The Dark Side of Outcome Evaluation
Grantmakers in the Arts
Doug Easterling
Originally published in the winter of 2001 for the Grantmaker's Evaluation Network, this article discusses the importance of maintaining a clear sense of the practical limitations that arise when outcome evaluation is applied to the nonprofit sector.
http://www.giarts.org/library_additional/library_additional_show.htm?doc_id=494634
a nonprofit group asks:
"We would like to conduct a social impact study of our members that illustrate the programmatic impact nonprofits have on the community. We have been able to find reports for the economic impact of nonprofits, but not a compilation of their social impact, their program benchmarks, as it were. Do you know of any reports or organizations that are doing this kind of work that we could link with or use their survey work?"
Indeed, we have extensive information here:
Social Impact of Nonprofits
Philanthropy and Social Impact
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