Capacity Building

NC Evaluators Week: Why your online evaluation capacity building efforts are doomed to fail by Chris Lysy

Hello my fellow evaluators. My name is Chris Lysy, and I am a freelance evaluator, designer, and trainer based in Cary, North Carolina.  My consulting work involves helping organizations deal with the virtual shift (shifting programs from the “real world” to the “virtual world”). Over the last couple of decades lots of organizations have evolved …

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Capacity, Complexity, and Collaboration to Transform Evaluation by Tom Archibald

Hi, my name is Tom Archibald, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech and board member of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society (EERS). I’ve been thinking a lot about recent calls to transform evaluation. For example, we have: Blue Marble Evaluation’s Transformational Alignment Principle based on the premise of transforming evaluation to evaluate transformation The Equitable Evaluation …

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¡Milwaukee Evaluation! Week: Capacity building around evaluation practices for non-profits by Dawn Helmrich

Hello! I am Dawn Helmrich, Director of Research and Evaluation at United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County. I work with over 100 nonprofit programs in a four county area around program evaluation. I train nonprofit organizations on how to create and implement logic models, how to design evaluation plans and what outcomes measures …

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Evaluative Thinking as a Way of Doing Business by Guy Sharrock, Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley

Greetings! We’re Guy Sharrock (Catholic Relief Services), Tom Archibald (Virginia Tech), and Jane Buckley (JCBConsulting). Following a much earlier aea365 post dated April 29, 2012, Evaluative Thinking: The ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ of Evaluation Capacity Building and Evaluation Practice, we’d like to describe what we are learning from our evaluative thinking (ET) work in Ethiopia …

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Samantha Grant on Baby Steps to Building Capacity

Hi, I’m Samantha Grant, and I work for the University of Minnesota Extension as a Program Evaluator for the Center for Youth Development. As an internal evaluator, building evaluation capacity is crucial for my organization (and my mental health!) Building capacity doesn’t happen overnight, but with a few tactical strategies, you will be on your …

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Vincent Francisco on How context informs capacity-building and opportunities for community-level change

Hello, I’m Vincent Francisco, Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  In working with initiatives that span from very small and targeted program development to state and national-level initiatives for broader systems improvement, there are several challenges and opportunities that present themselves. Challenges Ever changing …

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Best of aea365 week: Summer Jackson on Insights Into Foundation Evaluation

My name is Summer N. Jackson, Project Director at Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy a regional, nonprofit membership organization that focuses on advancing the interests of African Americans in philanthropy and address the impact of racial disparity within philanthropic institutions and African American communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had the opportunity to …

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Jennifer Grove on One Practitioner’s Journey to Embrace Evaluation

I’m Jennifer Grove, Prevention Outreach Coordinator at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), a technical assistance provider for anti-sexual violence programs throughout the country.  I’ve worked in this movement for nearly 17 years, but when it comes to evaluation work, I’m a newbie.  Evaluation has been an area of interest for programs for several years …

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Karen Widmer on Knowledge Flow: Making Evaluation the Reference Point

Hello. I am Karen Widmer, a 4th year doctoral student in the Evaluation program at Claremont Graduate University. I’ve been developing and evaluating systems for performance (business, education, healthcare, and nonprofits) for a long time. I think organizations are a lot like organisms. While each organization is unique, certain conditions help them all grow. I …

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Christine Johnson and Terri Anderson on the Quality Improvement – Evaluation Connection

Hi, we are Christine Johnson and Terri Anderson, members of the Massachusetts Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative (MA-PCMHI). MA-PCMHI is Massachusetts’ state-wide, multi-site PCMH demonstration project engaging 46 primary care practices in organizational transformation to adopt the PCMH primary care model.  Our roles as Transformation and Quality Improvement Director (Christine) and Qualitative Evaluation Study Team …

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