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• 10 Common Mistakes That Keep Respondents from Completing Your Survey
• 2011 Blog Reader Survey Results
• Are You Focused on The Process or The Impact?
• Ask Nicole: How Can I Build My Evaluation Skills?
• Ask Nicole: Should Research Come Before Evaluation?
• Ask Nicole: What Exactly Are You Evaluating?
• Ask Nicole: What’s the Difference between Research and Evaluation?
• Asset Mapping as a Community Organizing Tool  
• Be Grassroots and Data Driven 
• Before Your Start Collecting Data, Read This
• But Does it Make a Difference?
• (Guest Post) Reflective Ways for Evaluators to Raise the Voices of Women and Girls of Color in Feminist Evaluation (American Evaluation Association, October 5, 2015)
• How Can Nonprofts Balance Positive and Negative Feedback?
• How Nonprofits Can Build a Bias for Action
• How to Weave Storytelling with Statistics 
• Participate in My 2011 Blog Reader Survey (CLOSED)
• Participate in My 1 Year Blog Anniversary Contest! (CLOSED)
• Program Evaluation for Women & Girls of Color (Part One): How I Developed My Passion for Evaluation Practice
• Program Evaluation for Women & Girls of Color (Part Two): 7 Reasons Why Evaluation is Intimidating
• Program Evaluation for Women & Girls of Color (Part Three): Develop The Evaluation Questions You Want to Answer
• Program Evaluation for Women & Girls of Color (Part Four): Do You Need Quantitative…or Qualitative Data?
• Program Monitoring & Evaluation: Leveraging Your Strengths and Smoothing Out the Hiccups
• Reproductive Justice: Your Struggles, Your Recommendations [INFOGRAPHIC]
• Tackling Teen Pregnancy Prevention: A Comparison of Solutions
• Tailor Your Strategy to Capture Your Stakeholders’ Attention
• Try This: A Simple Way to Get Program Feedback
• Try This: Appreciative Inquiry 
• Try This: Ask Better Questions
• Try This: Curb Your Evaluation Anxiety
• Try This: Data Sense Making
• Try This: Fortunately, Unfortunately 
• Try This: I Like, I Wish, I Wonder
• Try This: Increase Your Staff and Stakeholders’ Engagement and Collaboration
• Try This: Move Away from Funder-Driven Evaluation 
• Try This: Prioritizing Data Findings
• Try This: Roll The Dice
• Try This: The Cookie Exercise
• Try This: The Journey Map
• Try This: The RFP “YES” Checklist 
• Try This: The World Cafe
• We Have the Right Problem. Let’s Find the Right Solution
• What Do You Want to See in a Reproductive Justice Action Toolkit?
• What Gets Measures Doesn’t Always Matter
• What I Wish My Mom Would Have Told Me About Sex: The Results!
• (White Paper) Evaluating Culture Change Around Abortion: Insights from a Multidisciplinary Learning Community (Provide, Inc., March 16, 2021)
• Who Are the People Behind The Numbers?
• When You’re Clear on What You Need, It’s Easier to Measure Your Impact 

• 4 Proven Ways to Create Effective Programs & Workshops for Youth
• Ask Nicole: Balancing Participant Feedback & Staff Capacity
• Ask Nicole: How to Brings Your Ideas to Life in Your Workshop/Training
• Ask Nicole: Why Logic Models Set Up Nonprofits for Failure
• Ask Nicole: Our Program Design is Outdated
• Ask Nicole: The Four Keys to Flexible Programs 
• Ask Nicole: We’re Facing Pushback for Expanding Our Programs 
• Bringing Your Program to a New Community
• Common Workshop Terminology 
• Do You Know Who You’re Talking To?: Effective Messaging for Young Women of Color 
• (Guest Post) Engaging Young Women of Color in Program Design & Evaluation (American Evaluation Association, August 18, 2014)
• How to Authentically Engage for Lasting Impact
• One Key Strategy to Set the Tone for Your Workshop
• Parent-Child Communication: Keepin’ it Real Around the Kitchen Table
• Stop Prioritizing “One-Size-Fits-All” Solutions
• The Key to Making Actionable Logic Models 
• Try This: Brainwriting for Rapid Engagement
• Try This: Context vs Content
• Try This: Discover Your True Color
• Try This: In Person vs Online Workshop Prep
• Try This: Including Pleasure in Youth Sex Education
• Try This: let’s Update Your Program
• Try This: Pivot Your Programs & Services 
• Try This: Put the Pieces Together 
• Try This: Reproductive Justice & Program Design
• Try This: The A & B Conversation 
• Try This: The Knowledge-Power Chart
• Try This: Update Your Logic Model
• Try This: Use the Teach Back Method to Improve Your Workshop Facilitation Skills
• Why Do Ice Breakers Suck So Much? (And How to Bypass the Awkwardness)
• Why Staff Are Struggling with Your Programs
• Your Staff Knows Your Programs Better Than You

