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Integrating Evaluative Capacity Into Organizational Practice: A Guide for Nonprofit & Philanthropic Organizations & Their Stakeh

This publication, Integrating Evaluative Capacity into Organizational Practice, was developed in response to the continuing need expressed by nonprofit trainees to further assess and operationalize evaluative thinking. It extends information first provided in 2006 in a series of short, electronic articles called Evaluative Thinking Bulletins. The guidebook is intended to
answer the following questions:


• What is evaluative thinking, why is it important, and how can it be assessed?
• What is the relationship between evaluation and evaluative thinking?
• How can organizations use evaluative thinking in multiple areas of their work?
• What evaluation skills are critical to evaluative thinking and how can organizations enhance evaluation capacity?
• How can organization board members enhance and learn from evaluation?
• How is evaluative information packaged and distributed?
• How can an organization sustain its evaluative capacity?

 

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Author Anita Baker and Beth Bruner
Publisher The Bruner Foundation
Publication Date June 1, 2012
Publication City Cambridge, MA
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Submitted to Point K August 2, 2012 - 10:06am


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