Internal Evaluation In Non Profit Organisations

Author : Leanne M. Kelly,Alison Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000592795

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Internal Evaluation in Non-Profit Organisations by Leanne M. Kelly,Alison Rogers Pdf

Focused on the interpersonal aspects of internal evaluation in non-profit organisations, this book presents practice-based discussions centred on six key topics identified through the authors’ experience as evaluation practitioners. Internal Evaluation in Non-Profit Organisations: Practitioner Perspectives on Theory, Research, and Practice is not a step-by-step how-to guide; instead, each chapter unpacks an aspect of internal evaluation in non-profits that is paid insufficient heed in the existing literature. Written by and for internal evaluation practitioners, the book contains a plethora of practical strategies and critical analysis of thought-provoking topics that are of particular interest and importance to internal evaluators in non-profit settings. The authors understand the pressures facing practitioners and non-profit organisations and share their insights around improving evaluation’s ability to be efficient, embedded, useful, and meaningful. This book will be of interest to researchers, scholars, and students focusing on non-profit management and will hold specific value for internal evaluators who want to harness their unique and influential position to help organisations achieve their goals. Further, this book is ideal for individuals wanting to think critically about evaluation and improve evaluation utilisation by developing their professional capability, building teamwork skills, using informal everyday data, incorporating theory, and developing fruitful relationships with external evaluators.

Author : James Cutt,Vic Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134613373

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Accountability and Effectiveness Evaluation in Nonprofit Organizations by James Cutt,Vic Murray Pdf

This unique volume provides new perspectives on assessing the performance of nonprofit organizations whilst meeting the information needs of decision-makers, both internal (such as resource-providers, regulators and clients), and external (including boards, managers, staff and volunteers). Whilst most discussions of accountability focus exclusively on financial accountability, this title offers a significant contribution to a relatively untouched area by combining the treatment of both evaluation and accountability from a managerial perspective. With increased interest in the concept that nonprofit organizations must be accountable, this topical volume fills a gap in the literature that postgraduates and scholars of business studies and management will find invaluable.

Author : Leanne M. Kelly
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030589790

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Evaluation in Small Development Non-Profits by Leanne M. Kelly Pdf

Research on evaluation shows that low-use and non-use of evaluation is common, yet evaluation is hailed as beneficial and worthwhile. The worth of evaluation is tied to its utilisation, presenting a paradox if evaluation is both revered and underutilised. This book investigates this paradox in the under-researched context of small development non-profit organisations, which have specific resource constraints and ‘bottom up’ community development values that complicate their ability to do and use evaluation in line with top down directives. The book examines the utility, meaningfulness, and purpose of evaluation from small non-profit perspectives, and explores whether evaluation has value for these organisations. For development practice, it presents evaluative alternatives that reconceptualise evaluation as part of the active process of development rather than as an interval-based add-on. For evaluation theory, it highlights a historical preoccupation with improving evaluation without assessing its inherent worth, and considers alternative ways to enhance the value of evaluation for small non-profits.

Author : Gail J. Fults
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351984812

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How Participatory Evaluation Research Affects the Management Control Process of a Multinational Nonprofit Organization by Gail J. Fults Pdf

This title, first published in 1993, addresses two questions: can evaluation research function as a surrogate market in non-profit organisations to measure, value, and assess the goods and services they provide? And second, can the findings from an evaluation process be incorporated as a service accomplishment element into the accounting information published by non-profit organisations? This title will be of interest to students of business studies.

Author : Patrizia Gazzola,Stefano Amelio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000813203

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Performance Measurement in Non-Profit Organizations by Patrizia Gazzola,Stefano Amelio Pdf

Performance Measurement in Non-Profit Organizations: The Road to Integrated Reporting addresses the issue of performance measurement in nonprofit companies with the aim of defining a system of useful measures to understand, manage, and improve the performance of such companies by employing systems theory to examine their conditions of existence and manifestations of life. From the proposed company model follows that the system of performance measures should make it possible to keep under control both the productive transformation, with the physical-technical efficiency indicators, and the economic transformation, with the economic efficiency indicators, and the financial transformation with the financial efficiency indicators, and finally the managerial transformation with the effectiveness indicators, taking into account the degree of satisfaction of the expectations of the main categories of company stakeholders. Readers will understand that economic analysis alone is not sufficient to assess the performance of such organizations, but it is necessary to unite it with the analysis of sustainability dimensions. It would therefore be appropriate to draw up an integrated report that combines the economic and financial dimensions with the pillars of sustainability, as in the case of companies in the second sector. There is a gap in the literature in this area that this book aims to fill, making it a valuable resource to researchers, academics, and advanced students interested in performance evaluation of NPOs.

Author : Fataneh Zarinpoush,Imagine Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nonprofit organizations
ISBN : 1554013151

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Project Evaluation Guide for Nonprofit Organizations by Fataneh Zarinpoush,Imagine Canada Pdf

Author : Robinson, Paul A., C.A,LAMP Consultants to Non-Profits,David Lewis,King, Debbie,MacEachern, Toni
Publisher : Kitchener, Ont. : LAMP Consultants to Non-Profits
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : 1895577241

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A Guide to Program Evaluation for Accountability in Non-Profit Organizations by Robinson, Paul A., C.A,LAMP Consultants to Non-Profits,David Lewis,King, Debbie,MacEachern, Toni Pdf

Author : Joanne G. Carman,Kimberly A. Fredericks
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132371910

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Nonprofits and Evaluation by Joanne G. Carman,Kimberly A. Fredericks Pdf

This issue of New Directions for Evaluation explores evaluation within the context of nonprofit organizations. In recent years, many have observed that nonprofit organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their effectiveness and coument their program outcomes, as the current political and funding environment continues to stress the importance of accountability and measuring performance. Foundations, government agencies, and other funders are asking nonprofit organizations for more evaluation and performance measurement data. Yet, most nonprofit organizations continue to struggle with these demands, and many lack the capacity to implement evaluation and performance measurement in comprehensive or meaningful ways.

