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With nearly $46 billion in philanthropy committed last year to advancing social progress and improving lives around the globe, organizational learning and evaluation are now more important than ever before. FSG helps clients by developing strategic evaluation resources to generate meaningful insights, and to make more effective decisions about the use of philanthropic capital.

CATALYST FOR CHANGE
When evaluation programs are designed and implemented to be dynamic, collaborative, and pragmatic, an organization’s capacity for making and acting on strategic decisions is dramatically improved. FSG’s Strategic Learning and Evaluation Center, with support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, offers field-building and client services including tools, training, and research to introduce and support innovative evaluation practices.  We engage our clients in:

EXPERTISE
FSG's Strategic Learning and Evaluation Center is led by
Hallie Preskill and a team of experienced FSG consultants who provide strategic learning and evaluation services over a wide range of topic areas, including the arts, health system reform, sustainable agriculture, youth and education, and more.


 

Representative Clients

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
In-depth evaluation of US high school district reform

David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Detailed annual evaluation plan

Moving the World Partnership
Multi-year evaluation of a unique partnership between Dutch TNT & UN World Food Program

Management Sciences for Health
Development of organization-wide, sustainable planning system

Ideas & Action

Advancing Evaluation Newsletter
Gene Cochrane on evaluation as a cultural norm

See all Evaluation Newsletters

Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement
Innovations in performance & impact measurement
WATCH webcast here
See SLIDE presentation here
View Q&A on our wiki here

Engaging Stakeholders in Evaluation
Guide for involving stakeholders in developing evaluation questions

Trustee Evaluation Toolkit
New ideas and tools for more effective evaluation

Books by Hallie Preskill
on evaluation:

Building Evaluation Capacity
More than 70 activities for learning about evaluation

Appreciative Inquiry
How to use Appreciative Inquiry for evaluation purposes

Evaluation in Organizations
Designing and implementing useful evaluations

Evaluative Inquiry for Learning
in Organizations

Positioning evaluation as a catalyst for organizational learning

Contact Us

To learn more about FSG’s Strategic Learning and Evaluation Center and to find out how we can help your organization with strategic evaluation, please contact Hallie Preskill, 206.625.6745 ext. 307.

 

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