Cathexis was without plumbing for a few days when a mysterious blockage developed in the city pipes. City workers showed up and, like good evaluators, drilled down to understand where in the process flow (the theory of change, if you will) things were going wrong. This involved some heavy analytical equipment: The outcome? The city… More
Cathexis turns 15
Cathexis is pleased to announce its “sweet 15”. We’re grateful for having had the chance to work with so many great clients, on so many exciting projects, over the last decade and a half. Here’s to the next 15!
Cathexis flies south
Greetings from Atlanta, where two members of our team are attending Evaluation 2016 – the American Evaluation Association’s annual conference, bringing together thousands of professional evaluators from around the world. The theme this year is Evaluation and Design, which challenges us to think about how we design programs for impact, evaluations for success, and information… More
Trees Please!
Cathexis would like to send its congratulations to the Hamilton Naturalists’ Club and Environment Hamilton for their successful application for a Developmental Evaluation coaching grant from Innoweave. Hamilton Naturalists’ Club and Environment Hamilton have partnered to implement Trees Please!, a Trillium-funded project that engages community volunteers to catalogue Hamilton’s forest cover, monitor its air quality,… More
Evaluating policy influence? Check out this guide
Originally produced to support the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Innovation Strategy Projects, A Guide to Policy-Influence Evaluation: Selected Resources and Case Studies could be useful for anyone planning and evaluating policy-influence work. The guide summarizes and references recent resources that can be used while planning an evaluation. It also includes three case studies which… More
The Cathexis Excel-lent tips & tricks
Since we use all kinds of programs daily in our evaluation work, we thought we would share some of our favourite Excel tips & tricks that we find save us time! Peter Conditional formatting – great for catching duplicates, outliers, and errors. If you highlight a group of cells, at the bottom right of the… More