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Clare Nolan and Sonia Taddy on Capacity Building for Nonprofits

Hello! We’re Clare Nolan and Sonia Taddy with Harder+Company Community Research, a national consulting firm that specializes in evaluation. We work with nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies throughout the country to plan and evaluate services for vulnerable populations. Lesson Learned: Over the years, we’ve evaluated multiple grantmaking initiatives designed to build the capacity of nonprofits. …

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Corey Newhouse on Using Video in Evaluation

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / October 19, 2011 October 19, 2011

My name is Corey Newhouse and I’m the Founder and Principal of Public Profit. We help youth service and educational organizations measure and manage what matters. I’m a self-taught user of video in evaluation, and am writing to share some of my lessons learned. We have incorporated video into our evaluation studies for the last …

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Agata Jose-Ivanina on Identifying and Evaluating a Program’s Costs

1 Comment / Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits and Economics / October 6, 2011 October 6, 2011

Greetings all! I am Agata Jose-Ivanina and I am a Senior Associate with ICF International, a research and evaluation firm headquartered near Washington, DC. As the budget debate has been heating up and educational agencies have to make hard choices, we have seen an increased demand to include a cost component as part of program …

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Frances Julia Riemer on Ethnographic Evaluations

1 Comment / Qualitative Methods / September 21, 2011 September 21, 2011

I am Frances Julia Riemer from Professional Evaluation and Assessment Consultants (PEAC). PEAC specializes in school-based evaluations, regularly incorporating ethnographic methods in our work. I’ve also conducted several full-scale ethnographic evaluations of government and non-governmental funded initiatives in and outside the US and in and outside schools. These were both summative and formative; they illuminated …

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Corinne Ranney-Philbrick on Free Webinars for Professional Development

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 31, 2011 September 3, 2011

I’m Corinne Ranney-Philbrick and this year I have a new daughter and my available funding for profession development has been cut. Taken together, I’m looking online for inexpensive training opportunities and thought that I would share a few free webinar-based options that I have found: Rad Resource – Equity-Focused Evaluations Webinar Series: Sponsored by a …

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Myia Welsh and Johanna Morariu on Approaches to Supporting Evaluation Capacity Building

2 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 28, 2011 August 28, 2011

Hello! Our names are Myia Welsh and Johanna Morariu and we work for Innovation Network, an evaluation consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. We work with nonprofits and foundations to build evaluation capacity, and to support learning and evaluation of nonprofit advocacy, programs, and other services. Lesson Learned: Over the years we’ve provided evaluation capacity …

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Susan Kistler on Mapping Tools

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / August 27, 2011 August 28, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and contributor for each Saturday’s aea365 post. This week I’m writing on Thursday and queuing it up for Saturday, anticipating a couple of busy days ahead. I also serve as a houseparent at a small Boarding school on the south coast of Massachusetts, known as “the School by the …

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Kylie Hutchinson on the Top 10 Reasons Why I’m Glad I’m an Evaluator

4 Comments / Uncategorized / August 26, 2011 August 18, 2011

My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I frequently teach workshops on evaluation and occasionally facilitate the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Essential Skills Series course. I am also a regular workshop presenter at AEA conferences and eStudy Webinars. I also Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. …

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Celina Chao & Patricia Quinones on Maintaining Organizational Memory

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 11, 2011 August 10, 2011

Hi. We are Celina Chao and Patricia Quinones, second-year doctoral students in the Social Research Methodology (SRM) Division in the Department of Education at UCLA. We are part of UCLA’s SRM Evaluation Group, composed of evaluation graduate students and faculty who work on a variety of education-related projects. Lesson Learned: A challenge that university-based evaluation …

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