• Advice for the Introverted Facilitator
• Ask Nicole: How Can I Get Hired for Workshops & Speaking Engagements?
• Ask Nicole: The #1 Misconception About Meeting Facilitators 
• Choosing Your Community Partners Wisely 
• Planning and Facilitating Valuable Workshops (Part One): Things to Consider Before You Begin 
• Planning and Facilitating Valuable Workshops (Part Two): How to Structure a Workshop for Maximum Impact
• Planning and Facilitating Valuable Workshops (Part Three): Sharpen Your Facilitation Skills
• Planning & Facilitating Valuable Workshops (Part Four): Evaluating Your Workshop
• Surviving Awkward Facilitation Moments
• Try This: Evaluate Your Facilitation 
• Try This: Get Your Ideal Community Partners On Board

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• Are You a Convener, Catalyst, Conduit, or Funder?
• Ask Nicole: Improving Capacity vs. Scaling Up
• Ask Nicole: Managing Nonprofit Mission with Funder Demands
• Ask Nicole: Why Strategic Plans Usually Fail 
• Ask Nicole: What to Do with Ineffective Board Members?
• Ask Nicole: What Would It Take for Our Organization to No Longer Exist?
• Closest to the Problem, Closest to the Solution
• Create Your Board of Directors Balance & Alignment Plan 
• Let’s Build a Partnership
• Should We Have a Role in This Partnership?
• Try This: Assess Staff & Board Buy-In
• Try This: Check In on Your Strategic Plan
• Try This: Narrow Your Partnership Focus
• Try This: Take a Bird’s Eye View
• Try This: The SOAR Analysis
• What’s in it for Me?: Evaluating Stakeholder Engagement 
• You Know Your Community Better Than Your Funder 
• Your Plan B Should Be as Strong as Your Plan A

• 3 Ways to Reflect After a Client Relationship Ends
• 10 Lessons Learned in My First Year of Full Time Consulting
• A Project is Never Just a Project
• Am I On The Right Track?: Evaluating Nicole Clark Consulting 
• Ask Nicole: 4 Ways to Become Better at What You Do
• Ask Nicole: Are Newsletters Valuable? 
• Ask Nicole: Being Honest about Your Capacity
• Ask Nicole: Be Honest about Your Organizational Culture
• Ask Nicole: Did You Ever Quit Your Day Job to Run Your Business Full-Time?
• Ask Nicole: Find Your Niche to Attract Your Ideal Client
• Ask Nicole: Hire a Consultant vs. Do It Yourself
• Ask Nicole: How Can I Be More Culturally Responsive?
• Ask Nicole: How Can I Convince Clients to Focus on the Process AND the Outcome?
• Ask Nicole: How Can I Stop Potential Clients from Ghosting Me?
• Ask Nicole: How Do I Decide Whether or Not to Give Up?
• Ask Nicole: How Do I Develop Thick Skin?
• Ask Nicole: How Do I Get Friends and Family to Support My Goals?
• Ask Nicole: How Do I Get into Consulting?
• Ask Nicole: How Do I Avoid Mission Creep?
• Ask Nicole: How Do You Find Consulting Clients?
• Ask Nicole: How to Deal with Imposter Syndrome
• Ask Nicole: I Have Too Many Clients (!!!)
• Ask Nicole: Keeping Your Sanity as a Solopreneur, Part One: Mindset
• Ask Nicole: Keeping Your Sanity as a Soloprenuer, Part Two: Tools & Processes 
• Ask Nicole: Keeping Your Sanity as a Solopreneur, Part Three: Be Multipassionate 
• Ask Nicole: Keeping Your Sanity as a Solopreneur, Part Four: Build Community 
• Ask Nicole: Keeping Your Sanity as a Solopreneur, Part Five: Work/Life Balance
• Ask Nicole: My Best & Worst Client Experiences
• Ask Nicole: My #1 Rule for Effective Networking
• Ask Nicole: My #1 Rule for Marketing Yourself on Social Media
• Ask Nicole: Partnership with Other Consultants
• Ask Nicole: Prepping for Your Consultant/Partner Discovery Call 
• Ask Nicole: Pros & Cons of Naming Your Business After Yourself 
• Ask Nicole: Reasons for Turning Down a Prospective Client
• Ask Nicole: Reflecting on 8 Years of Full Time Consulting 
• Ask Nicole: Responding to Partnership Requests
• Ask Nicole: Should I Stop Responding to Requests for Proposals?
• Ask Nicole: The #1 Question to Ask When Hiring a Consultant 
• Ask Nicole: The Best Time to Look for a Consultant
• Ask Nicole: The Best Way to Follow Up With Former Clients
• Ask Nicole: Trust & the Client-Consultant Relationship
• Ask Nicole: We’ve Hired Too Many Consultants
• Ask Nicole: What Does Your Day as a Consultant Look Like?
• Ask Nicole: What Should I Do With “Pick My Brain” Requests?
• Ask Nicole: Why Am I Doing This?
• Back to Basics
• Career Leaps, Insecurities, and What’s Next 
• Five Years of Full Time Consulting: My Biggest Lesson Learned 
• Here’s How to Create Your Potential Client Questionnaire
• How to Manage the Growing Pains of Being an Expert 
• Living in the End
• Play Bigger: What I’m Learning After Three Years of Full Time Consulting
• Putting Equity in the RFP Process
• What to Do During Your First Days with a New Client
• When Your Personal Values and Your Professional Ethics Don’t Align
• Women of Color: Be Unapologetic in Your Expertise
• You Didn’t Feel Like Blogging This Week Too? (and Helpful Ways to Ditch Your Blogging Slump)

