Resources
publication Jan 2020
Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices 2020
What does foundation evaluation look like today? Is it adapting to meet the changing needs of the sector and society?
presentation Feb 2020
Performance Measurement for Emergent and Complex Strategies [Webinar]
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Smart Decision-Makingpublication Mar 2020
Smart Decision-Making
Even when evidence is available in the social sector, it is rarely used. A number of tools and tactics can help us become savvier consumers of information.
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Performance Measurement for Emergent and Complex Strategies [Webinar]presentation Feb 2020
Performance Measurement for Emergent and Complex Strategies [Webinar]
Learn about four types of strategies—niche, integrated, emergent, and ecosystem—and the types of performance measurement and accountability systems best suited to each.
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Upcoming Changes for the Evaluation Roundtablepublication Feb 2020
Upcoming Changes for the Evaluation Roundtable
The Evaluation Roundtable's goal, model, and leadership will be changing in 2020.
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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices 2020publication Jan 2020
Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices 2020
What does foundation evaluation look like today? Is it adapting to meet the changing needs of the sector and society?
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The Realm of Possibility in Evaluationinsight Dec 2019
The Realm of Possibility in Evaluation
It is possible to get more from evaluation, and it starts by challenging our own habits.
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How Leaders Affect Evaluation Capacity Building in Foundationsinsight Oct 2019
How Leaders Affect Evaluation Capacity Building in Foundations
Regardless of intent, foundation leaders can substantially harm or strengthen evaluation capacity building in their organizations. We can add value if we know how and why.
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Funders are from Mars, Consultants are from Venusinsight Oct 2019
Funders are from Mars, Consultants are from Venus
If we want evaluation to add real value to social change efforts, both funders and evaluation consultants have to re-examine their roles and how they relate.
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Ties That Bind: A Values-Driven Approach to Evolving Evaluative Practiceinsight Oct 2019
Ties That Bind: A Values-Driven Approach to Evolving Evaluative Practice
A growing number of new initiatives are seeking to transform philanthropic evaluation in ways that can better support them and the social change they are after. We represent three of these efforts.
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Equitable Evaluation Framework Applies to all Evaluationinsight Oct 2019
Equitable Evaluation Framework Applies to all Evaluation
It can be hard to understand how equitable evaluation applies to any evaluation, even for strategies that do not explicitly focus on advancing equity. Julia Coffman writes about her “aha” moment, when she realized that equitable evaluation should be at the center of all of her work.
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What Will it Take for Philanthropy to Learn?insight Oct 2019
What Will it Take for Philanthropy to Learn?
Learning leaders from fourteen foundations participated in a year-long "Lab for Learning" to experiment with and test ideas for supporting learning in foundations. Several “ground truths” guided this work.
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How to Ask Powerful Questions [Webinar]presentation Jul 2019
How to Ask Powerful Questions [Webinar]
The kinds of questions we often pose — Did the intervention work? What are we learning about a particular issue? — may lead to information that is a useful input into learning, but they often don’t help us determine what to do next. This webinar shows us how to ask questions that, if answered, will make a difference in how we do our work.
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Are you really ready for developmental evaluation? You may have to get out of your own way.insight Jul 2019
Are you really ready for developmental evaluation? You may have to get out of your own way.
Developmental evaluation can create anxieties and disappointments for evaluation commissioners and evaluators who apply conventional evaluation routines to an evaluation endeavor that is fundamentally different.
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