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Do we have a problem?

December 8, 2025

My husband and I have a house in the Daintree Rainforest: a world heritage listed rainforest in northern Australia. It is glorious, sitting high on a hill overlooking the Coral Sea.

It is also, as I...

Welcoming 2020 with Grace and Compassion

December 8, 2025

When people describe the qualities they want in an evaluation, many use words like ‘credible’, ‘robust’, and ‘objective’. On the face of it, this makes sense. The people who need (and want) evaluation...

Calling all University-Based Evaluators!

December 8, 2025

By: Eden Kyse, Samuel Robison, Joey Rutherford, Sarah Mason

Do you work or run a university-based evaluation center? Are you thinking about doing so? Come network, learn and brainstorm with AEA’s...

Values: Making the implicit explicit

December 8, 2025

Evaluators talk a lot about values. This makes sense. It is—quite literally—embedded into the name of our profession.

But in spite of all the talk, conversations about value don’t always make their...

Encouraging change: a wheely big task…

December 8, 2025

A short while ago a friend of mine started volunteering with a local community project* based out of her home town.

My friend owns an organic local produce stall that she runs out of an upscale food...

Join our team!

December 8, 2025

Are you passionate about evaluation as a tool for social change? Do you care about leading meaningful evaluations that give decision makers the information they need to learn and grow?
The Center for...

Three’s not a crowd: It’s a committee!

December 8, 2025

Last week we began partnering with the Mississippi Alliance for Nonprofits and Philanthropies to launch a series of four workshops designed to help nonprofits embed evaluation into their work.

Over...

So what do you do?

December 8, 2025

Do you get blank looks when you tell friends you evaluate social programs? You are not alone!

Evaluators often bemoan the fact that nobody seems to understand what they do. And while...