Level Best – How Small and Grassroots Nonprofits Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results

Figure, Tables, Worksheets, Exhibits, Agendas.
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>How to Use This Book.</p>
<p>Instruction with Samples and Examples.</p>
<p>1 Understanding Evaluation.</p>
<p>Evaluation as Power Instead of Pain.</p>
<p>What Evaluation Is and What It Is Not.</p>
<p>2 A Simple Evaluation Framework.</p>
<p>The Basic Evaluation Framework.</p>
<p>Key Concepts:What to Evaluate and How to Get Started.</p>
<p>The Rolling Evaluation Method.</p>
<p>3 Planning Your Evaluation.</p>
<p>A Quick Review of Basic Organizational Readiness.</p>
<p>Definition of an Effective Organization.</p>
<p>What You Plan Affects What You Learn.</p>
<p>Step by Step: Planning Your Evaluation.</p>
<p>Understanding Funders Needs and Fitting Them into Your Evaluation Plan.</p>
<p>Why Setting Goals Makes Evaluation Easier.</p>
<p>How You Can Prepare.</p>
<p>4 Asking the Right Questions.</p>
<p>Clear Program Goals Guide Evaluation Questions and Choices.</p>
<p>What to Evaluate:What You Do Versus What Your Constituents Do.</p>
<p>If or Then:Which to Evaluate?</p>
<p>The Relationship Between Evaluating What You Do (Process) and What They Do (Outcome).</p>
<p>Determine the Right Questions.</p>
<p>Ask What You Really Want to Know.</p>
<p>How Advocacy Organizations Can Approach Evaluation.</p>
<p>How to Be Answerable When Advocacy and Organizing Are Your Agenda.</p>
<p>Ideas for Measuring Organizing Efforts.</p>
<p>5 Tracking Information.</p>
<p>Options for Tracking Information.</p>
<p>The Right Goal Statement Helps Determine the Right Things to Track.</p>
<p>6 Learning From and Using the Information.</p>
<p>Making Use of Your Information.</p>
<p>Organizing Your Information.</p>
<p>Drawing Conclusions.</p>
<p>Using What You Learn.</p>
<p>Sharing Your Evaluation Results with the Outside World.</p>
<p>Feeding Results into the Cycle of Planning.</p>
<p>Tying Evaluation into Planning.</p>
<p>Deciding Where to Begin.</p>
<p>Incorporating Evaluation into Your Strategic Planning Process.</p>
<p>Resources.</p>
<p>A Commonly Used Terms and Their Definitions.</p>
<p>B Types of Evaluation.</p>
<p>C Sample Completed Evaluation Planning Worksheet.</p>
<p>D Sample Evaluation Report Outline.</p>
<p>E Program Evaluation Standards.</p>
<p>Acknowledgments.</p>
<p>About the Authors.</p>
<p>References.</p>
<p>Index.</p>