Results List
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What is Strategic Learning
and How Do You Develop an Organizational Culture that Encourages It? The Evaluation Exchange Volume XI, No. 2, Summer 2005 Issue Topic: Evaluation Methodology Ask the Expert John A. Healy, Director of Strategic Learning and Evaluation at The Atlantic Philanthropies, shares ways to position learning…
Author: The Evaluation Exchange
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Atlantic’s Approach to Evaluation: What Is Important to Learn, and How Do We Put It to Use?
When I was named President of Atlantic last year, I doubt that a rousing chorus of cheers went up in the offices of the American Evaluation Association. Atlantic takes evaluation very seriously, but in my philanthropic and activist life before coming here, I didn’t have…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Evaluation of family support programmes published
Genio, an Atlantic grantee, has just published a report on the evaluation of family support programmes for people with a disability in Ireland. In 2010, Genio supported four family-focused projects through small grants. The objective of these projects was to build capacity within families to…
Author: Genio
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Evaluation Spotlight: Staying After School in College
Lessons from a university certificate program for after-school staff. 01 Oct 2008 by Erika Fitzpatrick In a mostly glowing initial review of a certificate program for after-school workers in New York City lies a dash of cold reality: the need for pathways of advancement for…
Author: YouthToday
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Mid-Point Findings of National Evaluation Show Effectiveness of CIS Model
Original Source The first results to emerge from the Communities In Schools National Evaluation, an independent, third-party study, indicate that the CIS Model of integrated student services has a positive impact on school-wide outcomes. Based on an in-depth analysis of 1,766 CIS schools and comparative analysis of…
Author: Communities In Schools
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Morrow-Howell and McCrary win Generations United Award for evaluation of Experience Corps tutoring program
Original Source By Jessica Martin July 31, 2009 — Nancy Morrow-Howell, Ph.D. the Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work and Stacey McCrary, project manager, both at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, are winners of the prestigious Generations United 2009 Brabazon…
Author: Washington University in St. Louis
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Philanthropy can be made to measure
By Gara LaMarche The philanthropic world, poked and prodded by a wave of new donors fresh from success in the business world, is grappling with the issue of evaluation. How do we know that grants or, as they are now often called, reflecting the influence…
Author: Financial Times
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New National Collaborative Aims to Improve Outcomes for Boys and Men of Color
Improving Outcomes for Boys and Men of Color: New National Collaborative Aims to Identify and Share Best Practices and Fund Cross-Cutting Academic and Community-Based Research A new multifaceted effort, RISE (Research, Integration, Strategy and Evaluation) for Boys and Men of Color, has launched to identify…
Author: University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
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New Research Collection on Improving Access to Palliative Care
Sharing Knowledge, Finding Solutions As Atlantic Philanthropies makes its final philanthropic investments, it is asking some important questions, including: “How can we all build on the advances and lessons learned from our thirty-plus years of grantmaking?” and “How can we make sure that valuable knowledge on issues…
Author: Philantopic
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Shared Systems of Measurement Increase Nonprofits' Impact, Report Finds
Original Source The emergence of evaluation systems that enable hundreds or thousands of nonprofits to measure their performance on common indicators and shared evaluation platforms is helping to enhance funder and nonprofit effectiveness, a new report from Boston-based FSG Social Impact Advisors finds. Funded by…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
