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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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If your association is lucky enough to have an investment portfolio, a discussion about risk has probably been on the board’s agenda. Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. Evaluate New Initiatives Strategic risk is a different story. Sig is right.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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I am still evaluating the lessons learned. Kristine’s Story The goal of the Kitchen Cabinet was to talk about the great things restaurants do in Milwaukee. The goals were to talk about the great things that restaurants do in their communities. More likely to be successful in advocacy and public policy.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

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This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Be the Voice of Relevance—Make Mission, Vision, and Values Fit the Moment

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A post-pandemic business environment, characterized by change and disruption, provides good reasons to open the windows and let fresh air revitalize, even fundamental concepts. is proactive about finding avenues to grow mission in a competitive environment. That’s why they also deserve frequent exploration and evaluation.

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How can nonprofits implement a strategic public policy agenda to achieve greater impact?

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Public policy and the nonprofit sector. Public policy at all levels of government has the ability to threaten the work of all nonprofits (National Council of Nonprofits, 2019). At the federal level, we see this threat in tax, regulatory, and spending policies. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Establish support.

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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

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So when I learned about Candid’s Demographics via Candid —an initiative that allows nonprofit organizations to share demographic information on their Candid nonprofit profile , where funders, donors, and researchers could easily access it—I was both intrigued and skeptical.

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