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CEA Week: Tania Rempert, Leanne Kallemeyn, David Ensminger, and Megan Polanin on Developing Evaluation Capacity Through Coaching

Greetings!  I am Tania Rempert, a Research Associate at University of Illinois, Champaign. This post is written together with my colleagues Leanne Kallemeyn, David Ensminger, and Megan Polanin from Loyola University in Chicago. We would like to share our preliminary findings of a case study examining evaluation coaching activities that have taken place at the …

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CEA Week: Sarah Rand on Online Evaluation Reports

Greetings from the University of Chicago. I am Sarah Rand, Associate Project Director and Research and Evaluation Associate at the Center for Elementary Math and Science Education (CEMSE). A challenge for every evaluator is to present findings in informative way that will be useful to the client. This summer our team evaluated Google’s computer science …

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CEA Week: Shana Alford on The Art of Asking the Right Evaluation Questions

Greetings! My name is Shana Alford and I am an internal program evaluator at ACCESS Community Health Network, a 501 (c) federally qualified health center network of more than 40 health centers in under-served communities within the City of Chicago. As an internal evaluator, I objectively analyze how federally funded community health programs are implemented …

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CEA Week: Leah C. Neubauer on Adult Education, Planning for Learning & AEA 2012

Welcome to the Chicagoland Evaluation Association’s  (CEA) week of AEA 365.   My name is Leah Christina Neubauer and I am the President of CEA. CEA has organized a stimulating week of posts that address the evaluation-related work of our members. As the lead post for the week, I offer insights and resources related to the …

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Allison Titcomb and Lenay Dunn on Evaluation Book Clubs

We’re Allison Titcomb, President of ALTA Consulting in Tucson, and Lenay Dunn, Associate Director for Research and Evaluation, University Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness, Arizona State University Maybe, like us, you’ve thought about joining a book club, but there never seems to be enough time.   How about if you combined an engaging and fun …

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AZENet Week: Evan Mendelson on Evaluating System Change: Helping Donors Understand What Success Looks Like

I’m Evan Mendelson, Vice President of Donor Relations and Program Services at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (CFSA). I work with both sides of the philanthropic enterprise – the funders and the nonprofits they fund. Donors always ask nonprofits to evaluate how the grant they are providing makes a difference. Too often the nonprofit …

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AZENet Week: Amy Schaller and Bryna Koch on Lessons from the Trenches: Designing an Evaluation Website

We’re Amy Schaller and Bryna Koch, Evaluation Specialists at the University of Arizona, Cooperative Extension Services. How do you support an inaugural cross-site evaluation with a national initiative while incorporating technology and building grantee capacity?  This was the charge of the CYFERnet (Children, Youth, and Families Evaluation & Research Network) Evaluation Team at the University …

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AZENet Week: Catherine Jahnes on Bringing Funders Together to Talk about Evaluation

Hi! I’m Catherine Jahnes, a Phoenix-based evaluator. In Arizona, there can be the sense that the funding community lacks the resources to support evaluation. Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, Valley of the Sun United Way, First Things First, and Arizona Grantmakers Forum (AGF) united to combat this perception by creating an evaluation-focused affinity group comprised …

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WE Week: Ann Emery on The Diversity of Evaluation Opportunities in DC

Hi, I’m Ann Emery. All this week, you’ll hear from members of the Washington Evaluators about the diversity of evaluation opportunities that are available in DC. Evaluation is booming in DC! This is the best city in the world for evaluators because we can choose to specialize in one area or try out different settings, approaches, and content areas throughout our …

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Sarah Gill on the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association Spring Social 2012

I’m Sarah Gill, membership chair for the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA). Recently AaEA hosted a spring social. The event was inspired by the recent AEA 365 posts making predictions for the future of evaluation. Maureen Wilce, AaEA’s chair for professional development, and I thought the posts would inspire great conversation among our fellow evaluators  – …

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