Hi, We’re Leah Josephson (she/her) and Lauren Beriont (she/her) with Emergence Collective, and Alex Bauer with a family foundation in Nebraska. This year our two teams collaborated to support some of the foundation’s grant partners in building evaluation capacity.
Hi! I’m Disa Patel and I work at the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF). One of my favorite roles is building evaluation capacity throughout the department. Currently, I’m leading a project called Metrics that Matter to help my division’s teams identify, well, metrics that matter to them. Cool Trick: Talk in a language …
Hi, We’re Leah Josephson (she/her) and Lauren Beriont (she/her) with Emergence Collective, and Alex Bauer with a family foundation in Nebraska. This year our two teams collaborated to support some of the foundation’s grant partners in building evaluation capacity. As a foundation that takes a relationship-based grantmaking approach, trust and shared values and goals are …
Hello! ¡Saludos! I’m Lisa Aponte-Soto, an AEA GEDI alumna, Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse (La RED) TIG chair, and CEA local affiliate member. I currently serve as Associate Director of Community Engaged Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. La RED and CEA foster communities of practice to exchange ideas and enhance collective learning around evaluation …
I am Teresa McCoy, Assistant Director at the University of Maryland Extension (UME). I was hired 10 years ago with responsibility for evaluation and assessment across all program areas of agriculture, family and consumer sciences, environment and natural resources, and 4-H youth development. There was not a lot of evaluation knowledge and practice in the …
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Hello, AEA folks! This is Jay Wade from PIE Org, a strategic partner of Become, and I am an evaluation capacity building (ECB) nerd! As a practitioner of ECB, I always wonder…what happens after our contract ends? Do organizations sustain evaluation practice? It turns out…they do! As part of my dissertation, I looked into the …
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We’re Chris Lovato, Professor in the School of Population & Public Health at the University of British Columbia, and Kylie Hutchinson, independent consultant and author of A Short Primer on Innovative Evaluation Reporting. To date, most evaluation capacity-building has tended to focus on program-level managers and staff, ignoring the key role that senior leaders also …
Hi, I’m Daren Nyquist, a Research and Evaluation Director at The Improve Group, an evaluation consulting firm in Minnesota. Today I’m going to tell you about building evaluation capacity with clients over time, something we have had the benefit of doing with some long-term clients. It’s exciting to see community-focused organizations taking the reins on …
Hi Colleagues! We are Antonella Guidoccio, Mohamed Rage, and Qudratullah Jahid and we coordinate Task Force 2 charged with developing a mentoring program for Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEEs). We want to share our experience of how to design a mentoring program in a collaborative and inclusive way. We started by conducting a needs and …
Hi, my name is Rhodri Dierst-Davies, an evaluation specialist with Deloitte Consulting LLP working out of our federal practice. Many times federal programs are, by design, implemented differently across states and municipalities. These programs rely on inputs from local stakeholders and policy makers to ensure they are tailored to the needs of the communities they …
