Directory of Evaluation Tools

By Nicole Wallace

The Foundation Center and the consulting firm McKinsey & Company have created an online directory of more than 150 tools and methodologies designed to help charities measure whether their work is making a difference. “The thought was to eliminate the need for starting from scratch and allow people to benefit from the work that others have done,” says Larry McGill, vice president for research at the center. “In some cases, that will mean benefiting from some of the blind alleys that people have gone down.” A committee of experts, gathered by the New York University Stern School of Business, classified the resources according to such factors as the stage of the evaluation process to which they apply, what types of organizations they are most likely to help, and the costs involved. For more information: Go to http://trasi.foundationcenter.org.

1. Evaluation Nonprofits | GreatNonprofits.org  Leading Source of Ratings & Reviews Of Local & National Charities
2. Big Tools, Little Price | donor.com  Donor CRM, website, email, inventory, sponsorship, CC/EFT.
3. Non-Profit Tools | GuideStar.org  Find revenue, compensation and expense data today. Learn More.
4. Innovation Network  We are a nonprofit organization working to share planning and evaluation tools and know-how. We provide consulting, training, and online tools for nonprofits …
5. Effective Nonprofit Evaluation: Through a “Community of Learners”  File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – Quick View
   evaluation as a tool for realizing the organization’s goals while simultaneously building a culture for continuous improvement. Nonprofits that engage in a CoL …
6. Tools and Resources – The James Irvine Foundation   Irvine seeks to promote the effective use ofevaluation techniques by nonprofits and other foundations.
7. Get Started – Fundraising Ethics: A Selected Resource List   Evaluation for Nonprofit Organizations … A Funder’s Guide to Organizational Assessment: Tools, Processes, and Their Use in Building Capacity. St. Paul, MN:…
8. Project evaluation guide for … – Nonprofit Library – Imagine Canada  Quick View   TEMPLATE FOREVALUATION TOOLS (MATRIX)

1. Evaluation Activities in Organizations  managementhelp.org/evaluation/ – Nonprofit Program Design, Marketing and Evaluation: by Carter McNamara, …
2. Build Tools for Nonprofit Sustainability and Innovative Giving Cluster …Build Tools for NonprofitSustainability/Innovative Giving. Cluster Evaluation Plan

1. Assessing Nonprofit Organizational Capacity / Evaluation …Subscribe to The Evaluation Exchange. Abby Weiss from HFRP describes the tool that the Marguerite Casey Foundation offers its nonprofit grantees.
2. Program evaluation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Program evaluations can involve both quantitative and qualitative.  A nonprofit organization can share planning and evaluation tools.