As an internal evaluator in a multiservice community-based youth center, one of my many roles and goals is to foster an organizational culture of learning and evaluation. What does this really mean? And how do we know whether we’ve achieved it? One of several frameworks for…
If you worked for the federal, state, or local government, or if you worked for a foundation, or if you were a private donor… Would you rather fund a program that: Had zero prior evaluation data vs. had prior evaluation data that showed little or no positive results?…
I work at a large urban youth center with about 50 distinct youth development programs all under one roof. It’s exciting to work at a multiservice agency where children, teens, and adults in the community can access so many services all in one building. I…
Program evaluation can take many forms depending on the type of information that people are hoping to gather. As an internal evaluator at a large urban youth center, I evaluate each of our 50+ youth development programs. Each evaluation is a little different because different…
There are so many wonderful things about program evaluation. Here are a few: Program evaluation helps everyday people make sense of numbers. Program evaluation helps the people who run programs understand the link between what they’re doing and what they hope to accomplish. This is one of…