Publications
Anyone tasked with the responsibility for making a difference in the lives of others needs a way to evaluate impact. This book provides simple and elegant models and methods for designing evaluation. It presents proven techniques for gathering data, analyzing data, rendering findings, and leading people and organizations through evaluation. This step-by-step guide will help leaders design and develop an effective evaluation strategy.
Getting to What Matters: How to Design and Develop Evaluation - by Steve Patty
Every person and organization has a growing edge, a challenge of development or opportunity for progress. If we can help people move forward at that growing edge, we will see a brilliant realization of human and organizational potential. It’s not simple or easy to achieve lasting change in people, though. We will need to shape their actions on the surface. Even more, we will need to engage the deeper parts of their ideology—their values, aims, presence, beliefs, and more. We will need to move more than just the tip of the iceberg in our human systems. Moving Icebergs will show us how.
Moving Icebergs: Leading People to Lasting Change - by Steve Patty
PROJECT IMPACT REPORTS
Teams from nine nonprofits from Calgary, Alberta came together in 2019 to define their impact, evaluate their impact and use what they discover through evaluation to expand and deepen their impact. These reports represent some of their most compelling insights.
Calgary
(2019)
Teams from nine AmeriCorps programs from across Washington State came together in 2019 to define their impact, evaluate their impact and use what they discover through evaluation to expand and deepen their impact. These reports represent some of their most compelling insights.
Washington AmeriCorps
(2019)
The United Way's Healthy Aging stream brought together 10 community-based service providers from across British Columbia between October 2018 and June 2019 to define their impact, evaluate their impact, and use that they discovered to expand and deepen their program's impact with older adults. All the senior service providers are committed to ensuring older British Columbians remain active, connected, and engaged in their communities. These reports present the most compelling insights from their evaluations.
Healthy Aging by United Way
(2018)
Teams from parent leadership initiatives from across the country came together in 2018 to define their impact, evaluate their impact and use what they discovered through evaluation to expand and deepen their impact. These reports represent some of their most compelling insights and share important lessons for any social justice organizations.
Parent Leadership Evaluation Network
(2018)
Teams from 15 CaliforniaVolunteers AmeriCorps programs came together in 2017 to evaluate their impact. These reports represent some of their most compelling findings.
California AmeriCorps
(2017)
Teams from eight nonprofits in southwest Washington came together during the first half of 2016 to define their impact, evaluate their impact, and use what they discovered through evaluation to expand and deepen their impact. These reports represent some of their most compelling insights.
Community Foundation Southwest Washington (2016)
Teams from Neighborhood Prosperity Network districts in Portland, Oregon came together during 2018 to define their impact, evaluate their impact and use what they discover through evaluation to expand and deepen their impact. These reports represent some of their most compelling insights.
Neighborhood Prosperity Network
(2019)
Program teams from California Volunteers came together during 2018 to define their impact, evaluate their impact, and use what they discover through evaluation to expand and deepen their impact. These reports represent some of their most compelling insights.
California AmeriCorps
(2018)
Teams from Nevada Volunteers gathered together during 2018 to define their impact, evaluate their impact, use the discoveries from evaluation to prove and improve their impact. These reports represent some of their most compelling insights.
Nevada AmeriCorps
(2018)
Teams from 6 nonprofits in the Portland, Oregon metro area came together during 2018-2019 to define their impact, evaluate their impact and use what they discover through evaluation to expand and deepen their impact. These reports represent some of their most compelling insights.
Portland
(2018)
Teams of leaders from a group of nonprofits in the area of Edmonton gathered every month during the first half of 2017 to design and deploy evaluations of their impact. Through this process, known as Project Impact, each team clarified their intended impact, developed both quantitative and qualitative means to gather data, and shaped program responses based on their evaluation findings. Their discoveries are fresh and meaningful. This is a collection of their most compelling insights.
Edmonton Area
(2017)
In January of 2016, the Gumpert Foundation invited teams from eleven nonprofits in the San Diego area to develop evaluations that would prove and improve their impact. Over the course of eight months, these teams designed evaluation strategies, collected data, analyzed data, and discovered findings to inform future program adjustments and innovations. The insights from these evaluations are fresh and compelling. This is a compendium of their self-studies.
The Gumpert Foundation
(2016)
Teams from seven STEM Hubs across the state of Oregon came together in 2019 to define their impact, evaluate their impact, and use what they discover through evaluation to expand and deepen their impact. These reports represent some of their most compelling insights.
STEM Hubs of Oregon
(2019)
During 2018, the Gumpert Foundation invited teams from nonprofits in California to develop evaluations that would prove and improve their impact. Over the course of eight months, these teams designed evaluation strategies, collected data, analyzed data, and discovered findings to inform future program adjustments and innovations. The insights from these evaluations are fresh and compelling. This is a compendium of their self-studies.
The Gumpert Foundation
(2018)
Teams from 10 regional substance abuse prevention coalitions from across Nevada came together during 2018 to define their impact, evaluate their impact and use what they discover through evaluation to expand and deepen their impact. These reports represent some of their most compelling insights.
Nevada Statewide Coalition Partnership (2018)
During the end of 2016 and beginning of 2017, teams of leaders from a group of nonprofits in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia gathered every month to design and deploy evaluations of their impact. Through this process, known as Project Impact, each team clarified their intended impact, developed both quantitative and qualitative means to gather data, and shaped program responses based on their evaluation findings. Their discoveries are fresh and meaningful. This is a collection of their most compelling insights.
British Columbia
(2017)
In 2017, teams of leaders from the AmeriCorps organizations of UServeUtah gathered to design and implement evaluations of their impact. Through this process, knows as Project Impact, each team clarified their intended impact, developed both quantitative and qualitative means to gather data, and shaped program responses based on their evaluation findings. Their discoveries are fresh and meaningful. This is a collection of their evaluation insights.
Utah AmeriCorps
(2017)
During the end of 2015 and beginning of 2016, teams of leaders from a group of nonprofits in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia gathered every month to design and deploy evaluations of their impact. Through this process called Project Impact, each team clarified their intended impact, developed both quantitative and qualitative means to gather data, and shaped program responses based on their evaluation findings. Their discoveries are fresh and meaningful. This is a compendium of their self-studies.
British Columbia; United Way of Lower Mainland (2015)