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NPF Week: Michael Arnold and Miranda Yates on Understanding Propensity Score Matching as an Alternative to RCT

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / October 14, 2016 October 18, 2016

We are Michael Arnold, Senior Associate with Harder+Company Community Research where I design and implement social impact evaluations and Miranda Yates, Assistant Executive Director for Strategy, Evaluation, and Learning with Good Shepherd Services (GSS). This October at AEA 2016, we look forward to sharing some lessons from using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) in community program evaluations …

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NPF Week: Nicky Grist on a Funder’s Role in Program and Evaluation Design

2 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / October 13, 2016 October 14, 2016

Hello, I’m Nicky Grist of the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund). The CFE Fund’s inaugural project, in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, was to launch Financial Empowerment Centers (FECs) in Denver, CO; Lansing, MI; Nashville, TN; Philadelphia, PA; and San Antonio, TX. The FEC program design centers on: Providing free, unlimited, individualized, confidential financial …

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NPF Week: Rachel Leventon and Susan Wolfe on Teaching Nonprofits to Design Evaluable Programs

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / October 12, 2016 October 14, 2016

We are Rachel Leventon and Susan Wolfe, consultants at CNM Connect where we provide evaluation and capacity-building services and training to non-profit organizations in North Texas. CNM Connect offers a Non-Profit Management Certificate. For this series, we developed and teach the seven-hour Program Planning and Evaluation Workshop. We combine three recognizable approaches to expose participants …

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NPF Week: Sophia Guevara on Board Collaboration at a Distance

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / October 11, 2016 October 11, 2016

My name is Sophia Guevara and I am the Special Libraries Association Information Technology Division (SLA IT) Chair and American Evaluation Association Social Network Analysis Topical Interest Group Co-Chair. At SLA IT, I currently lead the Executive and Advisory boards. In an effort to bring the members of these boards together, I asked that the …

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NPF Week: Dana Powell Russell on Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Engaging Funders Around the Data Interpretation Table

3 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / October 10, 2016 October 10, 2016

Hello! I’m Dana Powell Russell, Ed.D., a planning and evaluation consultant supporting nonprofits in the arts, museum, and K-12 sectors. I’m here to promote the value of engaging funders together with other stakeholders in making meaning of program evaluation results. When interpreting data, I facilitate gatherings I call “Interpretation Workshops.” The purpose is to: Create …

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NPF Week: Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, Veena Pankaj, and Deborah Grodzicki on Fresh Findings about Nonprofit Evaluation Practice and Capacity

1 Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Uncategorized / October 9, 2016 October 9, 2016

We are Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, Veena Pankaj, and Deborah Grodzicki of Innovation Network, a consulting firm that specializes in helping nonprofit and philanthropic organizations collect data, learn, and make informed decisions. In 2010 we founded the State of Evaluation Project, an ongoing research effort to document the status and changes of evaluation capacity and …

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Andrew Taylor and Ben Liadsky on Treating the Cause Rather than the Symptoms: Building an Evaluation Agenda for the Nonprofit Sector

2 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / February 18, 2016 February 16, 2016

Hello, we are Andrew Taylor, from Taylor Newberry Consulting, and Ben Liadsky, from the Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN). ONN is a provincial network that works to promote a healthy nonprofit sector by analyzing and interpreting trends in the sector, provincial legislation and policy. Today, we want to share with you our work to develop a …

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Sonia Worcel and Kim Leonard on Learning Communities & Evaluation: How evaluators rely on, make use of, and assess learning communities as part of funding initiatives

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / December 3, 2015 November 29, 2015

We are Sonia Worcel, VP for Strategy and Research, and Kim Leonard, Senior Evaluation Officer, from The Oregon Community Foundation. Our post shares highlights from the roundtable session at Evaluation 2015 during which we discussed the ways we are working within and assessing the success of several OCF learning communities. The Research team at The …

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NPF TIG Week: Kathryn Hill on Evaluation Management in Nonprofit Settings

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 18, 2015 September 12, 2015

I’m Kathryn Hill, NPFTIG business co-chair with Laura Beals. To close our sponsored week for AEA365, I am focusing on internal evaluation management techniques. As a grants administrator in a nonprofit organization, I spend most of my time preparing progress and final reports on outcomes for programs with funding from foundations. This requires careful evaluation …

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NPF TIG Week: Jindra Cekan on Evaluation and Sustainability

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 17, 2015 September 12, 2015

I am Jindra Cekan, PhD of Valuing Voices at Cekan Consulting, challenging us to reach for sustainability. What is the overlap of sustainability and evaluation? OECD’s DAC Principles for Evaluating Development Assistance has five parameters: relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability. “Sustainability is concerned with measuring whether the benefits of an activity are likely to …

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