Evaluate. And Disseminate.
Demonstrating good work is how nonprofits gain support. Helping our communities understand how our good work makes long-term change over time is the next step. Carolyn Fiennes suggests that most nonprofits ought to be gathering information on their performance in her new post published by Standford Social Innovation Review. Fiennes goes on to suggest that evaluation of the idea behind their work (rather than simply monitoring outputs) is often best done by outside…