Evaluation
At the risk of sounding pedantic, not all pounds of food are equal. There’s a problem with using a single…
This is not a how-to paper on organizing a neighborhood, nor is it a how-to paper on managing a neighborhood…
Where all three themes flow together … I’ll write on how we can know when societal institutions, drawing on the…
Those of us with research training already know how to do studies that embrace principles of science. We could begin…
“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
Both philanthropic effectiveness and nonprofit management need the field of evaluation to make more progress in measuring the ways systems…
Increasing the abilities of its region’s nonprofits should be on the agenda of every community foundation. Building Community Capacity: the…
Proof of program effectiveness beyond a reasonable doubt? Let a jury decide. Is traditional social science the only way to…
It doesn’t really matter whether you can quantify your results. What matters is that you rigorously assemble evidence – quantitative or…