When working in coalitions, defining success and monitoring progress toward it is a crucial support for long-term success.

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Collaborations want to have a shared understanding of their intended results and they want to be able to demonstrate those results to themselves and others.

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My work in evaluation has two aspects

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1. Creating evaluation processes 

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I guide organizations through the process of creating a system by which they can monitor their progress towards achieving desired results.  This may be for the work of a multi-year platform or for a specific aspect of the work.​

 

2. Doing program evaluations 

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I serve as an independent external evaluator of programs and processes.

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My Process

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My process is participatory.  I work with my client to determine their answers to three key questions:

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• Why do you want an evaluation?

• Who will use or see the evaluation report?  How will they use it?

• How much time, energy and money do you want to put into this process?

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Then we design a process to meet these needs within available resources.  I use a mix of qualitative (e.g. personal feedback on impact) and quantitative (e.g. numbers served) methods as needed by the project.

In an evaluation report (and often presentation), I reflect back to the organization my analysis of the information gathered in a format that meets their needs.

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