Posts Tagged 'evaluation'
The importance of charity evaluations
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
I am out of the country right now on a contract with a nonprofit to evaluate their operations and provide practical feedback. Thus it seemed appropriate to repost this article on the importance of charities evaluating their work.
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Will we repeat the mistakes of the last disaster?
Monday, February 8th, 2010
This is an updated and edited version of a previous post
Reading ALNAP’s Responding to earthquakes 2008: learning from earthquake relief and recovery operations reminded me of a common problem in the aid world – conducting evaluations and…
“Philanthropy is important and serious work. It does require time and thought.”
Monday, December 7th, 2009
Laura Freschi from AidWatch sent me a great article over the weekend, Why Measure: Nonprofits use metrics to show that they Are efficient. But what if donors don’t care? from Stanford Social Innovation. This report discusses…
Step 2: Get to know industry standards/best practices
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Step 2 in the series How to make a difference
Good aid takes more than just good intentions, it also takes an understanding of good aid practices. Without this donors or aid workers may invest time and money…
Bad Donor Advice Perpetuates Bad Aid Practices
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
The following is a copy of the comment I posted in response to the Wall Street Journal’s article Charities: Tough Times Call for Smarter Giving.
While proposing to provide information on smarter giving, your article…
