"Dear Dr. Morrison-Rodriguez:
What can we say but thank you for graciously donating your time and wealth of knowledge to the WEDU Be More Effective Workshop on Tuesday, September 12, 2006.
Surveys collected after the event reflected your portion of the workshop as one of the highest rated sessions of the day. Participants stated your presentation was extremely helpful and informative, thus achieving our goal to provide attendees an opportunity to "be more effective" in their day-to-day operations at their respective non-profit organizations." |
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Laura Turner
WEDU
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| “Dr. Morrison-Rodriguez
continues her association with Baptist Community
Ministries in a variety of roles which she transitions
professionally and competently. She has served,
and continues to serve, as program evaluator for
our grants. Feedback from grantee organizations
has been uniformly positive, typically identifying
skills such as effective communicator and teacher,
personable with staff, and demonstrates technical
proficiency and sound guidance.
[As a consultant to Foundation
management] she is an exceptional listener, continuously
tailoring her interventions to those she is working
with , as well as the organizational culture
and conditions within which the work is taking
place. She is well versed and experienced in
research and evaluation skills. Coupled with
her practical orientation, her technical skill
has significantly informed the work of this organization.”
Lauri Ashton, Ph.D.
Evaluation and Research Officer
Baptist Community Ministries
New Orleans, Louisiana
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director of a nonprofit organization dedicated
to social and community change. Dr. Morrison-Rodriguez
has been extremely suited to the task of working
with us through implementation of program innovation
and management systems. She has been instrumental
in moving staff and board to a new appreciation
an engagement in empowerment evaluation methods.
Her manner is unfailingly professional, focused
and sincere. She communicates her ideas forcefully,
but respectfully. She is very sensitive to group
dynamics and adept at recognizing and working through
difficult issues with the group.”
Daniella Levine, JD,
MSW
Executive Director
Human Services Association
Miami, Florida
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you know how much the staff and I enjoyed working
with Dr. Barbara Morrison-Rodriguez. She was extremely
helpful with assisting in creation of a logic model
approach to the church nurse program which included
evaluation instruments and nurse documentation.
She was professional, cooperative, helpful, and
a general pleasure to work with. The success of
our program can be in part attributed to her hard
work and efforts on our behalf.
Janet Di
Leo
Director
Congregational Wellness Division
The McFarland Institute
New Orleans, Louisiana
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“ I have worked
with Dr. Morrison-Rodriguez in the area Empowerment
Evaluation for almost four years and found her
technical expertise, her ability to communicate
the technical aspects of evaluation , . . . the
value of program evaluation to non-evaluators,
and her ability to move groups forward to be excellent.
She is certainly an asset to this organization.
She is in her third year under contract with us
for evaluation consulting. She is a pleasure to
work with, reliable and always has the best interests
of the organization in mind. I find her to be an
extraordinarily valuable resource and am confident
you will have the same experience.”
Rhonda
Davis Poirier, Dr. PH
President and CEO
JaxCare (Health Care Program for the Uninsured)
Jacksonville, Florida |
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" It was indeed an honor to have you facilitate the
Strategic Planning session during the FOCAL Board/Staff
Retreat in Shocco Springs.
We were enlightened and enriched by the techniques you
taught and feel we have come away with a plan that can
be easily implemented and followed over the next two-year
period. As important, we believe that we have found a wonderful resource
and
a friend for our work. We are looking forward to getting
started on this journey that will increase our overall
FOCAL membership, spread the CATCH Program and strengthen
our FOCAL board."
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Sophia Bracy Harris
Federation of Child Care Centers of Alabama Inc.
Montgomery, AL
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"This is just a short note to express our appreciation
for the excellent presentation and facilitation
that you provide to the Baptist Community Ministries
Board of Trustees at their annual retreat in Point
Clear. Your work was thoughtful and reflected your
sense of the foundation world and the findings
of our focus groups... Thanks partly to you, we
are off tho a great start as we study the ramifications
of the entire scope of our work."
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Byron Harriel President
Baptist Community Ministries |
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"Dr. Morrison-Rodriguez has been instrumental in making evaluation
a
viable and essential management tool for Heartland for
Children. She
has the skills to blend topic expertise and knowledge
with realistic
strategies to help us lay the foundation from design
through
implementation in this dynamic and complex child welfare
privatization
lead agency."
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Marcie Biddleman
Director - Heartland for Children -
Privatized Childwelfare Agency for District 14 in Florida |
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