New Guide Details Evaluation Tools

September 8, 2013

Idealware, a nonprofit technology group, has published a new guide to the different types of software charities can use to collect, analyze, and visualize program data.

Nonprofits can find plenty of guidance on how to evaluate programs, but there’s very little about the tools they can use to do that, says Laura Quinn, executive director of Idealware: “It’s such an obvious area where technology can fit in and apply.”

To get there: Go to idealware.org.

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NICOLE WALLACE

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.