Alison Rogers has worked in public health for over 20 years. She spent over 15 years of this time working in non-profit organisations including as an internal evaluator and an external evaluator. She has a PhD from the University of Melbourne's Centre for Program Evaluation that investigated evaluation advocates in non-profit organisations. Alison also has a Master of Evaluation and a Master of Public Health among other tertiary degrees in philosophy, health, education, and science. She currently holds an Honorary Research Fellow position with the Assessment and Evaluation Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. She has co-authored a book on internal evaluation and published 15 scholarly papers. Alison is the secretary on the executive committee of her local environmental networking group and writes book reviews and articles for their e-publication. She has recently opened a bookshop to foster a community around reading and writing. Leanne Kelly has spent nearly 20 years working in community development and social service non-profit organisations across five continents. She has worked for non-profit organisations in a broad range of disciplines (from housing and emergency services to child protection and peacebuilding) with the majority of her roles focused on evaluation. Leanne has also worked as an external evaluator for non-profit organisations, most recently in Myanmar. She has a PhD from Deakin University on evaluation in small international and community development non-profits and has published 40 scholarly papers and two books: Evaluation in Small Development Non-Profits and Internal Evaluation in Non-Profit Organisations (co-authored with Dr Alison Rogers) She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University and is the National Evaluation Advisor at the Australian Red Cross.
1. Setting the Scene 2. Facing a Problematic World 3. Exploring Underlying
Motivations 4. Finding Fulfilment 5. Cooperating With Others 6. Dealing
With People Who Disagree 7. Everyday Evaluation 8. Self-Care 9. Effective
Activism Starts With Everyday People