Evaluation

Briefing papers

Creating a Community of Learners: Successful Evaluative Learning for Nonprofits and Funders
The increasing emphasis on evaluation and accountability has led nonprofits to reconsider how they conduct evaluations in an effort to find a way that is both meaningful to the staff and useful for their funders. This paper explores the Community of Learners approach as an evaluation method that actively involves the staff and leaders of a foundation or nonprofit in the evaluation process.

Learning As We Go: Making Evaluation Work for Everyone
This paper distills what TCC has learned about evaluative learning and provides information and tools to help you take the next steps so everyone can "learn as we go."

Books & Reports

A Funder's Guide to Evaluation: Leveraging Evaluation to Improve Nonprofit Effectiveness
TCC Group's Director of Evaluation, Pete York, authored a funder's guide to evaluation. Click here for an order form.

Articles

Evaluating Capacity-building Efforts for Nonprofit Organizations
This paper explains how funders, management support organizations, evaluators, and nonprofits can evaluate efforts to enhance the management and governance of nonprofit organizations.