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Sherry Campanelli and Laura Newhall on Utilizing Idea Boards as an Evaluation Tool

Hi. We’re Sherry Campanelli, Program Compliance Manager and Laura Newhall, Clinical Training Coordinator, from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Disability Evaluation Services (DES). As an organization, we are committed to following Lean principles to enhance our services for people with disabilities. Lean principles assist organizations to maximize value while minimizing waste. These principles can …

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Kayla Brooks on Why and How You Should Be Using Social Network Analysis

My name is Kayla Brooks and I am the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator at One Earth Future Foundation. One of my primary responsibilities involves measuring the level of collaboration within the networks of our implementation projects. In this post, I discuss how to use social network analysis to measure collaboration and network effectiveness and provide …

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Feminist TIG Week: Rita Fierro on “Why Invest in Inclusion?”

I’m Rita Fierro from Fierro Consulting and I specialize in working with vulnerable populations in a more inclusive way. An inclusive conversation is one in which differences in perspectives are leveraged as opportunities instead of threats or ignored. Lessons Learned: To suggest to a client that a gender-responsive evaluation or an inclusive facilitation process is needed (along gender, race, ethnic, …

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OCF Week: Kim Leonard on Studio to School – A developmental evaluation in action

I am Kim Leonard, Senior Evaluation Officer at The Oregon Community Foundation. Today I want to share lessons learned from a developmental evaluation we’re undertaking for our five-year arts education grantmaking initiative – Studio to School. The nature of this Initiative is developmental and rooted in the arts. Creativity, adaptation, and risk are supported. The …

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GEDI Week: Kevin Lee on Communicating Evaluation Findings

Hi! I’m Kevin Lee. One key takeaway from my year as a GEDI scholar is the idea of communication in evaluation. More specifically, I was exposed to thinking about how to communicate findings in meaningful ways. Whereas writing a grant, working on a manuscript, or completing a report template can often lead to page after …

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Liz Zadnik on Alternatives to Creating an Evaluation Blog or Writing a Blog Post

Hi there wonderful readers!  Liz Zadnik here with my first Saturday post of the new year.  I have been struggling with what to write and thought some of you might be feeling the same way, so I came up with some activities, resources, and ideas to get you started.   Let me first say, that …

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Liz Zadnik on Canva as a Helpful and Accessible Tool for Data Visualization

Happy Saturday all!  Liz Zadnik here, your trusty Outreach Coordinator, with some design fun to kick off the weekend.  In addition to being an evaluation enthusiast, I also delight in design (see what I did there?!).   I’d like to share a free and accessible tool you can try to create graphics for reports, social media, …

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ACA TIG Week: Jessica Sperling on Initiating an Organization’s Evaluation Program

My name is Jessica Sperling, and I work in research and evaluation for education, youth development, arts/media/culture, and civic engagement programs. I am currently a researcher with the City University of New York (CUNY), where I consult on evaluation for educational programs and for StoryCorps, a storytelling/narrative-sharing program. Before joining CUNY, I had developed StoryCorps’ …

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ACA TIG Week: Annabel Jackson on Using Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) to Capture Non-verbal and Tacit Knowledge

Hi, I am Annabel Jackson, Co-chair of the Arts, Culture and Audiences TIG. My Co-chair, Ivonne Chand O’Neal, and I are delighted to host a week of aea365. Together, we have curated this week-long series to highlight examples of evaluation methods used to explore arts and culture, arts education, arts participation, and informal learning. Featured evaluation …

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Conference Presenters Week: Lynne Franco and Jonathan Jones on Supercharging your focus groups!

We are Lynne Franco: Vice President for Technical Assistance and Evaluation at EnCompass LLC, and Jonathan Jones: Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Advisor with CAMRIS International. Jonathan is also co-chair of AEA‘s International and Cross Cultural TIG. Focus groups are an important tool in the data collection tool box, allowing the evaluator to explore peoples’ …

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