What is the role of evaluators in a… April 6, 2020 | Arianne Kieve At a time when everything seems to be changing rapidly and communities are scrambling to ensure basic needs are met, direct service providers, government agencies, and philanthropic ventures are quickly…
Asking sexual orientation and identity questions in a… February 11, 2020 | Arianne Kieve When asking questions about sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in surveys, it is important to understand the preferred terms and language to the best of our abilities.…
Where to find Harder+Company at #eval19 November 5, 2019 | Arianne Kieve Next week we will meet with our evaluation colleagues in Minneapolis at the upcoming Evaluation 2019, the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association. If you also plan to be there, we…
New Ownership for Harder+Company June 19, 2019 | Arianne Kieve We are pleased to announce that four of our own outstanding executives are assuming ownership of our company. Nicole Bracy, Jennifer James, Cristina Magaña, and Allison Wolpoff possess extraordinary talent…
Partnering for the Long Haul: Building Evaluation from… May 24, 2019 | Arianne Kieve Our five-year partnership with Genesys Works Bay Area (GWBA), a program that provides professional job skills training and technology-sector internships to low-income high school students, allowed us to witness its…
The Messiness of Cross-Sector Collaboration April 3, 2019 | Carly Chillmon Working together seems like a commonsense goal for social sector organizations to have. But when it comes to actual practice, things can get pretty messy. Over the past 19 years,…