organizational learning

Navigating Organizational Politics and Paving the Way for Real Organizational Change by Cynthia Cortez

I’m Cynthia Cortez, current Director of Evaluation and Learning at Bresee Foundation, a multi-service non-profit focused on battling poverty. My experience in promoting organizational improvement as an internal evaluator has taught me something very important: recognize how politics mediates improvement. Politics. Yes, I know it can be triggering. Yet, it’s always present and as a professor used …

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LAWG Week: A Culture of Learning by Myron Marshall

Hello evaluators and philanthropists. I’m Myron Marshall, a National Urban Fellow and soon to be MPA graduate. Over the last 9 months I have grown, learning from new experiences. Specifically, I have been introduced to the profession of evaluation and the philanthropic community. Through my fellowship program, I have also experienced a new city, Cleveland. …

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NPF TIG Week: Lead with Learning by Kelci Price

Hi! I’m Kelci Price, Senior Director of Learning & Evaluation at the Colorado Health Foundation. I used to think learning was an event that happened when evaluation results were ready, but I’ve come to realize that learning is actually at the core of good strategy, and it’s the critical link to whether evaluation actually gets …

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NPF TIG Week: Essential Elements for Fostering Learning by Julie Slay and Marissa Guerrero  

Hi, we are Julie Slay and Marissa Guerrero, and we specialize in evaluation and learning at Arabella Advisors, a philanthropic consulting firm that helps donors and impact investors be more strategic and effective. Many of our clients come to us to learn from their grant making and to share those lessons throughout their organization and …

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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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Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, and Ann Emery on New Research: The State of Evaluation 2012

Hello! We are Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, and Ann Emery from Innovation Network. For 20 years, Innovation Network has helped nonprofits and foundations evaluate and learn from their work. In 2010, Innovation Network set out to answer a question that was previously unaddressed in the evaluation field—what is the state of nonprofit evaluation practice and …

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CC Week: Karen Anderson on Integrating Cultural Competency into Organizations

I’m Karen Anderson, AEA’s Diversity Coordinator Intern, and in this role I support AEA’s diversity programs, TIGs, and the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. The baton has been passed from the Cultural Competence in Evaluation Task Force, the Statement developers, to the Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group …

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AZENet Week: Sarah Griffiths on The Sustainability Formula

I’m Sarah Griffiths, Senior Partner, Wholonomy Consulting, in Tucson, AZ.  I’m going to share some highlights of the recent AZENet conference which focused on Building Capacity for Organizational Effectiveness.  The learning goals for participants were to: Understand what research shows about organizational effectiveness in three key areas: Adaptive Capacity, Leadership, and Management Practices. Explore the …

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Jeff Sheldon on the Readiness for Organizational Learning and Evaluation instrument

My name is Jeff Sheldon and I am a doctoral student at the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University concentrating in evaluation and applied research methods.  A challenge I’ve encountered in my own practice is organizations that simply aren’t ready to be engaged in the evaluation process. Rad Resource: Readiness for …

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Stephen Gill on Organizational Learning

My name is Stephen J. Gill. I’m author of Developing a Learning Culture in Nonprofit Organizations (SAGE, 2010)*. This might not sound like a book for evaluators, but it is. The book is about how the process of collecting, reflecting on, and learning from evaluative information can help nonprofits become more successful organizations. Nineteen evaluation …

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