Coalition Evaluation

This episode I chat with Ann Webb Price and Susan Wolfe about coalition evaluation, partnering together in evaluation, the independent consulting TIG of AEA, and so much more!

Topics & Resources Mentioned:

• How Ann and Susan started working together
• What is coalition evaluation?
• How coalition evaluation uses a systems approach
• Advice for doing coalition evaluation, including not just "but why?" but "but why here?"
• Community Coalition Action Theory, which one book they recommend is Ignite!
• Tearless logic model approach
• How they are adapting their approaches to Covid-19
• Workshops on coalitions and evaluation
• A new partnership: Positive Impact Consultants
• The independent consulting TIG of the American Evaluation Association

Contact:

• Ann Price: Community Evaluation Solutions, Positive Impact Consultants, and Twitter (@AnnWPrice)
• Susan Wolfe: Susan Wolfe and Associates or email [email protected]/
• EvaluLand: Website & Twitter (@EvaluLand)

About the guests:

Ann Webb Price: Ann Price is a community psychologist and evaluator based in Georgia. She helps community coalitions, and nonprofit and foundation leaders identify the root causes of social problems and harness their evidence in order to create real community change. Ann is active in AEA, mentors new and emerging evaluators through her office hours and the Independent Consulting IC Chats, and speaks and trains on evaluation and community coalitions. Ann blogs regularly about community coalitions, evaluation use, and evaluation for non-evaluators and in 2021 will launch her new podcast called Community Possibilities.

Susan Wolfe: Susan Wolfe enjoys evaluation work when it is complex and challenging while focusing on equity and social justice. She has been a Community Consultant with Susan Wolfe and Associates since 2009 where much of her work focuses on community coalitions. In 2020 she teamed up with Ann Webb Price and Kyrah K. Brown to co-edit an issue of New Directions for Evaluation – Evaluating Community Coalitions and Collaboratives.

Music by Matt Ingelson, http://www.mattingelsonmusic.com/