Posted On: Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
The next time your organization is gathering feedback from clients about the programs and services you deliver, consider offering incentives for their participation. Incentives can make a huge difference for survey response rates, overall evaluation buy-in, and the development of reciprocal relationships. Alison Baxter describes how incentives have made a difference in her research with youth… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, December 13th, 2012
Real-time evaluation (RTE) is one of the evaluation field’s latest responses to evaluation reports that come too late to be actionable or relevant. Nonprofits and foundations operate in complex ecologies and program implementation is not straightforward. As a result, they are looking to evaluation as a way to improve their programs in real time rather than… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, December 6th, 2012
Dec. 17/2013 @1:00-2:00pm EST/10:00-11:00am PST Please join the CIHR Social Research Centre in HIV Prevention (SRC) and the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD) on December 17, 2012 from 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST for a live webcast featuring the results from the 2011 Canadian attitudinal survey results on HIV and AIDS. Understanding… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, December 3rd, 2012
What’s in the news about evaluation? Last week the Harvard Business Review shared an article about the distinction between outputs and outcomes in the business world. The author of the article, Deborah Mills-Scofield, argues that, “business in the 21st century needs more focus on outcomes than outputs”. Mills-Scofield discusses the shortcomings of focusing on outputs, as… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, November 26th, 2012
There is a wide range of evidence demonstrating the positive changes HIV advocacy efforts have been able to bring about. The tricky part is designing and implementing an evaluation that will allow your organization to illustrate the value of such work. International HIV/AIDS Alliance and the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) have created… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, November 19th, 2012
Do you write program reports that may be difficult for the people you serve to interpret? Attend this webinar “Presenting Results in Ways that are Useful to Clients” to learn how to create community friendly reports. In this webinar, join Laura Bloomberg as she explores a few key guidelines and strategies to ensure that your evaluation… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Managing an evaluation involves agreeing on how decisions will be made for each aspect of the evaluation and ensuring they are implemented well. Better Evaluation offers 8 Simple Tasks to follow when managing an evaluation: 1. Understand and Engage Stakeholders 2. Establish Decision Making Processes 3. Decide Who Will Conduct the Evaluation 4. Determine and Secure… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Are you sick of boring, old PowerPoint presentations? Well don’t give up just yet. Susan Kistler shares 25 Low-cost/no-cost Tech Tools for Data Visualization and Reporting in her most recent blog post on the American Evaluation Association Website. Susan explores a range of online mediums that will help keep your audience actively engaged during your next… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
This week I have the opportunity to attend the 26th Annual American Evaluation Association Conference in Minneapolis. As part of my time here, I attended a workshop that focused on getting actionable answers and recommendations from evaluation reports. Have you ever read an evaluation report and still wondered how worthwhile the outcomes really were or… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
Looking for a more compelling way to demonstrate the value of the work your organization is doing? Demonstrating Value (DV), a Vancity Community Foundation Initiative, offers simple management solutions that enable you to use information and data more effectively to run your organization, plan for the future and show your value to the community. DV combines business… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
Have you ever wondered what impact BC’s community-based HIV and HCV organizations are making? PAN and the BC HIV/HCV Evaluation Advisory Group decided to work towards answering this question by developing the Community HIV/HCV Evaluation and Reporting Tool (the CHERT). The CHERT is an online survey tool that aims to collect annual data from community-based HIV/HCV… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, September 24th, 2012
Is your organization interested in understanding how your programs and services are operating? This 9-part Nonprofit Organizational Assessment Tool can help guide a group discussion about your organization’s operations. This group discussion ideally should include board members, staff, volunteers, and service recipients, but could be used as a self-assessment tool by anyone associated with a… Read more »
