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Logic Models & Theories of Change represented by a strategic chess piece placed on top of interlocking puzzle pieces.

Logic Models and Theories of Change: What is the Difference and How Do They Help?

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The Roadmap to Success with Planning and Evaluation Tools For nonprofit organizations, achieving measurable impact requires more than good intentions. In other words, it demands a clear, actionable roadmap that connects the organization’s mission to tangible outcomes. Logic models and theories of change (ToC) are two powerful tools that provide this clarity. These frameworks define […]

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Crafting and Implementing Effective Evaluation Plans

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Transforming Goals Into Action For nonprofits, creating a strong evaluation plan is essential for measuring success, improving services, and securing funding. In this post, we’ll walk through how to build a nonprofit evaluation plan, including both process and outcome evaluations, using real-world examples tailored to nonprofit operations. Process Evaluation Plans: Monitoring Success in Real-Time Process

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How to build a strong research & evaluation foundation for 2025

Building a Strong Research & Evaluation Foundation: 2025 Blog Series

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Effective leadership hinges on the ability to adapt and make informed decisions. More importantly, research and evaluation are at the forefront of this process, providing essential insights that drive strategic decisions and success. This year, REC blogs will focus on how to support your organization with research and evaluation. Additionally, we will highlight how leaders

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Strategically Navigating Your Organizations pivot

Using Logic Models to Navigate and Pivot

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Strategically Navigating Your Organizations Pivot Is your organization willing to make long-term changes to your strategy and plan ahead? Could you need to redefine what success looks like to your organization and how this impact is measured? Is it time to update or create your program’s logic model? COVID-19 and the Need to Pivot

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6 Evaluation Solutions

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In Part One of this blog series we discussed six key challenges that can arise when conducting evaluations in the research world. Evaluation work is tough; mistakes can be made, big complications can arise and the challenges can feel overwhelming. Here we discuss solutions to the evaluation challenges that we highlighted in Part One, which

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Program Evaluation: Nonprofits’ Needs Versus Donor’s Requests, Part 2

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As discussed in Part 1, there are often differences in the ways that donors view program evaluation when compared to how nonprofits wish to use evaluation (Zinn, 2017). Donors view evaluation as an accountability measure and prefer evaluations that are rigorous, conducted by third-party experts, and focus on long-term outcomes (York, 2005). However, nonprofits prefer

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