Marcia Festen, Marianne Philbin

Level Best (eBook, PDF)

How Small and Grassroots Nonprofits Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results

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Produktbeschreibung

Level Best offers guidance that demystifies evaluation and takes into account the unique challenges and realities of grassroots nonprofit organizations. It provides a new framework for thinking about evaluation and tools for measuring and sharing results in ways that are practical, efficient, and meaningful.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780787987558
• Artikelnr.: 37360570

Autorenporträt

Marcia Festen of Marcia K. Festen Associates in Chicago is a consultant to nonprofits and foundations.In addition to conducting evaluations, she develops policy and grantmaking strategies, programs, and initiatives. She was a senior program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and hasover twenty years of experience in the field. Marianne Philbin is a writer, trainer, and consultant specializing in nonprofit organizational development.She has worked for a wide range of foundations and nonprofit organizations, and has an extensive background in grantmaking, fundraising, and nonprofit management. She is an instructor for the Donors Forum of Chicago and a lecturer at Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Figure, Tables, Worksheets, Exhibits, Agendas. Introduction. How to Use
This Book. Instruction with Samples and Examples. 1 Understanding
Evaluation. Evaluation as Power Instead of Pain. What Evaluation Is and
What It Is Not. 2 A Simple Evaluation Framework. The Basic Evaluation
Framework. Key Concepts:What to Evaluate and How to Get Started. The
Rolling Evaluation Method. 3 Planning Your Evaluation. A Quick Review of
Basic Organizational Readiness. Definition of an Effective Organization.
What You Plan Affects What You Learn. Step by Step: Planning Your
Evaluation. Understanding Funders'Needs and Fitting Them into Your
Evaluation Plan. Why Setting Goals Makes Evaluation Easier. How You Can
Prepare. 4 Asking the Right Questions. Clear Program Goals Guide Evaluation
Questions and Choices. What to Evaluate:What You Do Versus What Your
Constituents Do. If or Then:Which to Evaluate? The Relationship Between
Evaluating What You Do (Process) and What They Do (Outcome). Determine the
Right Questions. Ask What You Really Want to Know. How Advocacy
Organizations Can Approach Evaluation. How to Be Answerable When Advocacy
and Organizing Are Your Agenda. Ideas for Measuring Organizing Efforts. 5
Tracking Information. Options for Tracking Information. The Right Goal
Statement Helps Determine the Right Things to Track. 6 Learning From and
Using the Information. Making Use of Your Information. Organizing Your
Information. Drawing Conclusions. Using What You Learn. Sharing Your
Evaluation Results with the Outside World. Feeding Results into the Cycle
of Planning. Tying Evaluation into Planning. Deciding Where to Begin.
Incorporating Evaluation into Your Strategic Planning Process. Resources. A
Commonly Used Terms and Their Definitions. B Types of Evaluation. C Sample
Completed Evaluation Planning Worksheet. D Sample Evaluation Report
Outline. E Program Evaluation Standards. Acknowledgments. About the
Authors. References. Index.