Below are some links we've found helpful about evaluation. If you have suggestions on resources that might benefit others, please let us know.
Information, worksheets, and instructions for planning, developing, and implementing evaluation activities for applications for direct services funding.
Developed by the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF), this guide explains program evaluation - what it is, how to understand it, and how to do it - from a program manager's perspective.
This document provides guidance toward planning and implementing an evaluation process for for-profit or nonprofit programs. Link to other information including "Designing Your Program Evaluation Plans" online.
Provides guidance toward basic planning and implementation of an outcomes-based evaluation process, particularly to small nonprofits with very limited resources
A comprehensive guide to decisions involved in the evaluation process.
For early childhood, a great site which gives an interactive demonstration of applied evaluation logic models.
Assistance with identifying objectives, designing evaluation plans, data collection, data analysis and reporting.
Provides an overview of four steps in evaluation: framing the evaluation, defining goals, and objectives, finding evidence, making sense of the evidence.
Resources about outcome measurement
This manual provides readers with a compendium of ideas and research to use when evaluating collaboratives and collaborative programs.
TOP is based on a hierarchy that integrates program evaluation within the program development process.
Links to evaluation and other resources for nonprofit organizations.