October 16, 2011
Showing Results Matters, but Charities Should Let Evaluation Evolve
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” the cosmologist Carl Sagan famously wrote.
But what if the claim isn’t, say, that there’s life on Mars but that your program is getting results for the people it is supposed to serve? What level of evidence do you need to show?
As government budget cuts and the bad economy intensify competition for money, it is increasingly important that nonprofits demonstrate results to the donors they hope will
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