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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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Jan Losby and Alberta Mirambeau on Tips to Remember When It Comes to Measuring Reach and Impact

Jan Losby and Alberta Mirambeau are members of the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  In a climate of limited resources, we recognize that public health programs may not be able to evaluate every aspect of their work. We …

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Sophie Alvarez on Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis

Hi, my name is Sophie Alvarez and I work in the Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF) as a consultant in monitoring and evaluation. During Phase I of the CPWF, we began developing an evaluation and monitoring methodology where a group of project researchers and some of their stakeholders get together and map the …

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