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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Evaluation Capacity = ability to do and use evaluations The key to achieving more effective evaluation and overcoming these challenges is evaluation capacity building (ECB). Guide to building evaluation capacity. Make sure your organization is ready for capacity building. Assess the organizational context. are available?

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you’re doing social media and you’re trying to be perfect, get over it – you won’t learn how to improve what you’re doing. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it This book will help. Brilliance by Design by Vicki Halsey.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. Beck talked about her role as the only tech person at a mid-sized science museum as one of capacity-building. Basically, the idea is that most organizations learn in a single loop that connects programs to results.

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