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Asana - Task Management for Teams. Techniques for research and evaluation. Sustain | The Innovation Center. Create infographics & online charts | infogr.am. GENDER EQUALITY Explorer. Gender Equality Explorer provides free, 24/7, user-friendly access to data disaggregated by gender from the U.S. Census Bureau collected through the American Community Survey. The tool enables you to create your own tables, maps and reports to illustrate, analyze and understand the status of women and girls in your community. Gender Equality Explorer was created by the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota’s Center on Women and Public Policy to expand the availability of data on women and girls and the capacity of individuals and organizations to use data to advance equality for women and girls across the country.
Engineered and powered by the award-winning Social Explorer, GENDER EQUALITY Explorer enables users to create tables, maps and reports to better illustrate, analyze and understand the current status of women and girls across America, and in their own community. Edna McConnell Clark Foundation : Building an Evidence Base. Evidence of a program’s impact ranges from anecdotal stories, to data collected ad hoc or systematically, to evaluations of varying sophistication that compare two sets of data, and to the gold standard for evaluations: randomized controlled trials.
Amassing evidence and advancing evaluation systematically is an ongoing, dynamic process we call building an evidence base. This enables an organization to continually improve its program and to replicate and expand it. We believe that the most effective nonprofits use data (from both systematically collected internal sources and rigorous external evaluations) for ongoing learning, self-evaluation and improvement. Such "data-driven" nonprofits understand what it is about their programs that makes a difference in the lives of young people, and use data to make better decisions as they seek to extend their impact. Innovation in the social sector cannot occur in a vacuum. Tearless Logic Model by Ashlee D. Lien, Justin P. Greenleaf, Michael K. Lemke, Sharon M. Hakim, Nathan P. Swink, Rosemary Wright, and Greg Meissen in GJCPP Volume 2 Issue 2 2011. Ashlee D. Lien, Justin P. Greenleaf, Michael K. Lemke, Sharon M. Hakim, Nathan P.
Swink, Rosemary Wright, and Greg Meissen Community Psychology Practice and Research Collaborative, and Community Psychology Doctoral Program, Wichita State University, Wichita KS, USA Even among people who know and have seen the value of logic models, the term can “strike fear into the hearts” of experienced community psychologists and veteran non-profit staff and board members alike. Several well-established logic model guides are available, including those developed by the W.K. As community psychologists it is important to meet people and organizations where they are. Tearless Logic Model Having used a number of the highly developed logic model approaches and formats in writing federal and foundation grants, we found ourselves failing miserably when we attempted to use these models collaboratively with community partners.
Flip charts Magic markers Blue painters’ tape Who do you serve or help? PDF of Tool. W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook - W.K. How to Draw an Outcomes DoView® | DoView. The Knowledge Worker's Tool Room: Conceptual and Visual Tools for Knowledge Workers. NOTICE: My book, Tools for Knowledge Workers, Vol 1, is now available on Kindle. It is a collection of 12 visual thinking tools along with information explaining each tool and how to use it, including examples and cases. Chapter 1 presents each tool in a one-page format. Chapters 2-13 discuss uses and applications of each tool. You can access the book on Amazon by clicking on the image below. The tools you will find here are tools that I've developed over the course of more than 40 years of working as a consultant (internal and external) and as an executive. All have been used in one way or another in the course of improving the performance of people, processes or organizations As you can see from scanning the thumbnails below, the tools are primarily visual in nature.
I add new tools from time to time and you will always find them at the bottom of the display. Contact me to discuss how these tools can be put to use improving the performance of your people, processes or organization. Evaluation home. All faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Extension Cooperative Extension are responsible for quality educational programs that produce positive and equitable results. To support a learning organization and to ensure the wise investment of resources, evaluation is part of each person’s job responsibilities. Written evaluation plans are developed as part of the program planning process. In recent years, the organization has moved to an outcome-based planning and reporting system with evaluation playing a critical role in learning, program improvement and accountability.
PDE is charged with providing leadership and capacity building in program evaluation through in-service education, resource material development, consultation, administrative support and managing high priority evaluations. Our main areas include: internal capacity development, community-based capacity development, research and development. Recipient of Distinguished Evaluator Award. A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. Lucid Chart. 25 Low-cost/No-cost Tools for Evaluation. Many Eyes. Creately.