Strategies for Grantseeking Success: Planning for Impact
Grant Center Webinar
Thursday, May 3, 2012
2:00 pm. - 3:00 p.m. EDT
Foundations increasingly want to know how their grants have an impact in the community. It is vital for stations that are seeking grants to be able to answer the question: "So what?" This webinar looked at strategies and tools for planning, from the outset of a project initiative, to how to measure and demonstrate impact. How can stations identify measurable outcomes? What tools are available (and affordable) for assessing the impact of stations' work? Why is it so important to communicate your outcomes effectively? And how does all of this affect the way stations think about and conduct their work?
Ellen Martin, Senior Consultant at FSG, Beth Spezia, Outreach Field Representative at WSIU Public Broadcasting, and Amie Miller, Grants and Foundation Advisor at DEI and the Grant Center, presented.
This is the second webinar in the Grant Center's series: Strategies for Grantseeking Success. The first webinar, Defining the Work, is archived and available for viewing on our website.
Resources discussed during the webinar:
- Read Charles Gasper's blog, The Evaluation Evangelist.
- Download the joint Knight Foundation and FSG resource IMPACT: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Community Information Projects for a guide on collecting useful information about the effectiveness and impact of a community project.
- The Center for Evaluation Innovation specializes in areas that are hard to measure, like advocacy, communications and systems change.
- Check out FSG's website for tools and reports on evaluating information and media. FSG is a nonprofit strategy and evaluation consulting firm that helps foundations, corporations, nonprofits and government agencies discover new ways to solve social problems.
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