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This dissertation is an exploratory, mixed methods study using grounded perspective to examine how stakeholders (including consumers, administrators, and, practitioners) in social welfare organizations perceive effectiveness in the nonprofit social welfare sector. The study utilized the Concept Mapping research methodology to access and analyze data. A theoretical framework of nonprofit social welfare organizational effectiveness emerged from the data indicating that the five most significant factors identified by stakeholders as constituting effectiveness in the nonprofit social welfare sector in Kentucky were (a) client services, (b) organizational structure (c) workplace environment, (d) staff efficiency, and (e) organizational funding. Thirty-five statements emerged under these five categories highlighting the activities that are considered most important to an effective non-profit social welfare organization in Kentucky. The sub- categories culminated into a grant application and an evaluation tool for use by the philanthropic group to judge if an organization is effective and deserves to be funded.

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Here’s how funders are leveraging evaluation to improve nonprofit effectiveness Traditionally, funders expect evaluation to show that resources are being used wisely. But evaluation can be a much more powerful toolfor both funders and nonprofits. Forward-looking grantmakers and grantees are leveraging their evaluations, ensuring that the time and money spent ultimately improves effectiveness for everyone. This book shows how they’re doing it, including: How the “”evaluative learning”" approach furthers ongoing improvement via collaborative, stakeholder influenced evaluations; How to bridge the differences in what funders and nonprofits need from evaluation; How evaluation builds four critical capacitiesleadership, adaptive capacity, management, and technical capacity; Seven steps a funder can take to build the evaluative learning capacity in nonprofits; Thirteen specific evaluative learning strategies that funders can support. Worksheets and assessment tools will help funders 1) assess their readiness to implement evaluative learning; 2) develop a logic model; 3) uncover grantees’ current evaluation efforts and preparedness for evaluative learning; and 4) use resources wisely when selecting an evaluative learning support strategy. When the funding community supports evaluative learning, nonprofits and funders together can figure out how to strengthen programs, better allocate resources, and share successful models.

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