I got some great news recently. I’ve been included on the Ian Potter Foundation’s list of External Evaluation Providers. This is a list kept by the Ian Potter Foundation to support their grantees to engage external evaluation support. The Foundation also makes that list public, so that other organisations can… Read More »Martina is listed as an Ian Potter Foundation External Evaluation Provider
The 2026 Australian Evaluation Society international evaluation conference in Darwin was a great experience, particularly our Great (Mostly Serious) Crowd-Sourced Debate! What’s a crowd-sourced debate, you ask? We came up with this fun alternative to the traditional debate format to build audience engagement – we wanted to make sure people… Read More »The Great (Mostly Serious) Crowd-Sourced Debate at aes26 Darwin
I’m increasingly interested in methods – how do we find things out? Why do we think that’s a good way to find things out? What are the choices we can make that lead to this being a better way to find things out? When I worked on the CCCWP evaluation… Read More »Getting better data – Participatory Analysis Workshops
Applying for the FY26 Perpetual Impact Grant? Save yourself time, effort and heartache by using my FY26 Perpetual Drafting Document. Drafting your document directly into the online form is bad practice. The form might fail to save, and you’ll lose all your work. You won’t be able to share the… Read More »Download your free FY26 Perpetual Impact Grant Drafting Document
AI transcription software is changing the ways we do qualitative data analysis, and we’re not paying attention. That’s the title of the Ignite presentation I delivered at #aes25cbr the 2025 Australian Evaluation Society International Conference in Canberra. I thought I might try transforming that presentation into a blog post, too.… Read More »AI transcription software is changing data analysis
As part of my Master of Evaluation studies at the University of Melbourne, I wrote a book review of Michael Quinn Patton’s Blue Marble Evaluation. I think it’s an interesting read, so why not repurpose my assignment as a blog post? 😊 First published in April 2021. Expanding perspectives on… Read More »Blue Marble Evaluation
This book should be essential reading (or listening!) for anyone who works around government – public servants, consultants, funded organisations, and more. This is a book for those of us who wonder at how bad policy and programs are developed and sustained. It shows the chains of decisions and micro-edits… Read More »Book review – Rick Morton’s Mean Streak
Sometimes, people ask me to do masterclasses, webinars and intro sessions for their communities about grant writing. And, I’m really happy to oblige! Back in 2020, the fabulous Bek Lambert from Freelance Jungle asked me to have a chat to the community about grant writing. This was in the early… Read More »Intro class – tips and tricks for better grant writing
A while ago, I was invited to have a chat with Rachel and Lynne on The Content Byte, a podcast for freelancers writers and content creators. It was a really fun chat, and great to be able to share a bit about how grant writing works. For summer 2024/25, Rachel… Read More »Martina on The Content Byte podcast
This is an extract from my course Grant Writing For Freelance Grant Writers. If you’d like to learn more, you can join the course here. If you’d like to discuss how to apply this thinking to your own work, send me an email or book in a strategy call today.… Read More »The Win-Win-Win Nature of Successful Grant Applications
