Straight answers to the questions leaders bring us about their people, programs, and organizations, written by Grantibly's founders based on our experience as evaluators, researchers, and consultants.
For any organization that employs people: why good employees leave, what keeps them, what helps people grow and thrive at work, and what to know before a big workforce decision.
Get the Insights →For anyone holding or writing a grant: the evaluation section of the proposal, running the evaluation across the award, ethics and IRB, and what to do when findings are hard.
Get the Insights →For anyone deciding whether to bring in an evaluator: outside help or in-house, how to find and vet one, what evaluation costs, and what working together is really like.
Get the Insights →For leaders who have data and a story to tell: making sense of what you already have, turning it into reports people read, and communicating results to boards, funders, and communities.
Get the Insights →For teams that want to own their data: helping staff get comfortable with it, evaluating your own program, and training that people actually use.
Get the Insights →For leaders whose work runs across teams, partners, grantees, or sites: facilitated planning that ends in action, aligning people who see the problem differently, and learning across a portfolio without burdening anyone.
Get the Insights →For employers and educators building the next generation of workers together: talent pipelines with schools and colleges, apprenticeships and work-based learning, credentials, and helping students find and stay on a path.
Get the Insights →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.
Read the guide →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.
Read the guide →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.
Read the guide →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.
Read the guide →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.
Read the guide →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.
Read the guide →How evidence, context, and participants' experiences combine into an account a funder, board, leadership team, or community can trust and act on.
Read the guide →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.
Read the guide →How to design a conversation that takes a team or a partnership from different views to shared priorities, named responsibility, and next steps.
Read the guide →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.
Read the guide →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.
Read the guide →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.
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