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SWB Week: Mark Griffin on Preparing to Work in a Developing Country

Greetings I am Mark Griffin. At the time of writing this article I am fortunate enough to be in the middle of a world trip. Key events of my trip: last week I was in Fiji chairing the Pacific Conference for Statistics and Information Systems, my third trip to Fiji, with a rapidly developing workshop …

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Vanessa Jackson on Using Qualitative Methods for Small Business Development and Sustainability

Greetings from Kentucky, the land of national basketball championships.  My name is Vanessa Prier Jackson and I a professor of retailing in the School of Human Environmental Sciences in the department of Merchandising Apparel and Textiles at the University of Kentucky. For the last three years I have become very interested in qualitative research in …

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AZENet Week: Kori Kanayama on Using Business Model Assessment to Approach Organizational Sustainability

Hello, my name is Kori Kanayama of Kaoru Kanayama Consulting.  I’m going to share an approach to assessing a nonprofit organization’s profitability and mission impact as a springboard to organizational sustainability. I presented this assessment methodology at the Spring AZENet conference. This methodology can be done by nonprofit leaders, and by internal or external evaluators. …

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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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Sarah Gill on the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association Spring Social 2012

I’m Sarah Gill, membership chair for the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA). Recently AaEA hosted a spring social. The event was inspired by the recent AEA 365 posts making predictions for the future of evaluation. Maureen Wilce, AaEA’s chair for professional development, and I thought the posts would inspire great conversation among our fellow evaluators  – …

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