Andrea Harris

Andrea Harris brings broad international experience to the Cornerstone team, from multi-national grantmaking, governance and project management, to nonprofit organizational management and education and policy analysis capacity building work. Her current consulting work focuses on: non-profit governance, public-private partnerships, organizational effectiveness for not-for-profit organizations, program evaluation and philanthropy effectiveness assessments, regional affairs for CIS/South Caucasus. During her work as an independent consultant, Harris has conducted a variety of evaluations and project design efforts. She has a background in conflict education with USIP and is familiar with conflict analysis and participatory evaluation methods suitable for use in areas affected by conflict.

From 2003 to 2007, she served as Regional Vice President for the South Caucasus with Eurasia Foundation. In this capacity, she was responsible for all operations of three place-based country operations (in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia) and two cross-border thematic-based program divisions. She served as chief representative for the Foundation in the South Caucasus region, coordinating regularly with other prominent INGOs and bilateral and multilateral donors. In this position, Harris oversaw evaluation efforts for both place-based and thematically-driven grants programs and operations. She forged the programmatic and legal foundations for spinoff of local foundations (now operating as the Eurasia Partnership Foundations in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia) and participated in senior leadership of the wider Eurasia network, spanning Russia, East Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. This affords her extensive familiarity with issues of multi-location, thematic and place-based programming. 

From 2001-2003, Harris developed, launched and managed a three-country research capacity building initiative (the Caucasus Research Resource Centers, or CRRC) which operates under Eurasia’s umbrella in the South Caucasus; prior to that she launched and managed the Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC), an economics capacity-building program in Russia and Ukraine that enjoyed the support of a consortium of 12 international donor agencies and foundations. During each of these assignments, she served as a key staff liaison within the Eurasia network managing relationships between thematic and place-based program hubs, and their relationship with a shared headquarters operations. Harris managed regular internal and external evaluations of program effectiveness, and oversaw implementation of program adjustments as a consequence of these evaluative processes. 

 

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