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October 2013
 
AEAEarlier this month, we attended the American Evaluation Association's annual conference in Washington, D.C. Here's a recap of our sessions with links to materials and resources. Enjoy!
 
Advocacy Evaluation, Coalition Assessment, and Graphic Recording
Graphic Recording
Thanks to Cindy Banyai for snapping this photo of Kat Athanasiades' graphic recording!
We shared multiple presentations about advocacy evaluation at the recent conference.
 
Johanna Morariu and a team of evaluators discussed the top trends in advocacy evaluation. Kat Athanasiades even captured key discussion points through graphic recording! Want to learn more? Check out the presentation slides.
 
Then, Kat Athanasiades and Veena Pankaj presented about our Coalition Assessment work. Finally, Veena and Kat presented Understanding the Public Policy Landscape: Lessons from a Retrospective Evaluation
 
Want to learn more about advocacy evaluation? Check out our Pathfinder guide or our recent webinar, Nine Steps to Advocacy Evaluation.
 
Learn more about evaluation in 5-minute doses
Our team gave two Ignite presentations. First, Ann Emery talked about the differences between performance management and evaluation for nonprofits. You can watch the 5-minute presentation below:
 Performance Management and Evaluation: Two Sides of the Same Coin
 
Next, Will Fenn discussed ways that nonprofits and foundations can work together during the evaluation process:
WILLIAM FENN -- EVALUATION LESSONS FROM A PROGRAM OFFICER

As always, visit Innovation Network's YouTube channel for more recordings from our presentations.

Data Visualization for Evaluation
Ann Emery shared her top four strategies for communicating data more clearly in Excel. Missed the presentation? Here's a 5-minute excerpt:
5-minute excerpt from Ann's fuller dataviz presentation
Want to learn more? View her full slides here

Will Fenn and Ann Emery also shared tips for creating data visualizations and automated reports in R. Here are their recommended resources

Learn More
We hope these resource are useful! If you'd like access to all of our slides, handouts, and resource guides, please visit the Where We've Been page. 
 
For more than 20 years, Innovation Network has helped nonprofits and funders learn from their work and improve their results. As always, if you have feedback or questions about innonet.org or the Point K Learning Center, don't hesitate to contact us.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Johanna Morariu Johanna Morariu, Director 

jmorariu [at] innonet [dot] org

202-728-0727 x 103

 

Veena Pankaj Veena Pankaj, Director
vpankaj [at] innonet [dot] org
202-728-0727 x 107
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