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SIM TIG Week: Social Impact Measurement: What is this all about? By Jane Reisman and Alyna Wyatt

Hi there, we’re Jane Reisman and Alyna Wyatt, Chair and Program Chair of the Social Impact Measurement TIG. The fields of impact investing and other market solutions are rapidly advancing vehicles for addressing social and environmental goals. The Social Impact Measurement TIG is in its early stages of growth and exploration as we as evaluation …

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ICCE TIG WEEK: Using M&E data to evaluate the impacts of an integrated and holistic international development model by Ashweeta Patnaik

Hello, I’m Ashweeta Patnaik and I work at the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) at The University of Texas in Austin. RMC has partnered with Nuru International (Nuru) to use Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) data to evaluate the impacts of Nuru’s integrated development model. Here, I share some lessons learned. Nuru is a social venture committed …

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CP TIG Week: Natalie Wilkins and Shakiyla Smith on Systems Thinking for Achieving (and Evaluating) Population Level Impact

We are Natalie Wilkins and Shakiyla Smith from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As public health scientists and evaluators, we are charged with achieving and measuring community and population level impact in injury and violence prevention. The public health model includes: (1) defining the problem, (2) …

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Jindra Cekan on Rolling the Dice; Impact or Self-Sustainability?

AEA365 Valuing Voices impact vs self-sustainability trade off submission – Hi, I am Jindra Cekan, PhD of Valuing Voices at Cekan Consulting LLC. I have been roaming around international development projects since 1988. Lesson Learned: What’s likely to ‘stand’ after we go? A new consideration in project design and evaluation Last spring I had the …

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Ian Patrick and Anne Markiewicz on Establishing Outcomes to Impacts

Greetings from Ian Patrick and Anne Markiewicz, in Melbourne, Australia – evaluators active in evaluation design, implementation and training for a range of domestic and international clients. We’ve been reflecting on a tortured area of evaluation practice – that being expectations frequently placed on evaluators to identify the IMPACT of a program. Every evaluator breathes …

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BLP TIG Week: Michelle Paul Heelan on Gathering Data To Demonstrate the Impact of Training

My name is Michelle Paul Heelan, Ph.D., an evaluation specialist and organizational behavior consultant with ICF International.  In my fifteen years assisting private corporations and public agencies to track indicators of organizational health, I’ve found that moving towards more sophisticated levels of training evaluation is challenging – but here at ICF we’ve identified effective strategies …

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Ed Eval Week: Kelly Murphy on Sensitively Measuring Program Impact

Hi! I am Kelly Murphy, a Doctoral Candidate in Applied Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University and a new Member-At-Large in the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG. Over the past five years I have had the pleasure of working on an evaluation of a large multi-site out-of-school time (OST) program that serves over 15,000 K-12 students. …

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APC Week: Claire Hutchings and Kimberly Bowman on Advocacy Impact Evaluation

Hello – we’re Claire Hutchings and Kimberly Bowman, working with Oxfam Great Britain (GB) on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning of Advocacy and Campaigns. We’re writing today to share with you Oxfam GB’s efforts to adopt a rigorous approach to advocacy impact evaluation and to ask you to help us strengthen our approach. Rad Resources Resources: …

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ACA Week: Jennifer Novak-Leonard on Audience Impact

Hi everyone – My name is Jennifer Novak-Leonard, and I’m a Senior Consultant with WolfBrown, an arts and cultural research and management consultancy. While many museums conduct regular visitor studies and have evaluators on staff, the idea of having an evaluator in a performing arts organization is largely a foreign concept. Performing arts organizations are …

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Allan Porowski and Heather Clawson on Conducting a Large-Scale, Mixed-Method Evaluation of a Dropout Prevention Program

Hello! We’re Allan Porowski from ICF International and Heather Clawson from Communities In Schools (CIS). We completed a five-year, comprehensive, mixed-method evaluation of CIS, which featured  several study components – including three student-level randomized controlled trials; a school-level quasi-experimental study; eight case studies; a natural variation study to identify what factors distinguished the most successful …

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