• 10 Reasons Why Your Daughter Won’t Talk to You About Sex
• Ask Nicole: Advice on Being a Better Health Educator
• Ask Nicole: Any Advice for Social Workers Leaving New York City?
• Ask Nicole: Any Advice for Social Workers Moving to New York City?
• Ask Nicole: Dealing with the Death of a Client
• Ask Nicole: How Did You Pass the LMSW Exam on the First Try?
• Ask Nicole: I’m Uncomfortable Working with Certain Clients
• Ask Nicole: “Is a Career as a Reproductive Justice Social Worker Even Possible?”
• Ask Nicole: Should Child Protective Services Get Involved with a Young Woman Seeks an Abortion?
• Ask Nicole: The Role of Social Workers in Reproductive Justice
• Ask Nicole: Using Social Work Skills as a Consultant
• Ask Nicole: What Do You Wish You Had Known Before Becoming a Social Worker?
• Ask Nicole: What Don’t You Like About Social Work?
• Ask Nicole: What is a Public Health Social Worker?
• (Guest Post) How AEA’s Guiding Principles Sign with the Social Work Code of Ethics (American Evaluation Association, September 17, 2017)
• (Guest Post) Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Social Work: Why They Matter in Evaluation (American Evaluation Association, March 7, 2016)
• HIV 101: KIlling the Stigma Behind the Disease (guest post by Diamond Cartel)
• How Can Adults Help Teens in Unhealthy Relationships?
• Review: The Stress Management Workbook: De-stress in Under 10 Minutes or Less
• There’s More Than One Way to Be a Social Worker
• Tomorrow’s Another Day
• Why Social Workers Make the Best Reproductive Justice Activists
• Women of Color & the Diversity of Social Work

• Ask Nicole: How Are You Doing?
• Is Social Media Causing Your Activist Burnout? 
• Putting Community in Self Care
• Self Care Corner: 7 Step Prescription for Self Love
• Self Care Corner: Be Kind To Yourself 
• Self Care Corner: Beware of “Greener Grass” Syndrome
• Self Care Corner: Change the Narrative 
• Self Care Corner: Create a 30 Day Gratitude Jar
• Self Care Corner: Create Your “Calm Down Kit”
• Self Care Corner: Create Your Introvert & Extrovert Self Care Plan
• Self Care Corner: Create Your Self Care Policies & Procedures Manual
• Self Care Corner: Face Your Worst Case Scenario
• Self Care Corner: Forgive Yourself
• Self Care Corner: How to Work Through Compassion Fatigue
• Self Care Corner: Identify Your “Breathe” Supports
• Self Care Corner: Intentional Boredom 
• Self Care Corner: Mindful Eating 
• Self Care Corner: Pass Around a Compliment
• Self Care Corner: Prioritize Your Lightest Weight
• Self Care Corner: Representation Burnout
• Self Care Corner: Staying Friends with Your Ex (?)
• Self Care Corner: Take the Self Care Assessment 
• Self Care Corner: The “Well Done” List
• Self Care Corner: Write Down Your Successes
• Self Care Corner: You Might Be Suffering from Resistance Fatigue
• Self Care Corner: Your Friendships Are Just As Important As Your Relationships
• Take Care of Yourself: 5 Ways to Make 2012 Your Healthiest Year
• The Revolution Starts with Me (guest post by Adaku Utah)
• Try This: Create Your Recipes, Remedies, Rituals, and Resources for Self Care
• Try This: Identify Self Care Activities to Start, Continue, & Stop 
• We’re All in This Together: Women & Girls of Color Supporting Each Other
• What Do You Do When Self Care Isn’t An Option?
• You Don’t Have to Go to Every Rally: Self Care & Activist Burnout

