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Community Development Evaluation Storymap This interactive resource offers concise explanations and real-world applications of capacity assessment, performance measurement, and outcome evaluation approaches, along with information about recommended tools and resources for each process. Author: NeighborWorks® America Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jun 28, 2006 Be the first to review this resource! Download (6.01 MB) -
Community Tool Box The Community Toolbox offers a wide range of free information and tools to support you in your work:
- Browse 46 Chapters through which you can obtain more than 300 different sections providing practical, step-by-step guidance in community-building skills.
- Access succinct guidance on 16 core competencies for community work, including how to conduct a community assessment, develop a strategic plan, write a grant, or evaluate your efforts.
Author: University of Kansas, Community Health and Development Workgroup Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 2015 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Complete Toolkit for Boards Carter McNamara's information for nonprofit Boards, taken from his Free Management Library. It includes extensive operations and governance topics, such as:
- Recruitment,
- Orientation,
- Staffing,
- Roles and responsibilities,
- Board-staff relations,
- Planning,
- HR management,
- Finance and taxes,
- Fundraising,
- Marketing, and
- Evaluation.
Author: McNamara, Carter (ed.) Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 18, 2008 Point K Pick
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Continuous Progress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation Continuous Progress is an online collection of planning and evaluation tools and services for advocates and funders. Continuous Progress "Strategic Services" is a consulting practice that provides planning, evaluation, and communications expertise. Their featured project, the "Advocacy Progress Planner," is an online tool based on the Advocacy & Policy Change Composite Logic Model (q.v.) The website also offers guides for domestic (U.S.) and global advocacy efforts. Author: Global Interdependence Initiative Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 2006
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Data and Information Visualization Throughout the Life Cycle for Participatory Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity Building This is a handout containing a list of great resources to help improve your data visualization skills. The list provides links to websites that will help you design the right color scheme (such as Design Seeds), websites that provides basic information about principles of design, and great examples of how evaluators, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data viz to help us understand data better.
Author: Johanna Morariu and Veena Pankaj Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 2013 Be the first to review this resource! Download (392.28 KB) -
Enhancing Program Performance with Logic Models An online course from the University of Wisconsin, Extension on developing and applying logic models. Designed for the beginner, this user-friendly course includes an audio track, worksheets, resources, and examples. Author: University of Wisconsin - Extension Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 2002 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Evaluating Community Change: A Framework for Grantmakers The publication offers a framework for thinking about how to measure progress and results in place-based andcommunity change initiatives.Author: Grantmakers for Effective Organization (GEO) Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 2014 Be the first to review this resource! Download (2.9 MB) -
Evaluation Logic Model A logic model overview with links to workbooks, PowerPoint presentations, and other resources. Author: University of Wisconsin - Extension Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 18, 2008
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Evaluation Research The evaluation research section of Cornell University’s "Research Methods Knowledge Base", a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses many topics in social research method Author: Trochim, William M.K. Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Oct 20, 2006 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
First Steps in Monitering and Evaluation Page features a variety of documents on monitoring and evaluation, primarily targeting charitable organizations. Author: Charities Evaluations Services Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jun 14, 2010
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Free Resources for Program Evaluation and Social Research Methods This page lists FREE resources for program evaluation and social research methods. The focus is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. Most of these links are to resources that can be read over the web. A few, like the GAO books, are for books that can be sent away for, for free (if you live in the US), as well as read over the web. Author: Gene Shackman Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Nov 22, 2007 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Fundraising 123 Network for Good launched Fundraising123.org in December, 2007. This free collection of online resources describes itself as "A Fundraising Guide for the Overwhelmed, Overworked Nonprofit." Author: Network for Good Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Dec 1, 2007 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
General Guidelines for Conducting Interviews Carter McNamara's guidelines for conducting interviews, part of his Free Management Library and drawn from his book Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development. Author: McNamara, Carter Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: May 1, 2006 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
GrantStation.com Online since 1999, GrantStation.com provides information and mentorship about the grantseeking process. Though most of their online resources are available only to paid subscribers, the "Tracks to Success" series offers free articles on a variety of fundraising and nonprofit management topics, including capital campaigns, endownment building, youth engagement, creating a development plan, and more. THey have also recently expanded, with an international edition of their newsletter, the GrantStation Insider. Author: GrantStation.com, Inc. Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 1999 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
grassrootsfundraising.org The Grassroots Fundraising website helps nonprofits diversify their fundraising strategies. The site offers some free resources including articles on fundraising basics, an e-newsletter, and an advice column facilitated by the site's emeritus publisher, Kim Klein. (The site's flagship publication, Grassroots Fundraising Journal, is a subscription-based magazine, with back issues and articles available for a small fee.) Author: Roth, Stephanie (ed.) Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 18, 2008 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Guide to Strategic Planning The strategic planning section of Carter McNamara's Free Management Library covers the following topics:
- Recommended Approach
- Benefits;
- When Should Strategic Planning Be Done?
