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Trust, Impact, and Fundraising for Nonprofits
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Trust, Impact, and Fundraising for Nonprofits

by Kenneth Phillips
March 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
272 pages
10h 17m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 11 Problems with monitoring and evaluation – Resistance and donor mandates

DOI: 10.4324/9781003335207-14

Overcoming resistance to monitoring and evaluation

The best organizations routinely plan, implement, evaluate, and learn from evaluation. That is certainly the reason they became the best organizations – and the biggest. Others fail to evaluate and fail to learn. Why? Reasons given range from “We already know what to do” to “We don’t have funding for it.” Those who don’t conduct ongoing, honest evaluations will pay a serious penalty – for themselves, their beneficiaries, and their donors. Almost without question, the nonprofit will stagnate and eventually be in crisis.

I had my own eye-opening experience with failure to closely ...

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