EVALUATION STRATEGIES

Are you looking to impress a particular foundation, or federal or state agency with a strongly developed evaluation strategy in your proposal? Check out these resources for helpful tools and information on popular evaluation strategies from your peers.

Grant Center Webinar
Strategies for Grantseeking Success: Planning for Impact

Presenters on this webinar from May 3, 2012 discussed their own personal strategies on how to measure and demonstrate impact. Tune into the archived webinar video for a more detailed information. Additional resources on developing an evaluation plan which were highlighted during the webinar include:

• Charles Gasper, Director of Evaluation, Nine Network of Public Media maintains a blog on evaluation techniques: The Evaluation Evangelist.
• FSG is a nonprofit strategy and evaluation consulting firm that helps foundations, corporations, nonprofits and government agencies discover new ways to solve social problems. FSG's website provides tools and reports on evaluating information and media. 
• The Knight Foundation and FSG released: IMPACT: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Community Information Projects. This guide provides tips on collecting useful information about the effectiveness and impact of community information projects.
• The Center for Evaluation Innovation specializes in areas that are hard to measure, like advocacy, communications and systems change.

Evaluation Handbook
W.K. Kellogg Foundation

This handbook provides a framework for thinking about evaluation and outlines a blueprint for designing and conducting evaluations, either independently or with the support of an external evaluator/consultant.