Special Topics
Many tools and resources are available from The Colorado Trust and others to help improve the practice of evaluation, including:
Advocacy Evaluation
Innovation Network has compiled some 100 reports, white papers, websites and tools for advocacy evaluation from a variety of sources.
Collaboration Survey
As part of an independent evaluation of The Trust’s Partnerships for Health initiative, TriWest Group developed and tested a collaboration survey instrument to measure the quality and strength of collaborative partnerships.
Cultural Competency in Evaluation
Evaluations are significantly influenced by the cultures of participants, as well as the evaluator. The Importance of Culture in Evaluation: A Practical Guide for Evaluators provides insights to help evaluators better understand the influence of different cultures, assess their own work and how they work with others, with the goal of creating more useful evaluations for all stakeholders.
Introduction to Evaluation
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Evaluation Handbook provides a blueprint from which to design, prepare and conduct an evaluation, as well as a framework for how to use and communicate findings.
Organizational Capacity Assessment
This survey and discussion tool qualitatively and quantitatively measures 11 dimensions of organizational capacity, including governance, management, external relations, human and financial resources, service delivery, evaluation and organizational learning. The tool is designed to be used in a facilitated workshop in which representatives from all levels of an organization collectively score the capacity dimensions. The evaluation of The Colorado Trust’s Healthy Aging initiative is using this tool to determine changes in grantees’ organizational capacity during the multi-year effort.
