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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). Answer questions like: Did participants’ attitudes, knowledge and skills change? The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. Implement ECB strategies.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

I talked about using the design question: "How can visitors make this project better?" I asked them to think about how they could ask questions or share ideas in ways that would be as useful as possible to everyone in the room. The conversation worked and the questions kept coming because the answers were thoughtful and open.

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