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JANUARY 18, 2018

As a member of the NTEN Board, I used this framework to help us work through our performance evaluation process. Yes, but only certain types of external evaluation (Pillar 7) can be undertaken by small nonprofits, namely formative evaluation. Experimental impact evaluations are too expensive.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Impact evaluation is the thrust indicators, providing measurement and evaluation of the performance. The Waterfall: This is an organization with a weak engine due to a flawed theory of change and weak impact evaluation, but there is a lot of fuel because the organizational leaders excel at marketing. This is not sustainable.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion. What might a growth mindset intervention for a nonprofit look like when going through a program evaluation process?

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APRIL 29, 2013

.” The participants were a cross-disciplinary group and included people who work at different foundations in the areas of evaluation, communication, social media, and programs as well as people who work for nonprofits and as consultants who work in evaluation, social media, network analysis, data scientists, and others.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

But it wasn’t until Active Voice brought on a full time evaluator that were we able to identify and actually measure the kind of shifts we think films can contribute to. But they don’t necessarily think of this as evaluation. Like it or not, evaluation is a crusty kind of term. Who are we trying to reach? Why this story, now?

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MARCH 14, 2012

I went to the Learning in Public session expecting to hear that the process the Packard Foundation used to evaluate their capacity building work was wildly successful. In true GEO style, Kathy Reich and Jared Raynor, the evaluator from TCC Group shared what worked and what didn’t…and what they plan to do in the future.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

One of the newest resources, a free online guide called “ The Data Playbook ,” was recently published by the Schusterman Foundation and written by Rella Kaplowitz, Program Officer, Evaluation and Learning. The four key questions are: What data to collect? Meaning Making.

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MARCH 12, 2012

Evaluation and Learning sessions help grantmakers and their partners better use evaluation to foster learning and make real-time improvements in their work. Cindy Rizzo, Senior Director, Grantmaking and Evaluation, Arcus Foundation. David Colby, Vice President, Research and Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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MARCH 15, 2012

But the next question was not so easy: “When it comes to evaluation and strategy development, there’s no such thing as “too transparent.” While I lead Evaluation and Learning at The MasterCard Foundation, part of my job is to help us be transparent about what we are learning.

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APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Tweet questions to me at @annkemery , comment on Excel for Evaluation to request tutorials, or email me to request in-person training. Finally, ask for help.

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MARCH 16, 2012

Evaluation and Learning sessions help grantmakers and their partners better use evaluation to foster learning and make real-time improvements in their work. Cindy Rizzo, Senior Director, Grantmaking and Evaluation, Arcus Foundation. David Colby, Vice President, Research and Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. .” This is a simple process for getting participants to prioritize ideas or decisions. You use this to follow a brainstorming activity which may yield an abundance of new ideas. Dot voting is a visual way to see where the interest is and generate a robust discussion about the options.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Is the evaluation of your program something management needs to assess the performance of your organization as a whole? One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

Evaluate the Campaign Climate. This framework leads you through a logical decision-making chain where each step and decision builds upon the next. The six simple stages to successful campaign planning are: Define the Victory. Chart the Course. Choose Your Influence Strategy. Message for Impact. Manage the Campaign.

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MARCH 15, 2012

Fifteen of us met for 90 minutes to share, commiserate, trade ideas and think about our work at the intersection of evaluation, knowledge management and organizational learning. Luckily, the learning, evaluation and knowledge management pioneers want to keep talking and meeting. Just let me know and I’ll put you on the list.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

More importantly, after every class I facilitate, I do a debrief with students as part of evaluating the training. This combination of advanced planning and evaluation helps one continuously improve their instructional design. I ask them to generate a list of keep, tweak, and delete.

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use by Michael Quinn Patton. Michael Quinn Patton is the godfather of evaluation. This book will give you a way to be more intentional about your social media work and improve it.

