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Grants Development

Grants Development. PBS 136 – Grantsmanship October 3, 2008 Chapter 6. Today’s Agenda. Review Chapter 5: 6:00–6:15 Go over Chapter 6 (The Evaluation): 6:15–8:00 Break at 7:15-7:30 LAB: Construct your evaluation: 8:00-9:00. Future Presenters - Revised.

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Grants Development

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  1. Grants Development PBS 136 – Grantsmanship October 3, 2008 Chapter 6

  2. Today’s Agenda • Review Chapter 5: 6:00–6:15 • Go over Chapter 6 (The Evaluation): 6:15–8:00 • Break at 7:15-7:30 • LAB: Construct your evaluation: 8:00-9:00

  3. Future Presenters - Revised • November 3rd:April Haynes – Director, Martinsville Area Community Foundation. CANCELLED. • November 10th:Tiffany Haworth - Resource Development Director, United Way of Henry County & Martinsville. • December 1st: Michelle Jones - Associate Director, Office of Community Capacity Building, Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. • December 15th: Jeffrey Mansour - Senior Program Officer, The Harvest Foundation.

  4. Evaluations Purpose of Evaluations (measurement): • How well the program does (succeeds). • What the program does. Organizational Capacity building answers: • Did the outcomes occur? • Did the organization cause a change? • If not why, what, and how to modify? • Sustainable?

  5. Evaluations Evaluation plans are: • When possible designed by the funder and grantee. • Create objective data (quantitative). • Create subjective data (qualitative). • Ongoing. • Part of the project description and define scope and complexity. • Flexible. • Precise. • Loaded into grant monitoring reports.

  6. Evaluations Types of evaluations: • Product based: End result makes something. • Process based: Measure activities. • Either require: • Description of info/data collected. • How info/data was analyzed. • By whom? • Qualitative data: Interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, notes, surveys. • Quantitative data: Numerical and statistical.

  7. Evaluations Evaluations should be/contain: • Logical. • Linear. • Clearly defined qualitative and quantitative measures. • Defined successes (funder and grantor) • Defined evaluative mechanisms. • Formats used to report data. • Who will conduct the evaluation and why.

  8. Evaluations Who will conduct the evaluation??? Should always be the agency unless the funder requires an outside source. If they require an outside source, they should pay for it!!! Well crafted evaluations = Well run organizations.

  9. Evaluations Google search: • Grant Evaluation • Grant Evaluation Rubric

  10. Evaluations Instructor lead demonstration: www.shapingoutcomes.com We will jointly complete Module A of the training. Lab/homework: Modules B – E. By completing the training you will learn Outcome Based Planning and Evaluation (OBPE) as a skill set from grant writing, management, and evaluation.

  11. Evaluations Additional online resources: • Evaluation toolkit: http://www.wkkf.org/Default.aspx?tabid=90&CID=281&ItemID=2810002&NID=2820002&LanguageID=0 • Overview of proposal writing: http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/tutorials/shortcourse/index.html • Overview of online surveys: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/techsoup/ts_item.jhtml?id=230800026

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