The evaluation capacity building initiative helps Pew Fund grantees assess and strengthen their services’ impact on the populations they serve. Through group learning sessions and individualized coaching, the multiyear program expands Pew-supported organizations’ ability to monitor their ongoing progress, use data to inform their practices, and evaluate results to determine whether goals are being met and how to make improvements.

Curriculum

The curriculum—designed and taught by experts from ImpactED, based at the University of Pennsylvania; McClanahan Associates Inc.; and Grovider—is tailored to each grantee’s organizational needs. Specifically, participants have the opportunity to learn how to:

• Conduct evaluation and learning activities in a way that centers on community engagement and equity.
• Identify the relationship between a program’s activities and its desired results, also known as “theory of change.”
• Gather and analyze meaningful data, identify appropriate evaluation tools, and use more rigorous evaluation methods.
• Build an organizational culture that values evaluation and learning.
• Identify and implement data management systems that facilitate learning and track long-term outcomes.
• Develop in-house evaluation skills, fund evaluation activities, and align funder requirements.
• Contextualize findings and identify program adjustments with communities and other partners to deepen impact and create more equitable outcomes.

Pew Fund grantees will be notified of future opportunities to participate in this initiative.

For more information, please email us at pewfund@pewtrusts.org.