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
CES Ontario 2016 AGM and more
CES Ontario will be holding their AGM this week with a special learning event (Thinking Visually: An Introduction to Data & Information Visualization) We are excited to see what CES Ontario has been up to since the last AGM and to learn some new data visualization techniques. Hope to see you all there!… More
Evaluators and more on the east coast
Q. So… what happens when you put evaluators on the east coast? A. Trail side adventures, a kitchen party, and a puffin or two all make it into the visit… topped off with attendance at the CES 2016 Annual Conference! Rochelle had a great time presenting Evaluations that Make a Difference: Stories from around… More
Student case competition 2016
With the CES 2016 Conference less than a week away, Cathexis Consulting would like to wish the 3 student case competition finalist teams good luck on their presentations next week. Check out the CES Conference website for details on seeing the competition in person.