Building Sustainability, Increasing Impact: An R&D Approach to Evaluation

Grantmakers Forum of New York

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Philanthropy Forum

Building Sustainability, Increasing Impact:
An R&D approach to evaluation

May 15, 2012, 1:00-4:00pm

M&T Ballroom, Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave, Rochester 14607

Traditional evaluation—assessing services after the fact—doesn't always help those who design and implement the programs that assist community residents. A Research and Development (R&D) approach to evaluation helps leaders rethink and revamp programs to continually improve the delivery and direct benefits of services to the people who need them. By engaging in learning via R&D practices, nonprofit leaders

·  gain a more realistic means for assessing the cost of success,

·  grow services to reach more who need them,

·  demonstrate to funders where successes really occurred and where the impact of their grant dollars can be expanded.

And nonprofit organizations whose leaders engage in R&D behaviors are nearly twice as likely to be sustainable and grow as those who don’t.

Presenter:

Peter York is Senior Partner and Director of Research, TCC Group, a consulting  firm with clients in the nonprofit, public, and private sector. He is an acknowledged expert in designing learning systems for organizations and collaboratives. York is an authority in the field of capacity building, including studying, designing, implementing, and evaluating the impact of investments made in nonprofit organizational capacity building, community building, and policy/advocacy initiatives. York earned a BA from Purdue University, a Master's Degree in Social Service Administration, and "all but dissertation" in his Ph.D. work at Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.

Open to all nonprofit organizations and the public. Parking Available.  Fee: $40 first registration, $25 each additional registration from same organization.

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