During the previous 6 years, Communities In Schools (CIS), an education nonprofit with nearly 200 affiliates across the United States, created a Total Quality System (TQS) of standards to achieve uniform quality in business practice and program implementation across the CIS network
AEA Conference 2013 Poster.pdf
These slides were presented at the Nov 2010 conference in San Antonio. The slides describe an evaluation of the Schools of the Future Initiative (SOTF) funded by the Hawaii Community Foundation. The first part describes the conceptualization of the initiative and analyses in the first year of the SOTF initiative
AEA presentation Nov 11.pptx
AEA conference presentation framing roundtable discussion, drawing upon key lessons from the field with accountability to communities. Presenters included Kristin Helz with American Red Cross, Mununuri Musori with International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and...
AtC AEA Presentation 13Nov2015.pdf
Session Description: In an environment of increasing social participation and transparency, communities of practice are one means to unite a variety of partners to address common issues, share resources, and learn new information
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Presentation notes and handout for Roundtable 560: Evaluating the Development of Community in Communities of Practice, Friday 11/04/2011. There is growing interest in many sectors to use a community of practice approach for improving how work around a shared concern is done
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Typically, "stories" that emerge from evaluation results follow instrumental logic that enhances the process of task-oriented work groups designed to produce deliverable outcomes. In contrast, communities of practice need stories that follow communicative logic that enhances valuing participation, sharing of knowledge and shared identity
AEA2014v2.pptx
Presented by Nick Hart, Washington Evaluators President-elect and David Bernstein, Washington Evaluators President. Founded in 1984 with an initial membership of 12 evaluators, the Washington Evaluators (WE) has since grown to include a professional and student membership base of more than 200 in the nation's capitol. This presentation described WE's experience in developing and maintaining a community of evaluation practitioners that include a diverse mix of government, private, and self-employed evaluators as well as prominent evaluators in academia
WE Presentation 9-24-2016.pptx
PowerPoint presentation given as part of session 811 at AEA 2011 in Anaheim. Session was titled: New Frontiers in International Development Evaluation: Key Challenges and Lessons Learned in Evaluating Online Communities of Practice
AEA 2011.pptx
As the founding President of WE has noted, affiliates help to develop an evaluation community in a local area. WE has become an evaluation community of practice. WE membership draws from the large, ubiquitous presence of the U.S. Federal government in the DC area, but also from state and local governments, nonprofits, academia, consulting firms and independent consultants, and the private sector
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Given the increased attention to resilience-strengthening in international humanitarian and development work, there has been concurrent interest in its measurement and the overall accountability of “resilience strengthening” initiatives
AEA Resilience Session Denver AEA - 10-2014.pdf