What is evaluation? How can it help your organization? And how can you work more effectively with your evaluator? This handbook is designed to demystify evaluation and help you get the most out of evaluation for your organization. The evaluation profession is multi-faceted and can be characterized partly by its theoretical debates, ethical considerations and proprietary interests. This handbook will not attempt to provide in-depth evaluation information that has little relevance to the day-to-day evaluation needs of nonprofit directors and staff, nor will it transform anyone into an evaluator. On the contrary, the goal of this handbook is to educate busy nonprofit directors and staff, such as yourself, about the essential elements of evaluation, so you can work more effectively with trained evaluators; hold evaluators accountable to the highest standards of quality, integrity and competency; and maximize the usefulness of evaluation to your organization. The scope of your evaluation may include a single program, a multi-site initiative or a multifaceted strategy aimed at systems and community change. Regardless of the complexity of the effort, the basics for evaluating it remain the same and this handbook was written to impart information about these basics

The Step-by-Step Guide to Evaluation: How to Become Savvy Evaluation Consumers

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What is evaluation? How can it help your organization? And how can you work more effectively with your evaluator? This handbook is designed to demystify evaluation and help you get the most out of evaluation for your organization. The evaluation profession is multi-faceted and can be characterized partly by its theoretical debates, ethical considerations and proprietary interests. This handbook will not attempt to provide in-depth evaluation information that has little relevance to the day-to-day evaluation needs of nonprofit directors and staff, nor will it transform anyone into an evaluator. On the contrary, the goal of this handbook is to educate busy nonprofit directors and staff, such as yourself, about the essential elements of evaluation, so you can work more effectively with trained evaluators; hold evaluators accountable to the highest standards of quality, integrity and competency; and maximize the usefulness of evaluation to your organization. The scope of your evaluation may include a single program, a multi-site initiative or a multifaceted strategy aimed at systems and community change. Regardless of the complexity of the effort, the basics for evaluating it remain the same and this handbook was written to impart information about these basics

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