The Insight Library answers one question at a time. These guides take a whole decision from start to finish.
Why turnover, burnout, low morale, and failed training are worth treating as one question about your people, and how to find out what is producing them before choosing a fix.
Turnover is an outcome. How to find where it is happening and for whom, learn what keeps good people, act on it, and check whether the change helped.
The grant evaluation lifecycle, stage by stage: designing the plan with the proposal, starting after the award, findings during the grant, hard results, and the final report.
What reviewers look for in a proposal's evaluation section, the problems that get plans flagged, and how to plan the budget and the evaluator's role.
Whether you need an external evaluator, how to find and compare one, what the cost depends on, and what the working relationship should be like.
How to use your evaluation strategically from the start: align it with your goals, avoid the common gaps, engage interest holders, and put the findings to work.
How evidence, context, and participants' experiences combine into an account a funder, board, leadership team, or community can trust and act on.
What a nonprofit team should build in-house, what to rely on an evaluator for, and how adults learn to use their own data in ways that last.
How to design a conversation that takes a team or a partnership from different views to shared priorities, named responsibility, and next steps.
How a funder can understand what its portfolio is accomplishing without exhausting the organizations in it: shared measures, sponsored help, and a clear line between support and monitoring.
Employers and education programs are each solving half of the same workforce problem. What each needs from the other, and how to tell whether a partnership is working.
Why the mentor, more than the placement, decides whether an internship or apprenticeship works, and how employers and education programs can prepare, support, and check on the mentoring layer.