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Empathy in Evaluation

On September 3, 2019

This week, Jen and Rebecca chat about the role that empathy can play in program evaluation. This chat was inspired by a workshop the Glass Frog team held internally a few months ago to discuss what empathy is, its importance for our work, and how we can become more empathetic as evaluators, consultants, and colleagues. We enjoyed that workshop and felt like it helped our team talk through some of the ways in which we are not always as empathetic as we could be. Having this conversation improved our work, so we thought y'all might find it useful as well! As always, we appreciate you listening and would love to hear your thoughts! Feel free to ping us on the Contact Us page with your questions and thoughts!

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Evaluating collaboratives with Kyrah Brown and Susan Wolfe

On August 5, 2019

Welcome back! This month we had the pleasure of talking with Kyrah Brown and Susan Wolfe about evaluating community collaboratives. We define what collaboratives are, Susan and Kyrah's approach to evaluating them, and some of the fun and challenging aspects of working with collaboratives. Kyrah and Susan are both trained as community psychologists, so they approach all of their work from that perspective. We learned a lot and we think you will, too, so give it a listen! If you are interested in learning more about Susan and Kyrah's work or about community psychology in general, here are some useful links: Susan's consulting business: Susan Wolfe and Associates Kyrah's research group: Maternal and Child Health Equity Research and Evaluation Team Society for Community Research and Action The Community Tool Box American Evaluation Association Topical Interest Group in Community Psychology

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Season 2 Trailer!

On July 29, 2019

We are thrilled to be back for our second season of the Glass Frog podcast! If you're new to the podcast, we started it as a way of both connecting with people who were doing interesting work and learning about new topics related to measurement and evaluation. Season 1 was a lot of fun and we're looking forward to doing it all over again in season 2! In the coming weeks, we'll talk about evaluating community collaboratives, health evaluation, the role of empathy in evaluation, and many more topics. The first episode of season 2 will drop Monday, August 5th. We chat with Kyrah Brown and Susan Wolfe about evaluating community collaboratives. We learned a lot from them and think you will, too! So please tune in! We'll continue to post episodes the first Monday of every month. They’ll be released through our website and on iTunes and Google Play, so please subscribe if you want to stay up to date each month.

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Survey design with Sheila Robinson

On December 3, 2018

Last month, we talked with Justin Rivers of The Character Connection Initiative and he shared with us a story about a survey his organization undertook in order to measure growth on student outcomes. You can listen to that episode to hear some of the things that went well and...

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Evaluation at a small-scale nonprofit with Justin Rivers

On November 5, 2018

Did you know that almost two-thirds of reporting public charities in the U.S. have an annual budget that is less than $500,000? (We learned that from Social Startup Success.) There are a lot of small organizations out there and it's tough to do evaluation when you're a one or two...

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Evaluation Failures with Kylie Hutchinson

On October 1, 2018

In this episode, we chat with fellow evaluator Kylie Hutchinson about her new book Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned, which was released in September. Kylie is the principal consultant and founder of Community Solutions, a planning and evaluation firm in British Columbia. She chats with us about her reasons for writing the book, the importance of learning from our failures, and her own experiences as a professional evaluator. Also, spoiler alert: Kylie confesses that she doesn't spend her time listening to podcasts about program evaluation and claims that she would only tune in to another podcast episode if it included a true crime narrative presented in the style of Serial. Challenge accepted, Ms. Hutchinson.

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Wrapping up the series on building an outcomes-focused culture

On September 24, 2018

It's your lucky day! We're providing this bonus episode to summarize some of the key takeaways from the outcomes-focused culture series. In this episode, Jen and Rebecca break down the 10 biggest themes from the three-part series and use them to offer a few recommendations for how nonprofits can become more...

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Nikki Thompson – Building an outcomes-focused culture (Part 3 of 3)

On September 3, 2018

In this final episode of our three-part series, we talk with Nikki Thompson, the Executive Director of OneGoal-New York. OneGoal is dedicated to helping low-income students successfully manage the transition to college. It is a national organization with regional sites across the U.S., and Nikki manages the New York...

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Kathleen Kelly Janus – Building an outcomes-focused culture (Part 2 of 3)

On August 6, 2018

This month, we talk with author, teacher, lawyer, and nonprofit-founder Kathleen Kelly Janus about her new book, Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up and Make a Difference. Kathleen is a lawyer by training, but is a social entrepreneur herself and now lectures on social entrepreneurship at...

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Bonus: Arbor Brothers – Building an outcomes-focused culture

On July 9, 2018

Our conversation with Scott Thomas and Sammy Politziner of the Arbor Brothers was so great that we couldn't contain all of their wisdom in one episode. In this bonus episode, we talk with Scott and Sammy about some of the developments they've seen across the sector with respect to outcomes...

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