We are excited to be kicking off Season 4 of the Glass Frog Podcast with evaluator and author Chari Smith! Chari is the founder of Evaluation into Action, which partners with nonprofit professionals to create realistic and meaningful program evaluation processes. She teaches workshops aimed at helping nonprofit professionals understand the value of program evaluation, and recently published her first book that helps early career evaluators, nonprofit professionals, and students learn how to create and implement an evaluation plan. The book, Nonprofit Program Evaluation Made Simple: Get Your Data. Show Your Impact. Improve Your Practice, is on shelves, so order your copy today!

Chari is a proud member of the Oregon Program Evaluators Network (OPEN) and the International Society of Evaluation Education (ISEE). She is also an active member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and serves on their Nonprofit and Foundations Topic Interest Group (TIG) Leadership Council. As of summer 2021, she is also an adjunct faculty member for the University of Portland’s Pamplin School of Business Nonprofit MBA program. Chari is passionate about her work and brings her enthusiasm, insight, and expertise to each project.

Chari is also available to speak on a range of topics that will both inspire and inform. If you have an upcoming conference or event, please reach out to her through her website. Feel free to view her opening plenary session at the American Evaluation Association conference 2020.

Participate in a workshop with Chari! On Thursday, July 29 at 9:00 AM PST, Chari will be giving a workshop titled Measurable Outcomes Made Simple. If you work with nonprofits or want to learn a more collaborative approach to creating outcomes, please join Chari. You can learn more and register for the workshop here.

You can connect with Chari on Twitter (@evalenthusiast), LinkedIn, or by e-mail at [email protected]. 

We talk with Chari about her artistic interests as well. She wrote a song about evaluation (!), which you can hear on her website. You can also learn more about her creative endeavors using the links below:

• Chari writes music, plays and musicals. Learn more about her creative adventures at: charismith.com
• Evaluation as Jazz – Comfort Pandemic Music with Michael Quinn Patton, original music by Chari Smith.
• Portland Mini Musical Festival 2020: Book Club. Book, Music, and Lyrics by Chari Smith. A group of women in varying stages of their adult lives, come together under the pretense of discussing a book. The book never gets discussed, but wine is imbibed, secrets are shared and support is given. It is a heartfelt tribute to the power of friendship among women, no matter what their age. (Please note, this video opens with a song that is for the entire performance of all 6 mini musicals. Book Club starts right after the song and is about 20 minutes.)

It’s imperative for a neurological spediscount viagra dig thist to differentiate between real and fake products. You do not function as one addicted, http://respitecaresa.org/support-respite-care-through-birdies-for-charity/ levitra uk however your cherished one. However, because this product costs much, only a part of your brain that controls urination begins to slow buying levitra down. Basically there are cheap viagra tablet many medicines in the market that are able to provide erection relief to an erectile dysfunction suffering personality, Kamagra should be the choice for your treatment as the wrong and false medication can develop the negative health consequences of diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension.
Unwitting sponsor! We were delighted to pull in **Dance** as a sponsor for the first episode of Season 4. Who doesn’t love Dance? Whether you’re a seasoned performer or just a have-a-glass-of-champagne-and-find-your-way-to-the-dance-floor kind of person, dance offers a way for everyone to let loose and have fun. Jen and Rebecca would describe themselves as avid consumers of dance and appreciate when a video of a clean dance combination drops into their Instagram feeds. Rebecca’s enthusiasm for dance occurred later in life, spurred by her daughter’s own interest in and pursuit of the art form. Jen and her husband are known to cut a rug at weddings and — talk about impossibly high standards — always strive to be the first ones on the dance floor. So, Dance, thank you for your unwitting, non-consensual support of this show! And, friends, we hope you’ll listen to this episode and then make your way to the dance floor! (We won’t be offended if you dance first and listen later.)