Did you make it out to our 2013 AEA presentation on shared measurement strategies? We had a great group and our collective brains had a great discussion…so great that we can’t share everything that we talked about. But, here are a few key lessons we came up with to help you the next time you… More
Adina’s review is out on the latest Fetterman Book
Adina Jacobson has contributed to the latest volume of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation (Vol 28. No. 1) with a review of David Fetterman’s Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages: Hewlett Packard’s $15 Million Race Towards Social Justice. What does she think of the book? You’ll have to check out the book review to… More
AEA Conference is here!
It feels like we just submitted our presentation abstracts and suddenly the 2013 American Evaluation Association’s conference is upon us. We are excited to join our evaluation colleagues in Washington, D.C. to share our passion for evaluation. If you happen to be at the conference, we hope to connect with you! The Cathexis team is… More
Innovation Challenge moves ahead
Guest post by Dayna Albert We did it! EvalPartners and the International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE) have awarded a consortium of five Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs), led by Burt Perrin of the European Evaluation Society (EES) and Rochelle Zorzi of the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES), to explore the value of evaluation… More
Visualize this! A lesson in data visualization
Melissa attended a workshop at the 2013 Canadian Evaluation Society Conference that was so impressive that we commissioned the presenter, Stephanie Evergreen, to conduct a webinar for the Cathexis staff. Stephanie challenged us to move beyond the tried-and-true Excel graphs towards visuals that get the message across. Gone are the days of unsightly gridlines, repetitive… More
We’re up for the EvalPartners Innovation Challenge
Hot off the press! We’ve just learned that a submission to the EvalPartners Innovation Challenge, featuring a Cathexis contribution, was successfully short listed. So, you may be wondering what exactly is the Innovation Challenge? We’ll fill you in… EvalPartners, the global partnership to strengthen national evaluation capacities, recently put forth the Innovation Challenge for Voluntary… More