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Community Resource Institute Tutorials A collection of the following community empowerment tutorials:1. Using Data to Support Grant Applications and Other Funding Opportunities
2. Monitoring Trends and Identifying Emerging Problems
3. Using Data to Disseminate Information to Engage Community and Policymakers
4. Using Data to Evaluate Progress in Meeting Goals
5. Using Data to Establish Priorities and Plan ProgramsAuthor: Community Resource Institute Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Jan 1, 2010 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Community-Based Project Evaluation Guide This 76-page .pdf evaluation guide was originally created in 1997. It was updated in 2000. The guide is intended to help practitioners evaluate community-based programs with a focus on children, youth, and families. The guide explores the links between theory and research, goals and objectives, measures, variables, and program implementation. It includes examples of outcomes for children and youth issue areas, samples, and worksheets. Author: Callor, Suzanne et al. Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Dec 14, 2000 Be the first to review this resource! Download (235.68 KB) -
Continuous Progress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation Continuous Progress is an online collection of planning and evaluation tools and services for advocates and funders. Continuous Progress "Strategic Services" is a consulting practice that provides planning, evaluation, and communications expertise. Their featured project, the "Advocacy Progress Planner," is an online tool based on the Advocacy & Policy Change Composite Logic Model (q.v.) The website also offers guides for domestic (U.S.) and global advocacy efforts. Author: Global Interdependence Initiative Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 2006
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Create a "Culture of Evaluation" In the June 20, 2007 issue the e-newsletter "Nonprofit Tools You Can Use" from the Fieldstone Alliance, Vince Hyman introduces an excerpt from the book Information Gold Mine: Innovative Uses of Evaluation by Paul Mattessich, et al. This excerpt discusses how a "culture of evaluation" is an important factor in increasing the likelihood an organization will be willing to change based on the results of an evaluation. The authors also offer some insights and advice on how organizations can promote this type of culture. Author: Vince Hyman (Field Stone Alliance); Paul Mattessich, et al. Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Jun 20, 2007 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Creative Ways to Solicit Youth Input: A Hands-On Guide for Youth Practitioners To understand how our programs are doing, improve the quality of those programs and report to funders and other stakeholders, we collect information from a variety of sources: staff, parents, and the youth themselves. This manual provides ideas for other, creative ways to get input from youth.
Part One outlines a process you can use to plan your evaluation questions. Next, we present some key ideas to consider when implementing your evaluation, analyzing the results and reporting them.
Author: Public Profit Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: May 1, 2012
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CT Health Foundation - Findings from a 10-Year Evaluation of a Health Leadership Fellows Program In late 2014 the Connecticut Health Foundation (CT Health) commissioned an in-depth evaluation of its Health Leadership Fellows Program (HLFP). This signature program had been running for a decade and it was time to determine its impact and effectiveness.As a learning organization, CT Health believed it was important to undergo this important process.Author: Johanna Morariu & Katherine Haugh Type: Presentation Slides Date: Jul 1, 2015 Be the first to review this resource! Download (700.01 KB) -
Dabbling in the Data: A Hands-On Guide to Participatory Data Analysis Many quality improvement trainings either ignore data interpretations or offer limited guidance about how to dig into the data. This means that whoever speaks up first sets the agenda for the group—hardly a rigorous or fruitful process. Educators and children and youth professionals are increasingly interested in utilizing data to support continuous quality improvement, but few resources are available to help practitioners know what to do.Author: Public Profit Type: Research & Reports Date: Jan 1, 2014 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.3 MB) -
Data and Information Visualization Throughout the Evaluation Life Cycle for Participatory Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity Innovation Network shared approaches and examples of how to incorporate innovative data and information visualization techniques throughout each stage of the evaluation life cycle to support participatory evaluation and build evaluation capacity. In the planning and design phase mind mapping can be used to promote brainstorming and idea generation. In the data collection stage, evaluators can use creative visuals to improve stakeholder understanding of and participation in data collection, and evaluators can adhere to good design principles to create effective data collection instruments. Author: Johanna Morariu, Myia Welsh, Veena Pankaj, Melissa March Type: Presentation Slides Date: Nov 3, 2011 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Data Collection Tips: Build On What’s Out There Innovation Network's own tipsheet, "Build on What's Out There" discusses how to use existing tools to create your own data collection instruments, followed by a list of databases of instruments that are available on the Web. Author: Innovation Network, Inc. Type: Tipsheets & Paper Tools Date: May 15, 2005 Be the first to review this resource! Download (163.99 KB) -
Data Collection Tips: Survey Development Innovation Network's tips to avoid some common issues that nonprofits face when constructing a survey. Author: Innovation Network, INc. Type: Tipsheets & Paper Tools Date: May 15, 2005 Be the first to review this resource! Download (198.88 KB) -
Data Placemats: A DataViz Technique to Improve Stakeholder Understanding of Evaluation Results [Slides] At the American Evaluation Assocaition 2012 Annual Conference, Veena Pankaj describes various ways to improve stakeholder engagement, as well as ways to increase stakeholder understanding of evaluation results. Author: Veena Pankaj Type: Presentation Slides Date: Oct 25, 2012 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Data Visualization Approaches for Program Evaluation (and Beyond) Simone Parrish writes, "When you hear the phrase “program evaluation findings,” are you bored already? Most people—even within the evaluation field—perceive evaluation as dry. The major output of an evaluation is often a weighty report that gets read once (if at all) before it begins its long-term dust-collecting destiny.
