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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation? Who decides what is measured?

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How grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients can do great things together with data and evaluation

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. Meanwhile, I’d like to offer my own recommendations.

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Public Sector & Nonprofit Case Management Software

Bonterra

Learn more 20 years of case management experience Improve together With over 20 years of experience, Bonterra has helped thousands of nonprofits and public sector agencies consolidate their data and reporting, develop more impactful programming, and secure more funding so they can continue to support their communities.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis.

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Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

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In a 2022 survey, nearly 70% of respondents cited building measurement, evaluation, and learning capabilities as a critical area in which they would like to invest. As such, effective approaches to measurement and learning reflect a multiplicity of stakeholders.

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What Are You Really Asking? A Checklist for Grantmakers

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In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. What am I looking for with this question?

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress. Experiences like the following make Millennials and GenX, groups that associations are seeking to engage, consider even long-standing organizations with a dose of suspicion.