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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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But is this the right question? 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.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

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I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. Over the years, we noticed that excellence in the sector was evolving, but our questions felt like they were behind the curve. The sector itself continued to change, but it was a challenge to effectively adapt questions to match those changes.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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The Leadership ColLAB conference was an opportunity to bring professionals together around what we believe is a critical question. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress. The World Café is a strategy designed to deeply explore a series of topical questions. Working on culture isn’t a finite activity.

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Use These 11 Metrics To Evaluate Your End-Of-Year Fundraising Campaign

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After you’re done celebrating your wins, it’s time to evaluate the success of your end-of-year fundraising campaign. . Why you should evaluate your end-of-year fundraising campaign . question, you should look at how this campaign compared to the previous year’s campaign. Who should be involved in the evaluation process?

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What Are You Really Asking? A Checklist for Grantmakers

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As a grantmaker, questions are your tools. But are you asking the right questions? We will also give you seven questions to ask yourself about your questions, to make sure they are relevant, clear, respectful, and useful. Why Change Up Your Questions? Does this question reflect the mission of my organization?

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Reflection and Evaluation

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.