DOI
10.9707/1944-5660.1456
Key Points
Evaluators play a critical role in supporting philanthropic learning, programming, and strategy, but evaluation and learning in philanthropy is often limited in ways that impede deeper resonance and impact.
Most philanthropic evaluation is focused on the needs of individual foundations, knowledge sharing with the broader field is limited, and foundations struggle to integrate evaluation and learning as a management tool. This article makes the case that evaluators and funders can do more to build the collective capacity of evaluators working in philanthropy in order to enhance their contributions to community change.
This article also examines the ways that evaluation in philanthropy is evolving, lays out root causes of its limitations, and looks at emerging tools, techniques, and lessons that showcase new ways evaluators and funders are working together to strengthen practice.
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Recommended Citation
Nolan, C., Long, M., & Perez, D. J. (2019). Evaluators as Conduits and Supports for Foundation Learning. The Foundation Review, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.9707/1944-5660.1456
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