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Webinar Wednesdays (FREE!): Five Important Discussion Questions to Make Evaluation Useful

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07 Dec 2016
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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It’s not only about the “how”: Asking the right questions to get better evaluation results

Efforts to build evaluation capacity in the nonprofit sector often begin with the assumption that the problem is lack of skill, resources, or interest by nonprofits. However, based on our research we think the problem may have more to do with the fact that the nonprofit evaluation “system” is not well designed- i.e. the ways evaluation is funded, rewarded, disseminated and used at a societal level.

Nonprofit evaluation is most likely to be frustrating and under-used when it’s done for poorly articulated reasons, when relationships aren’t based on trust and there isn’t enough attention to alignment between methodologies, approaches, and intended uses.

Join this interactive webinar to explore our brand new guide to help you get it right. We’ll present some common evaluation scenarios and walk through how you can put this guide into action to get the most out of an evaluation. We’ll push your critical thinking about the purposes that evaluation work is serving and the reasons why it sometimes fails to deliver on its promise.

This is for nonprofits, funders, and evaluators to get tips on what questions to ask, when and where to ask them, and what challenges might come up along the way.

Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Time: 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Cost: FREE!

Presenters: Andrew Taylor, Co-founder, Taylor Newberry Consulting and ONN’s Resident Evaluation Expert & Ben Liadsky, ONN’s Evaluation Program Associate

During this one hour webinar, you will:

Learn more about ONN’s resource Learning Together: Five Important Discussion Questions to Make Evaluation Useful and how you can apply it to your evaluations. 
Participate in a discussion of common evaluation scenarios and how to work through them to make evaluation useful for your nonprofit’s mission.

About the presenters
Andrew Taylor is co-owner of Taylor Newberry Consulting, a Guelph-based firm that specializes in developing research and evaluation solutions for public sector organizations. He is also ONN's Resident Evaluation Expert. He has helped organizations across Canada develop impact strategies and measurement systems that are evidence based, manageable, and meaningful. He thinks evaluation is only useful if it answers questions that matter and enables people to act in new ways.

Ben Liadsky is ONN’s Evaluation Program Associate. He has more than six years of experience working in the nonprofit sector in a variety of capacities from project management to fundraising to communications. He believes it’s time to change the conversation around evaluation.