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Outcome Measurement Resource Network Who is Involved in Outcome Measurement? Other Nonprofit Sector Organizations - Innovation Network, Inc.: Program Evaluation Practice in the Nonprofit Sector
- This study... was designed to determine which of these broad approaches [traditional or participatory] are being used by nonprofits, to what extent they are being used, and with what effects. Analysis revealed that the methods and components of past and present evaluations being conducted by nonprofit organizations add up to a complex constellation that does not fall neatly into easily definable categories. Therefore, this study focused on exploring the role of stakeholder participation in program evaluation since it is a key element that distinguishes between traditional and participatory approaches to evaluation. In particular, the study addressed whether different levels of stakeholder participation are associated with various organizational characteristics, evaluation characteristics and evaluation outcomes. The study also sought to determine how organizations used evaluation results and whether the uses are associated with different levels of stakeholder participation. [from Executive Summary]
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation: Evaluation Handbook.
- View the entire handbook online. Includes a section on outcome evaluation, as well as a lot of other useful information about the context of evaluation, implementing an evaluation, and using findings.
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Performance Assessment of Municipal Government Program
- The goal for this program is to encourage the creation and use of measures of municipal government performance that objectively measure outcomes that matter to people. The program's approach emphasizes citizen involvement both in choosing what is measured and in checking or even gathering the data. This is to ensure that what is measured is what matters to citizens and that the data are not corrupted by the natural desire of officeholders to report favorable outcomes.
- The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- The Annie E. Casey Foundation has several publications focusing on indicators and outcome measurement. Check particularly the KIDS COUNT project and the publication Evaluating Comprehensive Community Change or check the entire site on research and evaluation.
- The Urban Institute
- The Urban Institute's publications include numerous titles on outcome measurement such as: Performance Measurement: Getting Results//An Agenda for Action: Outcome Measurement in Non Profit Organizations//Evaluation for Human Services Programs: A Guide for Policy Makers//Vital Records: A Source for Neighborhood Indicators//Strategic Planning and Performance Measurement. For a brief description or to order these publications, please click.
- Independent Sector
- Independent Sector is a nonprofit coalition of over 800 corporate, foundation, and voluntary organization members with national interest and impact in philanthropy and voluntary action. It produces Giving and Volunteering in the U.S. and many other publications.
Please click for links to journals, books, and articles on measuring impact. Also useful and posted here is a brief description of the Volunteer Center Benchmarking Measure and Program Measure, a Points of Light Foundation's publication. More recently, Independent Sector published a report entitled: "Outcome Measurement in Nonprofit Organizations: Current Practices and Recommendations." Link to download the report's executive summary in .pdf format. To order the full report, click on publications. - The David and Lucile Packard Foundation's Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy Program
- This program aims at promoting strong management and sound governance that enables an organization to move steadily toward its goals, to adapt to change, and to innovate. One of the subcomponents of this program is related to enhancing the effectiveness of grantees through the promotion of continuous learning and improvement, clarity of vision, alignment of goals and activities with that vision, and outcome measurement.
- The Eisenhower Foundation
- The Eisenhower Foundation report "Lessons from the Street" details the results of its capacity building and outcomes efforts with several of its grantees over a ten-year period. The report presents some interesting insights into the challenges of capacity-building efforts of philanthropic organizations.
- The Irvine Foundation
- The Irvine Foundation publishes reports annually on a range of issues. The report How to Strengthen Youth Serving Nonprofits? Experiences of the John Irvine Foundation's Youth Development Initiative provides an account of the foundation's outcomes/capacity-building work with several Californa-based youth development organizations. The site also presents helpful definitions of commonly used terms like outcomes, goals, and objectives.
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