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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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AZENet Week: Evan Mendelson on Evaluating System Change: Helping Donors Understand What Success Looks Like

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / June 15, 2012 May 25, 2012

I’m Evan Mendelson, Vice President of Donor Relations and Program Services at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (CFSA). I work with both sides of the philanthropic enterprise – the funders and the nonprofits they fund. Donors always ask nonprofits to evaluate how the grant they are providing makes a difference. Too often the nonprofit …

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Ehren Reed and Johanna Morariu on New Research: The State of Evaluation 2010

We are Ehren Reed and Johanna Morariu, Senior Associates of Innovation Network. We work with foundations and nonprofits to evaluate and learn from programs, projects, and advocacy endeavors. For more than fifteen years, Innovation Network has been an intermediary in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors—our mission is to build the evaluation capacity of people and …

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Elizabeth Hutchinson on Working with Local Evaluators in International Settings

1 Comment / Government Evaluation, Independent Consulting, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / August 13, 2010 July 19, 2010

My name is Elizabeth Hutchinson and I am a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with Land O’Lakes International Development. My work focuses on evaluating United States Government-funded agriculture and food system development programs. Most people in the U.S. know of Land O’Lakes for its branded butter, but the division I work for has 30 years experience …

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Michael Quinn Patton on Developmental Evaluation

11 Comments / Evaluation Use / July 26, 2010 September 5, 2010

My name is Michael Quinn Patton and I am an independent evaluation consultant. That means I make my living meeting my clients’ information needs. Over the last few years, I have found increasing demand for innovative evaluation approaches to evaluate innovations. In other words, social innovators and funders of innovative initiatives want and need an …

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