In other words, they have strong organizational cultures of learning. Building a strong culture of learning takes skill, effort, and time. While grantmakers and other nonprofits have worked hard in recent years to build their capacity to evaluate outcomes, less emphasis has been placed on building learning capacity. While many grantmakers recognize that the measurement of outcomes requires specialized expertise and dedicated resources, they don’t always acknowledge that the same is true for the work of learning from evaluation. Attached are a set of resources that were developed by Taylor Newberry Consulting to help grantmakers and nonprofits who are looking to develop relationships that are focused on learning. This work was supported by Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
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How RTI’s MERLA Community of Practice has convened experts from across the company for knowledge sharing and collaboration
This Question Bank offers users the ability to draw from a variety of questions that can help to inform and start a dialogue with grant applicants or recipients on their learning culture and goals
Results from a literature review performed by Wake Forest University's Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
This 18-question self-assessment tool is meant to help organizations to identify and assess the state of learning in their organization
In this think tank session ( 2725 ) from #2017Conference , facilitators Michael Arnold and Tina Cheplick used this worksheet to pose a scenario to participants that explored the challenges to learning from evaluation. This worksheet details the scenario and includes a framework for thinking about strategic learning capacity and potential barriers, which fall into two categories: barriers to having a growth mindset and barriers to accessing and using the right information
Challenging learning moments worksheet 11.3.17.pdf
These slides are from the "how to" presentation, "Inviting Clients into Our Tent: How to Prepare and Lead a Strategic Learning Debrief." They are from the presentation on Evaluation Learning Circles by Cohen Research & Evaluation, LLC, and the Comprehensive Health Education Foundation
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