“Small organizations only have the resources to do what they HAVE to do.”

“When you don’t have the time and resources, it’s the evaluation piece that gets cut.”

Nonprofits have told us that they don’t have the financial and human resources to do evaluation to the extent that they want to. Yet, we all recognize that evaluation is a powerful tool that helps to maintain the important programming or programs provided by Ontario’s non-profits. This clinic discusses how we can make better use of our current evaluation practices and how to maximize our resources to get the most out of our evaluation efforts.

Failure doesn’t define you. It makes you stronger. The same is true within your organization. Failure is a learning tool to help guide you, making your programs, projects and services stronger and better than before.

There’s no longer a need to fear saying, “Things didn’t work out as we had planned.” Join us to learn how to identify when things aren’t going well while your initiatives are in progress. Together we’ll explore the positive side of failure and how to incorporate failure in to an evaluation report.

Is the world of external evaluation a mystery to you? You might think that an external evaluator is a not a good fit for your small non-profit organization. You’d be surprised to find out the innovative ways that external evaluators are enhancing the good work that other small non-profits do!
This clinic explores the many ways that external evaluators are working with non-profit organizations. The clinic helps to develop an understanding of when it’s appropriate to use an external evaluator and what approaches work best to get the most benefits from the support that an external evaluator can offer.

How Will You Measure Your Impact?
Funders require you to include your framework for evaluation when you apply for the funding. The challenge becomes taking your ideas and piecing them into measurable segments. How do you know what the impact will be when you haven’t done the activity yet?
This clinic discusses how to address evaluation in a funding proposal and how to determine the budgeting needs for those evaluation activities.

The fourth webinar in the series presented by Community Literacy of Ontario and Literacy Link South Central for the project Culture of Evaluation. The webinar discusses how evaluation is playing a major role in funding. This online clinic explores the changing evaluation needs of funders, with discussion of evaluation in the past, present and in the future. Guest speakers, from the funding profession, offer a glimpse into their world and their realities.

The third webinar in a series presented by Community Literacy of Ontario and Literacy Link South Central for the project Culture of Evaluation. The webinar discusses planning for evaluation fitness within non-profit organizations and provides numerous resource suggestions for developing evaluation. Guest speakers include Sara-lynn Hodgkin, from The Natural Step, and Tamara Kaattari from Literacy Link South Central.

In the summer of 2015, Ontario’s non-profits were asked about their evaluation practices and challenges. Evaluation of programs and services is in greater demand by funders. Proving a program’s value to community members is also increasing in importance. Small non-profits are feeling the pressure and often feel alone ins their evaluation struggles.

This webinar discusses evaluation practices that are currently happening and some of the innovative ways that organizations are meeting their evaluation challenges. Community Literacy of Ontario and Literacy Link South Central invite you to listen to the recorded webinar to hear what they said.

•  ways to manage and explore what a “Culture of Evaluation” might look like within your team