The OHSU-PSU School of Public Health is seeking community partners for a graduate-level course on program evaluation in Winter quarter 2020 (January to March). We are seeking human services organizations with a defined program (either active or in planning stages) in need of formal evaluation planning. Organizations receive free evaluation consultation, and offer students a meaningful community-based experience. A contact person from the organization […]

W.E.B. Du Bois’ infographics from the 1900 Paris Exhibition are currently on display at the Portland Art Museum! Here’s more about the exhibit, which runs through February: https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/color-line/. A lot has been written about this collection of infographics; this article that includes lots of the charts and graphs: https://qz.com/906774/w-e-b-du-bois-commissioned-beautiful-hand-drawn-data-visualizations-and-infographics-for-the-paris-world-fair/.

PSU’s The Nonprofit Institute is hosting FREE pilot Data Learning Center workshops. We need nonprofit professionals to help us refine this new program by attending workshops on data and evaluation, and providing feedback about their experience. Our Data Learning Center webpage lists all planned workshops and dates. Please RSVP for any scheduled workshop using this […]

October 18th | Indianapolis, IN Keynote Leslie Goodyear, PhD American Evaluation Association (AEA), Immediate Past President Evaluation Essentials: Evidence, Ethics, and Equity Conference Sessions Concurrent sessions will cover a range of evaluation best practices, approaches to communicating findings, data collection and metrics, data visualization, stakeholder engagement strategies, and quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Registration Now Open! […]

Portland State University’s (PSU) The Nonprofit Institute (NPI) is partnering with Willamette Valley Development Officers (WVDO) to offer exceptional education and training opportunities for nonprofit professionals in evaluation, development, leadership and more. A press release issued July 30, 2019 details the partnership and highlights the programs offered in partnership between NPI and WVDO. Among the […]

Portland State University is seeking to identify organizations to serve as community partners for a graduate course on program evaluation in Fall Term 2019 (September to December).  The organization needs to have a defined program for which it would like an evaluation designed, and needs to identify a contact person who will be the liaison […]

This August, Claremont Evaluation Center is offering its annual Professional Development Workshops, which provide working professionals and students with world-class practical and theoretical training in evaluation and applied research. This year’s workshop series is scheduled for August 14-18, and will feature 14 seminars covering various topics in Evaluation and Research Methods. Taught by leading academics […]

The Application for LEEAD Scholars is Now Open! The application for the Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) Program, an Expanding the Bench™ initiative led by Change Matrix is now available. We are seeking mid-career researchers from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups who aspire to become leaders in the field of evaluation. Applicants should […]

Professional Certificate in Nonprofit Program Evaluation https://www.pdx.edu/nonprofit-institute/ Practical. Personalized. Culturally-Responsive. You won’t just LEARN about program evaluation. You will DO program evaluation. Portland State University’s The Nonprofit Institute is offering the popular Professional Certificate in Nonprofit Program Evaluation. This hands-on learning opportunity utilizes an equitable framework to help nonprofit professionals develop skills for evaluating diverse […]

2019 Summer Quantitative Method Series at Portland State University June 16-17: Measurement Development and Evaluation Deborah Bandalos, James Madison University June 18-19: Introduction to Linear Models and Beyond with Stata Alan Acock, Oregon State University Read more about this series here: http://web.pdx.edu/~newsomj/SQMS/ Register here: https://www.regonline.com/SQMS2019 If you know others who might be interested in this […]