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Using Data to Strengthen Out-of-School Time Programs

Using Data to Strengthen Out-of-School Time Programs

Just released! A new book, Measure, Use, Improve! Data Use in Out-of-School Time, provides practical insights about how to use data to improve practice in youth-serving organizations.

Evaluation, Effectiveness

Transforming Evaluation Practice Together

Transforming Evaluation Practice Together

New resources, co-designed by funders and evaluators, take on urgent issues facing the field of philanthropic evaluation and offer actionable solutions for improving practice.

Evaluation, Effectiveness

Strategy and Evaluation: The Twin Engines of Effective Philanthropy

Strategy and Evaluation: The Twin Engines of Effective Philanthropy

Barbara Kibbe writes about how the language, tools, and approaches of philanthropy have evolved across four decades, and envisions the future of practice.

Evaluation, Effectiveness

Toward Equity: Evaluation is Not Neutral

Toward Equity: Evaluation is Not Neutral

The Foundation supports the Equitable Evaluation Initiative, a field-wide effort to advance equity through evaluation.

Evaluation, Effectiveness

Re-imagining Measurement in Philanthropy

Re-imagining Measurement in Philanthropy

A new study from the Monitor Institute by Deloitte explores possibilities for the future of monitoring, evaluation, and learning in philanthropy.

Evaluation, Effectiveness

Environmental Education Better Results Toolkit

Environmental Education Better Results Toolkit

The Foundation partnered with Learning for Action to develop tools and techniques for data-driven program improvement.