Traditionally, funders expect evaluation to show that resources are being used wisely. But evaluation can be a much more powerful tool?for both funders and nonprofits. Forward-looking grantmakers and grantees are leveraging their evaluations, ensuring that the time and money spent ultimately improves effectiveness for everyone. This book shows how they're doing it, including ? How the ""evaluative learning"" approach furthers ongoing improvement via collaborative, stakeholder influenced evaluations ? How to bridge the differences in what funders and nonprofits need from evaluation ? How evaluation builds four critical capacities?leadership, adaptive capacity, management, and technical capacity ? Seven steps a funder can take to build the evaluative learning capacity in nonprofits ? Thirteen specific evaluative learning strategies that funders can support...
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