Julia Coffman
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Julia Coffman is a Consultant to Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP), where
she has worked since 1996. She currently manages the evaluation of the Packard
Foundation's Preschool for California's Children initiative, the evaluation
of WGBH's Social Impact Campaign on global health, and coordinates work on HFRP's
quarterly periodical, The Evaluation Exchange.
Coffman leads much of HFRP's work on evaluation, which includes helping nonprofits
and foundations integrate evaluation and strategy development, selectively conducting
evaluation in areas of particular interest, and publishing The Evaluation
Exchange, which covers topics about innovative evaluation methods, theory,
findings, and resources. Her background centers on the development and implementation
of theory of change approaches to evaluation, particularly for complex initiatives.
In recent years Julia has been merging her evaluation and communications interests,
and now researches, writes about, and practices the evaluation of public communication
efforts. Recent projects include her work with the Communications Consortium
Media Center on their multiyear project to develop for foundations and nonprofits
a set of evaluation tools that can be used with communication campaigns (see
www.mediaevaluationproject.org).
Past projects include management of HFRP's long-term evaluation of W.K.
Kellogg Foundation's Devolution Initiative.
Coffman received a master's degree in Justice Studies at Arizona State University,
with an emphasis on program evaluation and a bachelor's degree in Psychology
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She works out of her office
in Alexandria, Virginia.
See the publications Julia
Coffman has authored or coauthored at HFRP.
Email Julia Coffman at jcoffman@evaluationexchange.org.
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