Evaluate Your Work

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Whether you want to reach the public, policymakers or funders, it's important to be able to provide evidence that your work is effective—using evaluations techniques that are appropriate to your goals and approach. Get tips, tools and ideas below.

Tools to Evaluate Your Work

April 29, 2013 Measuring Success: A Guide to Becoming an Evidence-Based Practice

Demonstrating that a program accomplishes its stated goals is increasingly important for social service organizations—funders and clients want to see the ...

April 10, 2013 Resources for Evaluating Community Organizing (RECO)

Community organizing brings communities together to advance shared goals. Properly evaluating those efforts can lead to success over time.

November 1, 2012 Evaluation for Nonprofit Organizations: Resources to Know

Coming up short on the "evaluation" section of your grant proposals? Looking for better ways to track and measure your organization's progress and ...

April 19, 2012 Webinar: Charting Your Impact

Defining and describing impact is critical to nonprofits' success, and Charting Impact can help your organization think strategically, communicate effectively, ...

March 19, 2012 The Rational Middle

As more school districts across the country move closer to consensus on teacher evaluation, here in Los Angeles we've barely left the starting gate. The ...

January 31, 2012 Do's and Don'ts for Nonprofits in an Election Year

Think that because your part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit you can’t engage in any electoral advocacy? Think again. The IRS prohibits some election-year ...

January 24, 2012 From Geek to Chic: Using Data to Improve Education

Don't let the title fool you, the Data Quality Campaign National Data Summit was an exciting event for students and anyone who cares about school reform and ...

November 3, 2011 Using State Tests to Measure Student Achievement in Multi-State Experiments

An important question for educational evaluators is how best to measure academic achievement, the outcome of primary interest in many studies. In large-scale ...

October 31, 2011 One Size Can't Fit All: Evaluating PreK-3 Teachers

Teacher effectiveness has emerged as a critical – and intensely-debated – issue in education reform. This November 8, 2011 webinar will highlight ...

October 18, 2011 Map of PreK-3rd Success Stories: A Work-In-Progress

This interactive PreK-3rd map recognizes states, school districts, schools, and education and advocacy organizations across the United States that are “on the ...

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