Cross-posted at the Canadian Evaluation Society Conference website. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… A few weeks ago, the New York Times reported that the United States Department of Homeland Security was in the midst of an evaluation failure. Since 2010, the Department has been … Continue reading →
EvalBlog: Evaluation Across Boundaries—Literally and Metaphorically
May 7, 2013 By
EvalBlog: San Francisco Bay Area Evaluators (SFBAE) Celebrate “EVAL-entine’s” Day
February 20, 2013 By
It started a few years back when some evaluators jokingly suggested there should be a national holiday to honor evaluation. Well, that sounded like a pretty good idea to me, so last year I invented a holiday—EVALentine’s Day—that is celebrated … Continue reading →
EvalBlog: Above the Arctic Circle in Search of Evaluation
December 23, 2012 By
Earlier this year, I traveled to Helsinki to participate in the European Evaluation Society (EES) conference. It was fantastic…but more on that in future posts. While in Finland, I traveled above the Arctic Circle to Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland. … Continue reading →
EvalBlog: Evaluation in the Post-Data Age: What Evaluators Can Learn from the 2012 Presidential Election
November 9, 2012 By
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An evaluator uses data to assess the effectiveness of a program, arrives at a well-reasoned but disappointing conclusion, and finds that the conclusion is not embraced—perhaps ignored or even rejected—by those with … Continue reading →
EvalBlog: Conference Blog: Evaluation 2012 (Part 1)—Complexity
October 31, 2012 By
I have a great fondness for the American Evaluation Association and its Annual Conference. At this year’s conference—Evaluation 2012—roughly 3,000 evaluators from around the world came together to share their work, rekindle old friendships, and establish new ones. I was … Continue reading →
EvalBlog: Conference Blog: The American Evaluation Association Conference About to Kickoff
October 24, 2012 By
It’s been a busy few months for me. I have been leading workshops, making presentations, attending conferences, and working in Honolulu, Helsinki, London, Tallinn (Estonia), and Claremont. I met some amazing people and learned a great deal about how evaluation is … Continue reading →
EvalBlog: Conference Blog: Catapult Labs 2012
May 25, 2012 By
Did you miss the Catapult Labs conference on May 19? Then you missed something extraordinary. But don’t worry, you can get the recap here. The event was sponsored by Catapult Design, a nonprofit firm in San Francisco that uses the … Continue reading →
EvalBlog: Measuring Impact: Integrating Evaluation & Design (Workshop May 19 in SF)
May 10, 2012 By
Interested in design for social change? Curious about how to measure the social impact of your designs? Check out my upcoming San Francisco workshop—Measuring Impact: Integrating Evaluation & Design–taking place on May 19 as part of CatapultLabs: Design Tools to … Continue reading →
EvalBlog: Conference Blog: The Wharton “Creating Lasting Change” Conference
April 13, 2012 By
How can corporations promote the greater good? Can they do good and be profitable? How well can we measure the good they are doing? These were some of the questions explored at a recent Wharton School Conference entitled Creating Lasting … Continue reading →
EvalBlog: Measurement Is Not the Answer
Bill Gates recently summarized his yearly letter in an article for the Wall Street Journal entitled My Plan to Fix the World’s Biggest Problems…Measure Them! As an evaluator, I was thrilled. I thought, “Someone with clout is making the case … Continue reading →