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Planning and EvaluationEffective strategic planning tracks an organization within the context of a changing environment in order to ensure its long-term growth and vitality. In each client engagement, Changing Our World assesses the environment in which the organization operates, analyzing competitors, projecting trends, and anticipating changes in the broader philanthropic landscape. This thorough assessment allows us to formulate unique long-term objectives that are in keeping with the client's mission, goals, and vision. We then put in place mechanisms to track the progress of the client in meeting its objectives. Increasingly, philanthropy is demanding that nonprofits produce concrete measures of their accomplishments in exchange for continued support. The capacity to produce evidence of program effect is often under-developed in the nonprofit sector, partly because the causal links between expenditures and impacts is so complex. Forward-looking nonprofits must develop metrics of collecting data and assessing program effectiveness in anticipation of philanthropic expectations. The proactive commitment by nonprofits to developing and implementing such metrics provides both the internal management tools needed for constant self-evaluation and program engineering and the evidence to philanthropic supporters that evaluation is taken seriously by the nonprofit. Changing Our World assists its clients in developing quantitative assessment metrics, designing data collection systems that are sized to organizational capacities, and developing reporting formats to ensure that evidence is clearly conveyed to both management and funders. Services:
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