American Evaluation Association

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

Apr 23, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.3

Gross Receipts

$1,863,919

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Member services; the primary function of member services is to provide access to information about professional practice. As part of the member services category, aea members received via the postal service a year's subscription to two journals; the american journal of evaluation (aje) and new directions for evaluation (nde). In addition, members received electronic access to the past 20+ years of archives for aje and nde as well as two other journals; evaluation and the health professions (ehp)and evaluation review (er). According to the most recent member scan, 84% had accessed and used aje, 77% had accessed and used nde, 40% had accessed and used er, and 23% had accessed and used ehp. Please note that (a) providing access to er and ehp was new for members and (b)this survey was of all members, including those who had just joined -access and use significantly increased with length of membership. Members also received access to resources via the aea website - production and maintenance of which falls within the member services category - and according to the same survey, 69% of members had accessed and used resources available through the aea website. As of the fiscal year ending 6/30/13 the association had approximately 7,874 members.

Activity 3

Professional development aea holds professional development workshops that precede and follow its annual conference. During 2011-2012, aea offered 50 separate workshops with 1,000 separate workshop registrations. The goal for the workshops is to transfer the knowledge and skills essential for high quality, ethical, exemplary, evaluation practice. Following each workshop, attendees completed an evaluation form addressing 8 criteria. Across all workshops for this time period, the average rating on a 5 point scale across multiple measures was a 4.2, equating to 'agreeing' or 'strongly agreeing' with items such as "i understand the concepts presented in the workshop" and "the workshop improved my ability to utilize skills related to the topic.

Filer

EIN

52-1463557