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The role of values in advancing field-level change by Meg Long and Clare Nolan

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 11, 2020

Hello, all! We are Meg Long of Equal Measure and Clare Nolan of Engage R&D, co-founders of FEAN, the Funder and Evaluator Affinity Network. FEAN’S goal is to change the relationship between funders and evaluators from a transactional one to a partnership, shifting the field of philanthropic evaluation to become fairer, more equitable, and more …

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Strengthening the Field of Philanthropic Evaluation by Clare Nolan and Meg Long by Clare Nolan and Meg Long

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 10, 2019

We are Clare Nolan, Co-Founder of Engage R+D, and Meg Long, President, of Equal Measure. As leaders of evaluation firms dedicated to working with social sector organizations to deepen their impact, we recognize the importance of network strategies as a way to advance field development and learning. At the recent 2018 AEA conference, we convened …

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NPF TIG Week: 3 Traps that Hold Back Sharing Truths in Philanthropy by Clare Nolan and Sonia Taddy

2 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 28, 2018

Greetings! We are Clare Nolan and Sonia Taddy and last year we co-founded Engage R+D to help social sector organizations harness the power of evaluation, strategy, and learning to advance their missions. As long-time evaluators dedicated to social change, we are keenly aware of the importance of enabling diverse stakeholders to share their truth and …

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AZENet Week: Evan Mendelson on Evaluating System Change: Helping Donors Understand What Success Looks Like

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / May 25, 2012

I’m Evan Mendelson, Vice President of Donor Relations and Program Services at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (CFSA). I work with both sides of the philanthropic enterprise – the funders and the nonprofits they fund. Donors always ask nonprofits to evaluate how the grant they are providing makes a difference. Too often the nonprofit …

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Susan Kistler on 4 Must See/Hear Webcasts and Podcasts to Round Out Your Knowledge Base

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / April 30, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. I was inspired by Dorian’s 4/28 post on 5 must-read blogs for those working in nonprofits, and thought I would share a few must see/hear webcasts and podcasts with which you may not be familiar. Rad Resource – Videos on Evaluation Methods from UNICEF: …

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Dorian Almont on 5 Must-Read Blogs for Those Working in Nonprofits and Foundations

3 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 1, 2011

Hello, I’m Dorian Almont and I am an independent consultant working primarily to develop measurement capacity with nonprofit community organizations. I’d like to share five blogs that I read, after I’m done reading aea365 of course, to keep up to date on issues in the nonprofit sector. Each regularly includes discussions and contributions focusing on …

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Ehren Reed and Johanna Morariu on New Research: The State of Evaluation 2010

3 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design, Research on Evaluation / September 1, 2011

We are Ehren Reed and Johanna Morariu, Senior Associates of Innovation Network. We work with foundations and nonprofits to evaluate and learn from programs, projects, and advocacy endeavors. For more than fifteen years, Innovation Network has been an intermediary in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors—our mission is to build the evaluation capacity of people and …

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NPF Week: Sandi Adams on Models for System Change

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 9, 2010

My name is Sandi Adams, and I am the Program Associate in Evaluation and Planning at the William Penn Foundation. The William Penn Foundation is a regional foundation dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Greater Philadelphia region through efforts that foster rich cultural expression, strengthen children’s futures, and deepen connections to nature …

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Tom Kelly on Evaluation and Philanthropy

1 Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / April 30, 2010

Hello, I’m Tom Kelly and I have been supporting and managing evaluation investments and capacity-building since 1999 at The Annie E. Casey Foundation, a national philanthropy focused on achieving better outcomes for America’s most vulnerable children and families. Although I began my evaluation career 10 years before that working on evaluations of federal and state …

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Susan Kistler on Synergies, Measuring Social Media, Allison Fine, EPE Week, and Breakfast

3 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / August 24, 2010

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association. I contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. Last week, I noted that I was writing from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). This week, I am going to try to tie together learnings from NTC, upcoming events within …

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