Author : Richard C. Sonnichsen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761911531

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High Impact Internal Evaluation by Richard C. Sonnichsen Pdf

Today rapidly changing organizations need the best tools for driving high performance, meeting customer needs, measuring outcomes and improving service delivery. This book shows how to effectively use internal evaluation to determine a business or program's effectiveness, efficiency, economy and performance. It combines theory with the author's extensive experience to provide an indispensable resource for novice internal evaluators, experienced evaluation professionals and for managers responsible for evaluating their own programs.

Author : Liliana Rodríguez-Campos
Publisher : IAP
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623969905

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Collaborative Evaluations in Practice by Liliana Rodríguez-Campos Pdf

One of the reasons some groups are more effective than others is collaboration; people implement evaluative decisions more willingly if they have collaborated on those decisions. This book introduces real-world applications of the Model for Collaborative Evaluations (MCE) in business, nonprofit, and education to make collaborative evaluations more accessible to you. The MCE is a systematic framework that revolves around a set of six interactive components specific to conducting a collaborative evaluation. It represents a practical attempt to capture the essence of collaborative evaluation from various perspectives in order to offer a valuable understanding of different stances that often arise when using this type of approach. A multidisciplinary team of authors enriches the diverse perspectives of this book with their international and cross-cultural expertise. The intention is to share a deeper understanding of how this approach is applied to build collaborative relationships within an evaluation, recognizing the level of collaboration will vary in each situation.

Author : Tatjana Horvat
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789856279

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Selected Aspects of Non-Profit Organisations by Tatjana Horvat Pdf

The volatility of the economy, political instability, and greater demands on not-for-profit organisations (non-profits) will require considerable rethinking and refocusing for many organisations. These days, non-profits evolve while attempting to regain financial ground, focusing more on workflow, fundraising, and staffing. The book highlights the upcoming challenges, among others funding instability, with a continuing shift in funding with more grantors focusing on funding mobilisation instead of intervention. Another challenge is clustering, which is where organisations are more likely to band together with others to share overhead costs, resources, and personnel. The non-profit sector will undergo essential integrations where the free flow of data and information will be crucial. Non-profits will continue to adjust their goals and priorities to meet changing trends. While the top priority was once acquiring new donors, that has now been eclipsed by the need for non-profits to engage the community and promote general brand awareness.

Author : Leslie R. Crutchfield,Heather McLeod Grant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118118801

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Forces for Good by Leslie R. Crutchfield,Heather McLeod Grant Pdf

An updated edition of a groundbreaking book on best practices for nonprofits What makes great nonprofits great? In the original book, authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant employed a rigorous research methodology derived from for-profit books like Built to Last. They studied 12 nonprofits that have achieved extraordinary levels of impact—from Habitat for Humanity to the Heritage Foundation—and distilled six counterintuitive practices that these organizations use to change the world. Features a new introduction that explores the new context in which nonprofits operate and the consequences for these organizations Includes a new chapter on applying the Six Practices to small, local nonprofits, including some examples of these organizations Contains an update on the 12 organizations featured in the original book—how they have fared, what they've learned, and where they are now in their growth trajectory This book has lessons for all readers interested in creating significant social change, including nonprofit managers, donors, and volunteers.

Author : James Cutt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nonprofit organizations
ISBN : OCLC:1409187592

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Accountability and Effectiveness Evaluation in Non-profit Organizations by James Cutt Pdf

Author : Jason Saul
Publisher : Fieldstone Alliance
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780940069435

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Benchmarking for Nonprofits by Jason Saul Pdf

The no-cost way to improve your organization on a daily basis Most nonprofits are already benchmarking informally. This unique book defines a formal way to benchmark. You'll learn how to prepare your organization, measure performance, and implement best practices as well as learning the five key steps of benchmarking, the arguments against benchmarking--and why you should disregard them, how benchmarking differs from evaluation and assessment, how to form a benchmarking team, how to create a "success equation" that helps you measure your organization's performance, how to make sure to measure what matters, how to choose your benchmarking partners--and what you can learn from the "wrong" partner, and how to overcome staff resistance to benchmarking. Practical tools help you benchmark what matters Real-world examples illustrate benchmarking in action. Exercises and worksheets guide you through processes such as drafting a benchmarking plan; identifying and analyzing the things in your organization that need improvement; prioritizing which processes to focus on; identifying your CTQ (critical to quality) outcomes; and more. The way to survive as a nonprofit in today's market is to thrive. With so many organizations seeking the same dollars, only the best will endure. Benchmarking ensures that your organization is always operating at peak performance. It's something you can't afford not to do--especially since you can do it for free!

Author : Emmanuel Jean-François
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780826129833

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Financial Sustainability for Nonprofit Organizations by Emmanuel Jean-François Pdf

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