Category: Monitoring
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Maximizing Insights: Harnessing the Power of Data Collection Systems for Informed Decision-Making
Some of us, like me, love data. We are the quiet ones in the corner, with our tea on a coaster, running numbers all day, and emerge periodically to share our exciting findings, only to crawl back into our dark corners because no one seems to get as excited about data as we do. Data…
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The Operational Evaluation: Expanding Our Definitions of Non-Profit Project Evaluations
Non-Profit project evaluations always seemed to me to be a little like a science fair project. You identify your theory of change or hypothesis, and some variables that you are hoping to impact. You reference some past research. You then identify some biases, discuss your methodology, collect your data, write a report and draw some…
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The Key Metrics To Should Use for Evaluating Social Enterprises
So you have to evaluate a social enterprise? In many ways these are the same as other projects, but they do have some unqiue considerations that you ought to consider. I remember the first time that I was working with a social enterprise as an evaluator and I wanted to measure the revenue generated–the executive…