborative seeking to improve philanthropy by promoting high-quality listening and feedback in service of equity. Both our organizations are …
Hello! We are Ioana Munteanu, Evidence Governance Lead, and Clifton Best, Chief Data Architect, at FAS. For the past five years we’ve worked to build evidence capabilities, including evaluating evidence requirements, observing evidence challenges, and developing an evidence capacity framework and data infrastructure. Our objective is to empower staff across all levels and functions to …
Hello. We are Mingyu Feng and Kelly Collins with WestEd’s Learning and Technology group. Mingyu is a Senior Research Associate who directs several Institute of Education Sciences, National Science Foundation, and Education Innovation and Research funded experimental studies. Kelly is a Research Associate who is a pro in data manipulation and analysis. There is no …
