Level Best: How Small and Grassroots Nonprofits Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Marcia Festen; Marianne Philbin
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Evaluating what you do is the first step toward increasing organizational effectiveness and, later successfully documenting your work and marketing your organization.
Level Best offers guidance that demystifies evaluation and takes into account the unique challenges and realities of grassroots nonprofit organizations. It provides a new framework for thinking about evaluation and tools for measuring and sharing results in ways that are practical, efficient, and meaningful.
Veteran authors Marcia Festen and Marianne Philbin break down the evaluation process into five stages-planning, asking, tracking, learning, and using--and show you how to integrate evaluation into your ongoing work. Their approach emphasizes that evaluation at its best is about learning rather than judging and improving rather than proving, and that it is overall an integral part of achieving your mission.
The book draws on the authors' experience with nonprofits, foundations, donors, and boards of directors, and the expertise of evaluation professionals and nonprofit managers. It includes sample forms, checklists, and materials that have been used successfully by real-life organizations, and provides sample meeting agendas that will help you make decisions and move through an evaluation process from start to finish.
In easy-to-follow steps, Level Best will help you develop your evaluation plan, gather your data, and use the lessons learned to strengthen your organization and make the best possible case for continued support.
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- Title Level Best: How Small and Grassroots Nonprofits Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results
- Author Marcia Festen; Marianne Philbin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons, San Francisco
- Date 2006-10-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780787979065 / 0787979066
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 7.56 x 0.43 in (23.37 x 19.20 x 1.09 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Nonprofit organizations - Management, Nonprofit organizations - Evaluation
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006023713
- Dewey Decimal Code 658.401
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2007, Page 115
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