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

Publications:

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

Presentations & Speeches:

• Reasonable ROI Tracking (2010): A workshop created in Partnership between the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers and TCC Group
• Evaluating Success for Arts Organization (2010): A workshop created for a cohort of regional arts organizational in the western region.
• Evaluation Consulting with Funders—What All Consultants Should Know (2010): presented to the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers
• A Foundation-to-Foundation Partnership: What Went Right, What Took Time (2010): presentation to the American Evaluation Association
• 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, Director of Evaluation, brings to the firm experience in program evaluation, management and administration as well as organizational assessment.

While at TCC Group, Johnson has contributed to organizational assessment and strategic planning engagements and served as a principal investigator and project manager for many evaluations. Clients include foundations (community, private and corporate) and nonprofit organizations (including universities, school districts, individual schools, museums, and several educational organizations).

Johnson has conducted and written on a "community of learners" approach to evaluation which emphasizes client involvement, capacity building and learning as the cornerstones of any evaluation assignment. Johnson has a particular affinity for working with organizations dedicated to education, professional development and/or learning such as museums as well as formal (e.g., school districts, schools, programs for teachers, etc.) and informal (e.g., after school programs, community based learning programs, clubs, etc.) educational institutions and entities. She also has considerable experience in using data to inform the design and evaluation of capacity building programs.

In addition to her work with education or data for learning focused entities, Johnson has worked with a host of funders in developing evaluation designs, frameworks and plans; examining funder-to-funder partnerships; evaluating research producing entities and/or active science centers; engaging in portfolio level outcomes assessments; and measuring community-based results and impact.

Prior to her work with TCC Group, Johnson was a project manager and principal investigator with the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory—one of ten 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/impacts of their work (or funding).

Johnson has conducted program evaluations for a range of organizations including state departments of education, school districts, private foundations, and non-profit associations. She has considerable experience in qualitative (needs assessments, focus groups, and interviews) and quantitative data collection (survey research, analysis of national data bases) 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.

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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