Philanthropists have an obligation to learn. The best way to make smarter philanthropic investments over time—and get better results from those investments—is to generate good information about what’s working to address the problems that grantmakers aim to solve, what’s not working, and why. Evaluation is key in this process.
Evaluation can be a daunting topic for any grantmaker. Not only can it conjure up memories of being graded or scored, it can remind some grantmakers of huge expenditures that resulted in nothing more than a hefty door stopper.
Evaluation doesn’t have to be that way.
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