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Evaluation Activities in Organizations
- Much of the information in this topic is adapted from the book Field Guide to Nonprofit Program Design, Marketing and Evaluation .
- Guidelines for evaluating the process and results of organizational change are included in the books Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development and Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development with Nonprofits .
Evaluation is carefully collecting information about something in order to make necessary decisions about it. There are a large number and wide variety of evaluations. Evaluation is closely related to performance management (whether about organizations, groups, processes or individuals), which includes identifying measures to assess progress toward achieving results.
General Guidelines About Doing All Forms
of Evaluation
Overviews of Major Types of Evaluations
Also see
General Resources
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Also See the Library's Blogs Related to Evaluations
In addition to the articles on this current page, see the following blogs which have posts related to this Evaluations. Scan down the blog's page to see various posts. Also see the section "Recent Blog Posts" in the sidebar of the blog or click on "next" near the bottom of a post in the blog.
Library's Business
Planning Blog
Library's Building
a Business Blog
Library's Strategic
Planning Blog
General Guidelines About Doing All Forms of Evaluation
How
to Design Successful Evaluation and Assessment Plans
Internal
Eval Week: Pamela Bishop on Working as a New Internal Evaluator
Internal
Evaluation Week: Debbie Cohen on Working with External Evaluators
Internal
Eval Week: Anthony Kim on Balancing Dual Roles as an Internal Evaluator
Stanley
Capela and Ariana Brooks on Planting a Seed to Overcome Resistance to Evaluation
Improving evaluation questions and answers: Getting
actionable answers for real-world decision makers (takes long
time to download)
Jack Mills on
Setting Up Evaluation Contracts
Amy Germuth
on Reporting Findings
Our Ineffectiveness at Measuring Effectiveness
How
to Perform Evaluation Reports
Donald L Kirkpatrick's training evaluation model
- the four levels of learning evaluation
Overviews of Major Types of Evaluations
Advertising
Efforts
Boards
of Directors (self-evaluation)
Chief
Executive (evaluation by the Board of Directors)
Community
Assessments
Customer
Satisfaction (measuring)
Employee
Performance
Financial
Practices in Nonprofits
Fundraising
Practices in Nonprofits
Group
Performance
Human
Resource Management Practices in Nonprofits
Legal
Activities in Nonprofits
Marketing
(scan down to Evaluating Your Marketing Efforts)
Organizational
Communications
Organizational
Performance
Program
Evaluation (including outcomes-based evaluations)
Planning
Practices in Nonprofits
Sales
Performance
Self-Assessments
Training
and Development
General Resources
American Evaluation Association Public Library
American Evaluation
Association Discussion List
Innovation Network
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Recommended Books - Evaluation
Evaluation (General)
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Program Evaluation
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just click on the image of the book. Also, a convenient search window is included below the rows of boxes.
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Field Guide to Nonprofit Program Design, Marketing and Evaluation
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. There are few books, if any, that explain how to carefully plan, organize, develop and evaluate a nonprofit program. Also, too many books completely separate the highly integrated activities of planning, marketing and evaluating programs. This book integrates all three into a comprehensive, straightforward approach that anyone can follow in order to provide high-quality programs with strong appeal to funders. Includes many online forms that can be downloaded. Many materials in this Library topic are adapted from this book.