- Overviews
- Preparation for Strategic Planning
- Strategic Analysis
- Setting Strategic Direction
- Action Planning
- Writing and Communicating the Plan; and
- Monitoring, Evaluating and Deviating from the Plan.
Author: McNamara, Carter (ed.) Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 18, 2008 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
IdeaEncore.com Knowledge sharing, made simple. Since you're reading this, you are obviously aware of Point K's free online resources. IdeaEncore takes a similar knowledge sharing concept and runs with it. Its goal is "nothing short of worldwide, sector-wide sharing of all kinds and types of nonprofit information, knowledge, activities and ideas."
Author: IdeaEncore Network Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jul 19, 2010 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Idealware.org The Idealware website is a treasure trove of time-saving reviews, tips, and research. Idealware publishes unbiased reviews of software for nonprofits. Experts from all over the nonprofit technology community contribute the benefit of their experience through articles and blog posts. If you're trying to compare software packages, this is an excellent place to start--they might have already done the research for you.
Author: Quinn, Laura S. et al. Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Apr 4, 2008 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Introduction to Evaluation The Introduction to Evaluation Research presents an overview of what evaluation is and how it differs from social research generally. We also introduce several evaluation models to give you some perspective on the evaluation endeavor. Evaluation should not be considered in a vacuum. Here, we consider evaluation as embedded within a larger Planning-Evaluation Cycle.
Author: William M.K. Trochim Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Oct 20, 2006
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Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center - Program Evaluation Briefing Series This Program Evaluation Briefing Series includes several documents:
Author: Justice Research and Statistics Association Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Dec 31, 2004 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Key Questions for Developing Your Objectives Advocacy Institute offers four questions that advocates or organizations should ask themselves before developing strategic objectives:
- Who are we?
- What is the problem?
- What is our vision of change?
- What objectives--or piece of our vision--are we focusing on?
Author: Advocacy Institute Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 2004 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Keystone's Feedback App This free and easy web-based tool from Keystone Accountability is a simple way of getting anonymous feedback from your partners on what they really think about your work. The application starts by asking you to choose from a standard list of questions, such as "How strongly would you recommend [your organization] to a colleague or friend?" Answers are on a scale of 1 to 10 or open-ended. You can also add questions. Next, you provide a list of respondents to receive the short survey. Keystone keeps data anonymous and confidential. Author: Keystone Accountability Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Oct 31, 2009 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Learn Foundation Law The legal staff at the Packard Foundation, Gates Foundation, Hewlett Foundation and Moore Foundation developed this free, first-of-its-kind resource, which covers the basic legal rules around what staff are allowed to fund and engage in at a private foundation. It takes less than an hour to complete and features “Maya,” a new program officer that leads participants through the course. Participants can also return to the training at any time for a refresher and click on the individual modules to refer back to specific topics.
Author: Legal staff at the Packard Foundation, Gates Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and Moore Foundation Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 2010 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Learning to Love Your Logic Model In this recorded webinar, Tom Chapel, Chief Evaluation Officer of the CDC, provides an overview of the purpose of logic models, how to use them, and common logic model components.
Summary from the CDC website:
It’s fun to make fun of logic models. While some of the criticism is justified, much is directed at a caricature of logic models that no model fan would recognize. In this webinar we’ll remind you:
Author: Thomas J. Chapel, Chief Evaluation Officer, CDC Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 2017 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
LearnPhilanthropy LearnPhilanthropy's Knowledge Library is a resource for people who are new to grantmaking or those seeking new ideas and tools to improve their grantmaking practice. Here you will find essential learning and new research on a range of common issues and key challenges in philanthropy. Working with leading organizations across the field, LearnPhilanthropy regularly updates this centralized library with reports, tools, and other resources. Author: LearnPhilanthropy Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Sep 23, 2014 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Web Link