Nonprofit Evaluation and Music with Chari Smith

This week, Chari Smith joins me to talk about nonprofit evaluation, how to build a culture of evaluation, the relationship between music and evaluation, and the AEA conference.

Chari Smith wrote a book! Nonprofit Program Evaluation Made Simple: Get your Data. Show your Impact. Improve your Programs. Sign up for the mailing list to learn more about the book, including the launch date.

Resources & People Mentioned:

• In 4 All blog post on adapting to Covid-19
• Managing applied social research by Russ-eft and colleagues (2017)
• Enhancing the effectiveness of logic models by Jones et al. (2020)
• Northwest Housing Alternatives concept paper: Program Evaluation and Data Culture in Resident Services
• Graphic mentioned - NW Housing Alternatives: Housing Stability Status: This graphic was created as a result of the evaluation planning session with Resident Service Coordinator staff. We wanted to visually depict where their program activities fell on a spectrum of residents that are at a high risk of losing housing to a low risk of losing housing. This graphic was included in their program evaluation plan.
• Data into Dollars: The Intersection of Program Evaluation & Fundraising blog post
• Chari's presidential strand session with AEA president Aimee White on Tuesday, October 27
• New Directions for Evaluation: Organizational Capacity to Do and Use Evaluation
• Two people mentioned: Michael Quinn Patton and Stephanie Evergreen

Contact:

• Chari Smith: [email protected]
• EvaluLand: Website & Twitter (@EvaluLand)

Music by Matt Ingelson, http://www.mattingelsonmusic.com/