Evaluation
This is not a how-to paper on organizing a neighborhood, nor is it a how-to paper on managing a neighborhood…
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Where all three themes flow together … I’ll write on how we can know when societal institutions, drawing on the…
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Those of us with research training already know how to do studies that embrace principles of science. We could begin…
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“The world isn’t going to be saved overnight, or in a year, or with the one just-right program or policy. It’s people that will save the world, working in a smart accumulation of efforts that together make progress against specific substantial goals.” Steven E. Mayer
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Both philanthropic effectiveness and nonprofit management need the field of evaluation to make more progress in measuring the ways systems…
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Increasing community capacity should be on the agenda of every community foundation. Building Community Capacity: the Potential of Community Foundations…
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Proof of program effectiveness beyond a reasonable doubt? Let a jury decide. Is traditional social science the only way to…
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It doesn’t really matter whether you can quantify your results. What matters is that you rigorously assemble evidence – quantitative or…
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