The Manager's Guide to Program Evaluation
The Manager's Guide to Program Evaluation

Author: Paul W. Mattessich

Publisher: Fieldstone Alliance

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780940069381

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Your Guide to Getting a Useful Evaluation Evaluation is vital and beneficial to any nonprofit organization. An effective evaluation can help identify an organization's successes, share information with key audiences, and improve services. It can confirm that an organization is truly making a difference. This book is for: organization managers and decision makers, policymakers, funders, researchers, and students studying applied social service research. Benefits you'll get: describes what types of information to collect and what questions this information can answer; details the four phases of evaluation and the steps involved in each phase; and information on various types of research consultants and advice selecting one.

Manager's Guide to Program Evaluation: 2nd Edition
Manager's Guide to Program Evaluation: 2nd Edition

Author: Paul W Mattessich

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1684427908

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Your Guide to Getting a Useful Evaluation, now updated and revised in this second edition. Evaluation is vital and beneficial to any nonprofit organization. An effective evaluation can help identify an organization's successes, share information with key audiences, and improve services. It can confirm that an organization is truly making a difference, or what changes an organization needs to make in order to improve. This book describes what types of information to collect and what questions this information can answer, details the four phases of evaluation and the steps involved in each phase, and provides information on various types of research consultants and advice on selecting one. If you are an organization manager, decision maker, policymaker, funder, researcher, or student studying applied social service research, this guide is an essential resource for your knowledge of effective organizational management.

The Manager's Guide to Program Evaluation
The Manager's Guide to Program Evaluation

Author: Paul W Mattessich.

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2003-08-08

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1618589067

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Your Guide to Getting a Useful Evaluation Evaluation is vital and beneficial to any nonprofit organization. An effective evaluation can help identify an organization's successes, share information with key audiences, and improve services. It can confirm that an organization is truly making a difference. This book is for: organization managers and decision makers, policymakers, funders, researchers, and students studying applied social service research. Benefits you'll get: describes what types of information to collect and what questions this information can answer; details the four phases of evaluation and the steps involved in each phase; and information on various types of research consultants and advice selecting one.

Effective Nonprofit Management
Effective Nonprofit Management

Author: Joan E. Pynes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1317472314

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Employees with valuable skills and a sense of their own worth can make their jobs, pay, perks, and career opportunities different from those of their coworkers in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. This book shows how such individual arrangements can be made fair and acceptable to coworkers, and beneficial to both the employee and the employer.

Successful Program Evaluation
Successful Program Evaluation

Author: Michael K. Wells

Publisher: Continuing Education Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780876781203

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"Program evaluation is the key to an organization's success. Analyzing program outcomes can help you implement cost efficiencies and improve in areas that need extra attention. It gives you the opportunity to evaluate whether what you're doing is working, and if it's not, to make the necessary changes. A strong evaluation section in your grant proposal tells the grantor that the organization is succeeding in its mission, or if it's not, that it has a plan in place to improve future outcomes. This can make the difference between getting funded or turned down."--Book cover

The Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook for Nonprofit Organizations, Second Edition
The Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook for Nonprofit Organizations, Second Edition

Author: Marcia Avner

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1618588559

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The Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook for Nonprofit Organizations, Second Edition, is your complete road map to shaping public policy at the state and local level. It gives detailed, step-by-step instructions for developing an effective plan and putting it into action. With this handbook, you will discover how lobbying can help fulfill your mission; learn how to initiate, support, or defeat bills; develop effective lobbying skills; gather and mobilize support for your positions; learn how to use the media effectively; influence gov’t administrators to back your policy positions; comply with state and federal regulations; and set up systems in your nonprofit to support lobbying. In addition to updated worksheets, case studies, and resources, new material in the second edition includes nonprofit civic engagement and voter mobilization; designing the Policy Committee that works for your nonprofit; utilizing social media in your communications strategies; administrative advocacy: working with governmental agencies; and understanding the why, what and how of collaboration.

Interpersonal Violence in the African-American Community
Interpersonal Violence in the African-American Community

Author: Robert L. Hampton

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-04-21

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0387295984

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This book provides a solid foundation for understanding violence within the African-American community from the perspective of African Americans. It challenges existing stereotypes of African Americans and offers concrete advice on approaches that are, or might be, effective with African-American populations. The content is driven by real-world, evidence-based practices based on sound scientific foundations.

Prevention Is Primary
Prevention Is Primary

Author: Larry Cohen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-08-20

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0470873361

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The new edition of Prevention Is Primary provides models, methods, and approaches for building health and equity in communities. This comprehensive book includes the theory, concepts, and models needed to harness social justice and practice primary prevention of unnecessary illness and injury. Ideal for students as well as practitioners, this thoroughly revised and updated second edition combines an overview of advances in the field with effective approaches in the current economic and health care climate. With contributions from noted experts, Prevention Is Primary shows practical applications of intervention science to social and health problems and issues facing at-risk and vulnerable groups. The book describes the overarching framework and principles guiding prevention efforts, including a focus on social justice and health equity, and community resilience. It explores the transition from prevention theory to implementation and practice and from interdisciplinary collaboration to evaluation. Highlighting the book's usefulness as a teaching and learning tool, Prevention Is Primary has real world examples, learning objectives, and review questions for each chapter.

Evaluating the Impact of Leadership Development
Evaluating the Impact of Leadership Development

Author: Kelly Hannum

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-03-31

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0470260769

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Implement Evaluation the CCL Way Evaluating the Impact of Leadership Development is a step-by-step guidebook for creating and implementing evaluation of leadership development systems. Approaching issues from an evaluative perspective enables leadership development professionals to consider multiple perspectives and draw lessons as a natural part of the way work is done. Advance praise for Evaluating the Impact of Leadership Development "This refreshingly practical guide to evaluating leadership activities will provide the confidence and the evidence to reinvigorate the international community's support for effective leadership to address the major global issues of today." -John Davidson, senior public sector specialist, The World Bank "An extremely well-written book! It will help evaluation practitioners demonstrate to their stakeholders where and how evaluation adds unique values to leadership development initiatives." -Huilan Yang, evaluation manager and project leader, W. K. Kellogg Foundation "Hannum and Martineau have nailed this topic! In their mission to educate and assist others in evaluating leadership development, they have provided a valuable guide that is rich with practical tools and examples that enable anyone to think systematically about how to effectively demonstrate the value of their leadership development programs and approaches." -Leslie W. Joyce, vice president and chief learning officer, The Home Depot

Managing Program Evaluation: Towards Explicating a Professional Practice
Managing Program Evaluation: Towards Explicating a Professional Practice

Author: Donald W. Compton

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 2009-04-13

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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This book explores issues in understanding managing evaluation: an often invisible process guiding evaluation studies, evaluators, other workers and evaluation units. The chapters define and illustrate through four case studies. Central questions in the domain of managing are: Should the evaluation field recognize managing as a core professional expertise? Should it promote this by legitimizing preparation of experts and expertise? What should curriculum, pedagogy, and learning sites be? The authors suggest beginning foci, curricula, and pedagogy in managing evaluation and wish to stimulate reflection and conversation within our profession on how to manage evaluation in various contexts and multiple layers.