Festen / Philbin Level Best

How Small and Grassroots Nonprofits Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-7879-8755-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Kim Klein's Chardon Press

Level Best offers guidance that demystifies evaluation and takes into account the unique challenges and realities of grassroots nonprofit organizations. It provides a new framework for thinking about evaluation and tools for measuring and sharing results in ways that are practical, efficient, and meaningful.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Festen, Marcia

Philbin, Marianne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Klein, Kim

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figure, Tables, Worksheets, Exhibits, Agendas.
Introduction.
How to Use This Book.
Instruction with Samples and Examples.
1 Understanding Evaluation.
Evaluation as Power Instead of Pain.
What Evaluation Is and What It Is Not.
2 A Simple Evaluation Framework.
The Basic Evaluation Framework.
Key Concepts:What to Evaluate and How to Get Started.
The Rolling Evaluation Method.
3 Planning Your Evaluation.
A Quick Review of Basic Organizational Readiness.
Definition of an Effective Organization.
What You Plan Affects What You Learn.
Step by Step: Planning Your Evaluation.
Understanding Funders'Needs and Fitting Them into YourEvaluation Plan.
Why Setting Goals Makes Evaluation Easier.
How You Can Prepare.
4 Asking the Right Questions.
Clear Program Goals Guide Evaluation Questions and Choices.
What to Evaluate:What You Do Versus What Your ConstituentsDo.
If or Then:Which to Evaluate?
The Relationship Between Evaluating What You Do (Process) andWhat They Do (Outcome).
Determine the Right Questions.
Ask What You Really Want to Know.
How Advocacy Organizations Can Approach Evaluation.
How to Be Answerable When Advocacy and Organizing Are YourAgenda.
Ideas for Measuring Organizing Efforts.
5 Tracking Information.
Options for Tracking Information.
The Right Goal Statement Helps Determine the Right Things toTrack.
6 Learning From and Using the Information.
Making Use of Your Information.
Organizing Your Information.
Drawing Conclusions.
Using What You Learn.
Sharing Your Evaluation Results with the Outside World.
Feeding Results into the Cycle of Planning.
Tying Evaluation into Planning.
Deciding Where to Begin.
Incorporating Evaluation into Your Strategic PlanningProcess.
Resources.
A Commonly Used Terms and Their Definitions.
B Types of Evaluation.
C Sample Completed Evaluation Planning Worksheet.
D Sample Evaluation Report Outline.
E Program Evaluation Standards.
Acknowledgments.
About the Authors.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Marcia Festen of Marcia K. Festen Associates in Chicago is aconsultant to nonprofits and foundations.In addition to conductingevaluations, she develops policy and grantmaking strategies,programs, and initiatives. She was a senior program officer at theJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and hasover twentyyears of experience in the field.
Marianne Philbin is a writer, trainer, and consultantspecializing in nonprofit organizational development.She has workedfor a wide range of foundations and nonprofit organizations, andhas an extensive background in grantmaking, fundraising, andnonprofit management. She is an instructor for the Donors Forum ofChicago and a lecturer at Northwestern University's School ofContinuing Studies.