• 8 Online Resources to Jump-Start Your Reproductive Rights Activism 
• Ask Nicole: Applying Reproductive Justice Beyond Programs & Services
• Ask Nicole: How Are You Raising Your Voice for Women & Girls of Color?
• Ask Nicole: How Can I Raise My Voice When No One is Around to Hear Me?
• Ask Nicole: How Can We Create More Affirming Spaces for Women & Girls of Color?
• Ask Nicole: How to Support Your Local Abortion Fund
• Ask Nicole: My Favorite Reproductive Justice Resources
• Ask Nicole: Why Do You Only Care About Women & Girls of Color?
• B for Baby, C for Crazy (guest post by Candace Salim)
• Blow The Whistle on Street Harassment! 
• Call to Action: Teens, Sex Tapes, & Why We’ve Got to Do Better 
• Can We Love God & Sex?: Religion, Media, and Young Women’s Sexuality
• Change the Narrative: Focusing on the Strengths of Young Women of Color
• Didn’t You Forget Me? A Queer Black Feminist’s Analysis of the Black Marriage Debate (guest post by Taja Lindley)
• Fighting Hate Within the LGBTQ Community (guest post by Javania Webb)
• Get Ready for Let’s Talk About Sex: Love, Legislation, Leadership
• (Guest Post) “Common Sense” Isn’t So Common: How Preventing Access to Plan B Affects Young Women of Color (Feministing, December 15, 2011)
• (Guest Post) Supporting Maternal Mental Health During COVID-19 (Mathematica, May 7, 2021)
• (Guest Post) Infusing Social Work & Reproductive Justice To Advocate for Women’s Sexual Health (The New Social Worker, December 30, 2011)
• (Guest Post) This is the Movement of Our Generation: SisterSong “Let’s Talk About Sex” (Opinioness of the World, July 2011)
• (Guest Post) What is Social Justice? (American Evaluation Association, January 19, 2020)
• How Are You Raising Your Voice in 2013?
• How Can Red States and Blue States Work Together for Reproductive Justice?
• How Has Mentoring Transformed Your Life?
• How “Sending the Elevator Back Down” Promotes Equity
• How Will You Raise Your Voice for Reproductive Justice in 2014?
• I Blame My Mama (…or How I Got into the Sexual Health Movement)
• Keeping the Faith in the Pro Choice Movement 
• Let’s Talk About Sex: Love, Legislation, & Leadership Conference (Day 1- LOVE)
• Let’s Talk About Sex: Love, Legislation, & Leadership Conference (Day 2- LEGISLATION)
• Let’s Talk About Sex: Love, Legislation, & Leadership Conference (Day 3- LEADERSHIP)
• Let’s Talk About Sex: Love, Legislation, & Leadership Conference (Day 4- THE AFTERGLOW)
• Lifting Up & Supporting Teen Mothers
• “My Name is…and I Represent…”
• Once You Decide to Become an Activist, You Never Leave It. It’s What You Do
• Pay It Forward: 10 Women of Color Making the World a Better Place for Girls
• Raise Your Voice with Activism: Lesson 1- Lobbying
• Raise Your Voice with Activism: Lesson 2- Writing Campaigns & Action Alerts
• Raise Your Voice with Activism: Lesson 3- Social Media 
• Raise Your Voice with Activism: Lesson 4: Rallies, Protests, and Civil Disobedience 
• Self Love is the Best Love: National Masturbation Month
• Should I Pass You the Mic, or Speak For You?
• Sign On to Support the “No Stigma! No Shame!” Campaign
• Sign the Petition!: 9 Ways to Improve the Health & Lives of Women & Girls
• Stepping Up: 10 Young Women of Color Making a Difference
• Street Harassment Stops When Men Say It Stops
• The Problem with “Think Being a Teen Parent Won’t Cost You?”
• Try This: Equity Focused Conversations 
• Try This: Find Your Unlikely Allies
• Try This: How Does Health Care Look through the Reproductive Health, Rights, & Justice Frameworks?
• Try This: The Identity Wheel
• Try This: Storytelling for Reproductive Justice
• Try This: The Story of Me, The Story of Us, The Story of Now
• Two Youth-Focused Groups Leading the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in the Black Community
• We’re Fighting for More Than Just Abortion 
• What Does Reproductive Justice Actually Look Like?
• What Does Reproductive Justice Look Like in Your Community?
• What Makes Your Family a Strong Family?
• What Young Women of Color Really Want
• When Women & Girls of Color Share Our IUD Stories 
• Your Values Always Come at a Cost

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• Ask Nicole: Why Did You Move from New York City to Washington, DC?
• Before I Die: Voicing What Matters Most
• Coming Back to the Circle: Abstinence, Sex, and Decision-Making
• How My Mother’s Death Makes Me Fear Motherhood
• How My Mother’s Death Makes Me Fear Motherhood (Revisited)
• Review: “Subjectified: Nine Young Women Talk About Sex” (2013)
• The Circle: A Story About Virginity