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The Bruner Foundation is pleased to make available a variety of resources and tools designed to assist non-profit service provider and funding organizations in their efforts to build organizational capacity in evaluation and in the use of evaluative thinking.

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Evaluative Thinking Bulletins

Building Evaluation Capacity

Participatory Evaluation Essentials - A PowerPoint presentation which can be used in conjunction with our written manual

Participatory Evaluation Essentials: A Guide for Non-Profit Organizations and their Evaluation PartnersNewly released in 2010, this manual provides a detailed curriculum for building participatory evaluation capacity.

Participatory Evaluation Essentials: A Guide for Funders and their Evaluation Partners - published in 2004, this manual provides a detailed curriculum for use with funders. Appendix to the guide

Evaluation Capacity and Evaluative Thinking in Organizations - a monograph describing what the Foundation learned during the last decade through the Rochester Effective Partnership (REP) and Evaluative Thinking in Organizations (ETHOS) initiatives published in March, 2006

Conducting an Evaluation Inventory- a grid, developed in 2004, to document evaluation activity in an organization

Using Excel to Analyze Data - developed in 2006, a quick tool for analyzing survey data.

 

Evaluative Thinking

Evaluation Capacity and Evaluative Thinking in Organizations - a monograph describing what the Foundation learned during the last decade through the Rochester Effective Partnership (REP) and Evaluative Thinking in Organizations (ETHOS) initiatives published in March, 2006

Assessing Evaluative Thinking - a series of tools developed in 2005 to assess the extent to which evaluative thinking Is present in various organizational capacity areas such as strategic planning, governance, human resources, marketing and communications