Evaluation is about more than just numbers. It’s about gathering, understanding and applying information to inform learning, improvement, and critical decision-making.
These resources can help your nonprofit build its evaluation capacity.
NSP Resources
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Evaluation Capacity Grants enable your organization to continue building evaluation capacity.
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Building Evaluation Capacity Program enables a team from your organization to learn to design and conduct program evaluations.
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CTData - Data Strategic Planning helps nonprofits improve their internal data structures and processes so they can bettter understand the resultts of their work using data.
Other Resources
- Bruner Foundation Effectiveness Initiative provides free resources for nonprofit evaluators.
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W.K. Kellogg Foundation Logic Model Development Guide helps you understand how to develop and use logic models to plan evaluation.
Overarching Evaluation Guides -
W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Step-by-Step Guide to Evaluation is a non-technical guide with practical evaluation instructions.
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The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation Data Playbook provides the building blocks organizations need to put data to work for their missions.
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Innovation Network Logic Model Workbook is a do-it-yourself guide to the concepts and use of the logic model. It describes the steps necessary for you to create logic models for your own programs.
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Principles of Emergent Learning
Equity in Evaluation -
Chicago Beyond offers this thoughtful tool for conducting evaluation through an equity lens.
- The Hartford Foundation works in alignment with the Equitable Evaluation Framework™ - a guide that helps us explore, question, learn, and unlearn in ways that help inform actions and decisions in a more equitable way.
- Using a Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation Approach to Guide Research and Evaluation (Mathematica and Tanisha Tate Woodson, PhD)
Finding Evaluators -
The American Evaluation Association Find an Evaluator provides a find-an-evaluator function on their website that is searchable by location and area of expertise.
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New England Nonprofit Consultant Directory, a consultant directory that assists nonprofits in their search for consultants for their projects – including evaluation.
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The ACE Evaluation Network brings together racially and ethnically diverse Evaluators who have been historically and/or are presently underrepresented or marginalized in the U.S. who are committed to Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation (CREE).
