Increasingly, foundations are finding that participation in public decision making is often a critical component in reaching the impact demanded by mission-related goals. For those weighing precisely what role foundations should play, the mix of real-life examples, practical advice, and inspiration in this book are invaluable.

This book is for any funder who wants to encourage, enable, and be a real part of community problem solving. It helps foundations, community funds, government agencies, and other grantmakers uncover a community's highest aspiration for itself, and support and sustain strategic efforts to get to workable solutions.

A Funder's Guide to Evaluation: Leveraging Evaluation to Improve Nonprofit Effectiveness shifts away from using evaluation to prove something to someone else, and toward improving what nonprofits do so they can achieve their mission and share how they succeeded with others.

Funders, grantees, and consultants will understand how organizational assessment can be used to 1) Build the capacity of nonprofits, 2) Enhance grantmaking, 3) Impact organizational systems, 4) Strengthen the nonprofit sector, and 5) Measure foundation effectiveness. The guide presents four grantee assessment tools and two tools for assessing foundation performance.

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Includes:
• The Accidental Techie
• Benchmarking for Nonprofits
• Best of the Board Cafe
• Bookkeeping Basics
• Collaboration Handbook
• Collaboration What Makes it Work
• Community Building: What Makes it Work
• The Community Economic Development Handbook
• The Community Leadership Handbook
• Community Visions Community Solutions
• Conducting Community Forums
• Conducting Successful Focus Groups
• Consulting With Nonprofits
• Coping With Cutbacks
• Crafting Effective Mission and Vision Statements
• The Creative Community Builder's Handbook
• Developing Effective Teams
• Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives
• Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations
• Forming Alliances
• A Funder's Guide to Evaluation
• A Funder's Guide to Organizational Assessment
• Generations: The Challenge of Lifetime for Your Nonprofit
• Information Gold Mine
• Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook
• The Manager's Guide to Program Evaluation
• Marketing Workbook Volume I
• Marketing Workbook Volume II
• Message Matters
• New Americans, New Promise
• Nimble Collaboration
• The Nonprofit Board Member's Guide to Lobbying and Advocacy
• The Nonprofit Career Guide
• The Nonprofit Mergers Workbook Part I
• The Nonprofit Mergers Workbook Part II
• Nonprofit Stewardship
• The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution
• Power In Policy
• Resolving Conflict in Nonprofit Organizations
• Seven Turning Points
• Strategic Planning Workbook
• Strengthening Nonprofit Performance
• Venture Forth