A List of Resources to Help Nonprofit Groups Assess Their Programs
June 12, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute
IN THE TRENCHES
The following resources can offer assistance for charities that seek to evaluate their work.
Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs,
by Melvin M. Mark, Gary T. Henry, and George Julnes (Jossey-Bass, 2000; $32.95).
The Foundation Center’s Topical Resource List: Grantmakers and Best Practices includes a section on evaluations.
Innovation Network, a nonprofit organization in Washington that helps charities evaluate their work, offers an extensive directory of Web-based evaluation tools, along with a bibliography and a glossary of commonly used terms.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, in Battle Creek, Mich., publishes an Evaluation Handbook for its grantees that may be useful to other charities. The grant maker also offers a Logic Model Development Guide, to help create diagrams that depict and link the theories and assumptions underlying a program, its activities, and its short- and long-term results.
The University of Richmond Nonprofit Resource Center offers a list of resources for nonprofit organizations that is maintained by ConnectRichmond, a project of the Campus Community Partnership of Metro Richmond, an informal consortium among several colleges and universities in that area of Virginia.
— Kimberlee Roth
