Chantell Johnson

Education: BS: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science, MA: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in Public Administration
Service Expertise: evaluation, organizational assessment, strategic planning, and evaluation capacity building
TCC Practice Areas: Nonprofit and Evaluation

Publications:

• Creating a Community of Learners within Your Nonprofit: What's the Secret?

Presentations & Speeches:

• Co-led, "Evaluation Tools You can Use: Designing and Conducting Evaluation," Association of Consultants to Nonprofits
• Co-presented "Evaluating Capacity-Building Efforts," Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
• Presented at N-Ten, the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network
• "Marketing your Organization's Impact," North Park University Axelson Center Symposium

Chantell Johnson, Associate Director of Evaluation, has experience in program evaluation, management and administration, as well as organizational assessment and strategic planning.

At TCC Group, Johnson has contributed to organizational assessment and strategic planning engagements and served as a principal investigator and project manager for several evaluations. Clients include both foundations (community and private) and nonprofit organizations (including universities, school districts, individual schools, museums, and several educational organizations). Some of these clients include the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and the John G. Shedd Aquarium, as well as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Northwest Area Foundation.

Johnson has conducted program evaluations for a range of organizations including state departments of education, school districts (including Newark Public Schools), private foundations, and nonprofit associations. She has considerable experience in qualitative (needs assessments, focus groups, and interviews) and quantitative (survey research, analysis of national databases) data collection and analysis. Her work is grounded in sound methodological practices and is aimed at providing formative and summative data to inform the strategic decisions of the stakeholders with whom she works.

Prior to her work with the firm, Johnson was a project manager and principal investigator with the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory-one of 10 federally funded research and development labs nationwide. While at the lab, she managed and led several program evaluations, including the evaluation of two US Department of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grants. Additionally, she worked on the development and pilot testing of an internal evaluation and reporting system designed to assist organizations in assessing their performance (quality assurance) and the outcomes and impacts of their work (or funding).

In addition to her work in research and evaluation, Johnson has experience in program administration. As a consultant to a regional association, she administered several programs including a college-readiness and scholarship program for youth in Chicago as well as a technology professional development program for faculty at private colleges in two Midwest states. Johnson received her Master's in Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her Bachelor's of Science in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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