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What Leaders Need: Program Evaluation
December 5 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am
How do you know if you are making progress toward your organization’s ambitious vision and mission?
How do you quantify your program’s impact?
Are there ways you could work smarter, not harder?
In this session, we will demystify some foundational data and evaluation Concepts and recommend tangible ways in which your organization can implement new approaches to begin building a data-informed culture.
Join us to learn:
- How to build and refine the foundation of a successful evaluation plan: Your organization’s logic model;
- Strategies for defining, measuring, and reporting on program outcomes;
- Approaches to process evaluation and leading ongoing quality improvement efforts; and
- Tools and instruments to support data collection.
Presenter: Sarah Swain
Sarah Swain has spent the last 15 years designing and evaluating social service programs across a variety of populations and issue areas, including adult education, college access, workforce readiness, community development, immigration, small business, senior services, urban farming, and more!
Sarah is a curious learner who believes there is a solution (or many solutions!) to big nonprofit challenges and is energized by building systems that help programs operate at their best. Her approach integrates community voice, research, and evaluation – viewing each as a key ingredient to program effectiveness and innovation.
Sarah is passionate about making data and evaluation practices more accessible to small and medium-sized organizations.