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MARCH 13, 2018

A second process is used to evaluate the ideas – clustering the ideas into themes and identifying the best ones. A second process is used to evaluate the ideas – clustering the ideas into themes and identifying the best ones. After people have reviewed the ideas, it is time to have a follow up meeting to evaluate the ideas.

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APRIL 17, 2013

EDT, with RWJF staff Debra Joy Perez (@djoyperez), assistant vice president, Research and Evaluation, and Tina Kauh (@tinakauh), program officer, Research and Evaluation and moderated by Kami Huyse from Zoetica. Join RWJF online Thursday, April 18, at 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time for the Twitter chat using the hashtag #SM_RE.

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MARCH 13, 2012

The session was about transparency and conducting evaluations. One of the takeaways was that in order to pursue this type of learning, organizational culture was the key indicator to success. Peter’s post shares some ideas about cultivating a learning culture and while written for funders, these are applicable to nonprofits.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Packard and the TCC Group collaborated on an alternative approach evaluating the foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program. All evaluation data was posted on a public wiki.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. This is evaluation.

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MAY 10, 2011

Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Priority should be given to retaining and emphasizing human characteristics in decision making processes and evaluations. . Organizations should protect against the ‘datafication’ of workers and work. Read the full paper here. . Link Between Artificial Intelligence and Wellbeing . This is a more macro lens.

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MAY 23, 2013

The book goes into depth about each of these principles and how to incorporate into a training session. I’ve really taken to heart the movement principle. ” Now that’s a design challenge – how to deliver an interactive session that can go in-depth with 80-100 participants in 90 minutes!

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JULY 28, 2017

Her organization helps youth organizations do program evaluation using data. (If This past week, I met up with nonprofit consultant Carrie Rice. We met in a nonprofit conference space of another colleague, Corey Newhouse, executive director of PublicProfit. ”).

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Understand that motivations for giving are moving toward collective survival, demanding more sophisticated coordination among public- and private sectors, and new roles to identify and evaluate partners.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This was fairly early in the Foundation’s exploration of networks and Madeleine came in to discuss her approach to evaluating networks. Fast forward five years, Madeleine has published a new guide on evaluating networks. A Guide to Evaluating Networks – Guest Post By Madeleine Taylor.

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JULY 25, 2017

Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Other areas include: communications, executive transition, evaluation/learning, networking/convening, and professional development. Engage grantees in the evaluation design and implementation. Make creative choices about what to evaluate. Make evaluations a two-way street. Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity. Capacity'

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MAY 12, 2011

I attended a round table discussion with Kathy Reich and Paul Connolly about some of the very preliminary findings from the Packard Foundation’s “ Goldmine &# evaluation that analyzes 1300 capacity building grants to learn what works and how to improve the grantmaking strategy. The last evaluation of this work was a decade ago.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

My colleague, blogger Michele Martin has this well-researched deck with many more examples of methods for doing a process evaluation and reflective practice. All of these work well with small groups and inside of organizations.

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MARCH 18, 2012

While my original intent was to discuss evaluation and transition of specific capacity building grant programs, the conversation smartly expanded to discuss the future trends in capacity building for the sector and us as foundations. After some compelling short talks, people were ready to talk in detail about things they care about.

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MARCH 1, 2016

Evaluation. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Design Thinking As Instructional Technique. Innovation Facilitation Techniques. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. Facilitating With Sticky Notes. Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training. International Training.

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APRIL 26, 2017

The M&R study is an important part of your nonprofit’s digital strategy toolkit for planning and evaluation. It is important to note that social ads accounted for 23% of the total budget. For details about, see the digital ads part of the study. Go download the study now!

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Now many funders have funded measurement via third-party evaluations and as a result think they’ve funded measurement. The irony is that if nonprofits had good measurement systems in would enrich third-party evaluations and external rating approaches!

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MARCH 15, 2012

They were also able to leverage an evaluation and learning community to develop common definitions for policy. Colby, Vice President, Research and Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It involves being an insider and outsider at the same time—how can one be Saul Alinsky and the State Medicaid Director at the same time?

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