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Find out more Other QAA websites Educational oversight View all Follow us. College Portraits. Nonprofit Planning and Self-Assessment - Learn About Nonprofit Planning and Assessment. One of the most profound things Peter Drucker said in his little book, The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Nonprofit Organization, was: Planning is not an event. It is the continuous process of strengthening what works and abandoning what does not, of making risk-taking decisions with the greatest knowledge of their potential effect, of setting objectives, appraising performance and results through systematic feedback, and making ongoing adjustments as conditions change. Five Questions, originally published in the 1990s, has been republished in a new edition...a joint project of Drucker's Leader to Leader Institute and Jossey-Bass.
To reflect its universality, the "nonprofit" in the first edition has been dropped so that the new title reads The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization. As in the original, the book is organized around basic questions: What is our mission? Who is our customer? Drucker adds three sub questions: EFFECTIVENESS INITIATIVES. As recently documented in The Foundation Review, this evaluation web portal demonstrates the Bruner Foundation's longstanding commitment to the effectiveness of nonprofit-services.
To quote author Gail Berkowitz, the web portal "is a helpful one stop site for resources for funders and their partners on evaluation capacity building and evaluative thinking". To read the full review, please click here <Bruner Foundation Evaluation Web Portal Review> Since 1996 the Bruner Foundation has focused on initiatives and partnerships that seek to increase effectiveness in the non-profit service delivery sector by strengthening internal evaluation capacity, by increasing the use of evaluative thinking in a wide range of organizational areas and ultimately, by building sustainable organizational evaluative capacity – the combining of evaluation skills with evaluative thinking. Nonprofit web sites: Outcome Measurement. Organizational Assessment Tool. Learner Resource Center: Nonprofit Organizational Assessment Tool - Center for Community and Economic Development - UWEX.
The Steppingstone Foundation: A Case Study in Growing to Full Potential. Nonprofit Management | Opinion Blog.