This slideshare explains why nonprofit organizations should evaluate their programs. Beyond documenting program outcomes, it argues that program evaluation can and should be a key component of program improvement.
19. Expectations that without the program,
people/ institutions/ communities would
not have changed.
* If you remember back to
your statistics course, this
was called the null
hypothesis.
40. Because maybe the girls need more
teachers like Ms. Smith.
*Find out what Ms. Smith
does that she’s so
effective with the girls.
41. And only the less experienced
counselors need more training.
42. And only the less experienced
counselors need more training.
* Devote resources to
retraining just the less
experienced counselors.
43. And the workforce readiness program
needs to treat people with experience
doing office work differently than
those who held blue collar jobs.
44. And the workforce readiness program
needs to treat people with experience
doing office work differently than
those who held blue collar jobs.
* Create two different programs,
one for former office workers,
the other for former blue
collar workers.
45. Maybe what this means is that
evaluation is about more than just
the number.
46. Maybe beyond asking
the question “did the
program work” it
should ask:
Where did it work?
For whom?
Under what circumstances?
47. We believe that effective organizations use
evaluation to document positive outcomes….