Author: Simone Parrish Type: Opinion (blog, editorial) Date: Apr 29, 2014 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Dataviz! Or, How to Win at Communication and Influence People (Resources Handout) Are you intrigued by data and information visualization—dataviz—and how it could improve your communication strategy? Are you interested in the range of dataviz options, but unsure which is right for you? Or are you maybe even drowning in data and looking for someone to throw you a life-saving suggestion for tools to transform your data into a message?
Author: Johanna Morariu Type: Tipsheets & Paper Tools Date: May 17, 2013 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Download (510.3 KB) -
Designing a Results Framework for Achieving Results: A How-To Guide A results framework serves as a key tool in the development landscape, enabling practitioners to discuss and establish strategic development objectives and then link interventions to intermediate outcomes and results that directly relate to those objectives. This publication provides how-to guidance for developing results frameworks by discussing the following: Author: Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Sep 1, 2012 Be the first to review this resource! Download (834.16 KB) -
Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Process for Capacity Building and Empowerment Can participation and empowerment in M&E be a reality in large scale projects and programmes? How can qualitative change be assessed in a participatory and empowering way which is also reliable and credible? This paper uses INTRAC's Central Asia programme (building NGO capacity in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) as a case study. Author: International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) Type: Research & Reports Date: Nov 6, 2002 Be the first to review this resource! Download (102.5 KB) -
Developmental Evaluation This presentation by Ricardo Wilson-Grau at the Michigan Association for Evaluation's annual conference is based on the concept of Developmental Evaluation (DE) elaborated by Michael Quinn Patton over the past 20 years and now crystallised in a book – Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use. The presentation presents an overview of DE, explains the basic theory behind DE, when can DE be used in evaluation, as well as the differences between DE and traditional evaluation. Author: Ricardo Wilson-Grau Type: Presentation Slides Date: May 3, 2000 Be the first to review this resource! Download (5.05 MB) -
Do-It-Yourself Logic Models: Examples, Templates, and Checklists [Handout] Logic models are nonprofit road maps: they help you diagram where you are now and where you hope to be in the future. They are used for program planning, program management, fundraising, communications, consensus-building, and evaluation planning.
Author: Johanna Morariu and Ann Emery, Innovation Network Type: Templates & Samples Date: Feb 25, 2014 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Download (105.1 KB) -
Drawings as a Method of Program Evaluation and Communication with School-Age Children This article discusses using drawings as a means for obtaining children's perceptions in the evaluation process. Author: Evans, William and Reilly, Jackie Type: Research & Reports Date: Oct 16, 2008 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Enhancing Program Performance with Logic Models An online course from the University of Wisconsin, Extension on developing and applying logic models. Designed for the beginner, this user-friendly course includes an audio track, worksheets, resources, and examples. Author: University of Wisconsin - Extension Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 2002 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
eNonprofits Benchmark Study: Measuring Email Messaging, Online Fundraising, and Internet Advocacy Metrics This report provides a snapshot of key metrics and benchmarks for nonprofit e-mail communications, online fundraising, and online advocacy. According to the authors, "Organizations will be able to use this study to begin to understand how to look at and analyze their own online communications data. It will provide context and comparisons for organizations doing their own ongoing reporting."
Author: M & R Strategic Services and the Advocacy Institute Type: Research & Reports Date: Mar 10, 2012 Be the first to review this resource! Download (2.25 MB) -
Essentials of Survey Research and Analysis This workbook for community researchers includes chapters on survey basics, types of data, questionnaire formats, constructing questions and answers, assessing reliability, identifying research problems and defining solutions, sampling, coding and data organization, formatting and testing, storing data, data entry and quality control, analysis, and reporting. Author: Polland, Ronald J. Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Jan 1, 2005 Be the first to review this resource! Download (260.35 KB) -
Evaluability Assessment to Improve Public Health Policies, Programs, and Practices This article describes how evaluability assessment has benefited public health and could do so in future. We describe the rationale, history, and evolution of evaluability assessment. We outline the steps in the method and distinguish it from related concepts. We then illustrate how evaluability assessment can benefit public health in five ways:
Author: Laura C. Leviton, Laura Kettel Khan, Debra Rog, Nicola Dawkins, and David Cotton Type: Research & Reports Date: Jul 1, 2010 Be the first to review this resource! Download (380.53 KB) -
Evaluating Advocacy: A Model for Public Policy Initiatives This presentation, drawing on work done with the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform ("CCIR"), was given by Innovation Network staff at the 2006 American Evaluation Association Conference. The presentation discusses advocacy evaluation in general, some inherent challenges that apply more strongly to advocacy evaluation than to evaluation of traditional service programs, and some practical planning and evaluation structures developed as a result of the work with CCIR. Author: Innovation Network, Inc. Type: Presentation Slides Date: Nov 1, 2006 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.42 MB) -
Evaluating Community Change: A Framework for Grantmakers The publication offers a framework for thinking about how to measure progress and results in place-based andcommunity change initiatives.Author: Grantmakers for Effective Organization (GEO) Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 2014 Be the first to review this resource! Download (2.9 MB) -
Evaluating Complexity: Propositions for Improving Practice Evaluating Complexity: Propositions for Improving Practice asks civil society organizations to challenge the assumptions behind traditional evaluation models as they take steps toward evaluating complex initiatives and initiatives in complex environments.
Author: FSG Type: Research & Reports Date: Nov 17, 2014 Be the first to review this resource! Download (2.85 MB)