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The following links may be of interest to you. Click on a
link below to go to a site.
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| ACT
National Outcomes Network & Outcomes Toolkit Accelerating
Community Transformation (ACT) seeks to help increase the capacity
of community partnerships to achieve and demonstrate measurable
improvements in community and quality of life. This is their
Web site for planning, measuring and sharing community health
and quality of life improvement projects. |
| American
Evaluation Association International professional association
of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of
program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many
other forms of evaluation. |
| Annie
E. Casey Foundation
In
addition to the popular Kids Count resources, this site offers
some valuable evaluation-related resources, especially in their
Family to Family Initiative. Resources may be ordered or downloaded
for printing. |
| Child
Trends
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization
which studies children, youth, and families through research
and evaluation, data collection, and data analyses. Child Trends,
established in 1979, currently has a staff of 50 researchers,
analysts, and administrative and support personnel. A recent
publication is the Edna McConnell Clark Youth Development
Outcomes Compendium. |
| The
Community Tool Box This is the Web site created and
maintained by the University of Kansas Work Group on Health
Promotion and Community Development in Lawrence, KS, and AHEC/Community
Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts. The site has been on line
since 1995, and it continues to grow on a weekly basis. Currently,
the core of the Tool Box is the "how-to tools." |
| Edna
McConnell Clark Foundation The EMCF is a major grantmaking
foundation. Their Web site's Evaluation and Knowledge Development
section is very helpful in laying the foundation for understanding
the theory behind the Foundation's approach to evaluation, including
Evaluation Systems, Levels of Program Quality and Outcomes. |
| Empowerment
Evaluation Page Dedicated to the exploration and refinement
of collaborative, participatory, and empowerment approaches
to evaluation. |
| The
Evaluation Exchange Harvard Family Research Project's
newsletter, The Evaluation Exchange, addresses current issues
facing program evaluators of all levels, with articles written
by the most prominent evaluators in the field. The newsletter
goes out to its subscribers free of charge 3-4 times per year.
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| HFRP
After School Initiative Evaluation Database The Harvard
Family Research Project's Out-of-School-Time database of out-of-school
time evaluation profiles provides information, in an accessible
way, about evaluation work of both large and small out-of-school
time programs and initiatives, in order to support the development
of high quality evaluations and programs in the out-of-school
time field. |
| Targeting
Outcomes of Programs (TOP) Targeting Outcomes of Programs
(TOP) includes a seven-level hierarchy that integrates program
evaluation within the program development process. It has been
developed by Dr. Kay Rockwell of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
and Dr. Claude Bennett of the Cooperative State Research, Education,
and Extension Service, USDA. |
| United
Way Outcome Measurement Resource Network
The Resource Network's purpose is to provide United Way of America's
and other organizations' outcome measurement resources and learnings.
Includes descriptions of UWA outcome measurement resources,
pricing, and ordering information, selected outcome and performance
measurement initiatives of United Ways; health and human service
agencies, governmental and other nonprofit organizations and
excerpts from the agency manual, fulltext articles, and annotated
links to other internet resources. |
| W.
K. Kellogg Foundation Search
their Knowledgebase for valuable resources. Many are available
online, including their new Logic Model Development Guide and
the Evaluation Handbook. |
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