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Evaluation Societies

Canadian Evaluation Society
www.evaluationcanada.ca
The Canadian Evaluation Society has a website with information on the mission, goals and principles of the organization, and guidelines for ethical conduct for evaluators. There is also information on upcoming conferences and contact information for local chapters of the organization.

Program Evaluation Resources

Basic Guide to Program Evaluation
www.mapnp.org/library/evaluatn/fnl_eval.htm
This document provides guidance toward planning and implementing an evaluation process for for-profit or non-profit programs.

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Evaluation Web Site
www.bja.evaluationwebsite.org
This evaluation web site is designed to provide State Administrative Agency staff, criminal justice planners, researchers and evaluators, as well as local practitioners with a variety of resources for evaluating criminal justice programs.

Centre for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California
www.caps.ucsf.edu/capsweb/index.html
The Centre for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at the University of California, San Francisco has information on the evaluation of HIV/AIDS prevention programs.

Council on Foundations
www.cof.org
The Council on Foundations, a nonprofit membership association of grant making foundations and corporations, has information on determining the impact of funding on the community and cost-effectiveness of activities. They also publish resources on the topic. Most parts of the site are accessible to members only.

CYFERNet
www.cyfernet.mes.umn.edu/eval.html
CYFERNet is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Initiative. This web page has links to sites of interest on evaluation and electronic evaluation resources.

Empowerment Evaluation Institute
www.stanford.edu/~davidf/institute.html
The Empowerment Evaluation Institute website has information on empowerment evaluation and provides references to publications on the topic.

Ericae.net - Clearinghouse for Assessment, Evaluation and Research Information
ericae.net
A clearinghouse for assessment, evaluation and research information, this site provides information concerning educational assessment, evaluation and research methodology as well as resources to encourage the responsible use of educational data.

Evaluation Cookbook - Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative
www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/ltdi/cookbook/info_pages.html
A practical guide to evaluation methods for lecturers.

Evaluation Exchange
hugse1.harvard.edu/~hfrp/eval/
The Evaluation Exchange: Emerging Strategies in Evaluating Child and Family Services is an on-line newsletter produced by the Harvard Family Research Project. This is a forum for exchanging ideas, lessons learned and practices in evaluating family support and community development programs. Copies of the Evaluation Exchange newsletter can be downloaded from the site.

Evaluation Center
www.wmich.edu/evalctr/index.html
The EVALUATION CENTER'S mission is to provide national and international leadership for advancing the theory and practice of program, personnel, and student/constituent evaluation, as applied primarily to education and human services. The Center's principal activities are research, development, dissemination, service, instruction, and leadership.

EVALTALK
This is an unmoderated listserv sponsored by the American Evaluation Association. Subscription requests are sent to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU

Grantmakers Evaluation Network
http://hogg1.lac.utexas.edu/Gen
The Grantmakers Evaluation Network (GEN) provides a list of books published on evaluation. The GEN newsletter, which focuses on evaluation issues relevant to the nonprofit sector, can be downloaded from this site.

Health Communication Unit, Centre for Health Promotion
www.utoronto.ca/chp/hcu/
The Health Communication Unit (THCU) at the Centre for Health Promotion at the University of Toronto has developed a manual (Evaluating Health Promotion Programs) that is downloadable from this site and accessible from the Workbooks and Publications page. A TCHU Newsletter Special Issue on evaluating health promotion is also downloadable from this page. There are also many useful links to evaluation websites.

Infinity Network
www.tmc.tulane.edu/infinity_project/evaluation.htm
The Tulane University monitors the Infinity Network and its programs. The evaluation collects data that are summarized in quarterly reports. The Network has developed evaluation matrices that are used to measure efficiency and efficacy of a program's organizational structure, inputs, outputs, impact and outcomes. The matrices are available on-line with information regarding residential substance abuse treatment programs for pregnant and post-partum women and their children in New Orleans.

InnoNet
www.inetwork.org
InnoNet 'Helping Nonprofits to Succeed' – This site is currently under construction and the on-line evaluation tool box will not be up and running until August 1999. The organization's mission is "to enable public and nonprofit organizations to better plan, execute and evaluate their structure, operations and services".

Justice Information Center, U.S. National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
www.ncjrs.org/homepage.htm
The NCJRS website houses short papers in the Research and Evaluation section on the evaluation of Boys and Girls Clubs in Public Housing, Drug Treatment in Local Corrections, and

Family Violence Training Programs National Network for Family Resiliency
www.nnfr.org/eval
The National Network for Family Resiliency, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is an interactive network which provides leadership for acquisition, development and analysis of resources that foster family resiliency. The Network has an Evaluation Work that hosts a webpage. The webpage has abstracts of evaluation tools and a bibliography of evaluation resources. From the webpage the Interactive Program Evaluation Development Site can be accessed. This is an on-line evaluation workbook which is a 10-step model geared towards parenting evaluation that allows the user to work through the evaluation process. The framework has general application.

Free Resources for Methods in Program Evaluation and Social Research
gsociology.icaap.org/methods
This page lists free resources for methods in evaluation and social research. The focus is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. Most of these links are to resources that can be read over the web or printed as pamphlets, etc. A few are for books that can be sent away for, for free (if you live in the US), as well as read over the web. The information may be used as handouts to the general public, clients or potential clients, students or anyone who wants some introduction to evaluation.

Ottawa Carleton Health Department
www.uotttawa.ca/academic/med/epid/intro.htm
This site has excerpts from a publication entitled A Blueprint for Public Health Management – A Program Evaluation Tool Kit. The on-line material provides information on the basics of evaluation and an overview of logic models. The information is applicable to a range of programs. The full publication can be ordered through the Ottawa Carleton Health Department and an order form can be printed from the site.

Program Evaluation and Measurement Resource - Michigan State University
www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~brick/dcc1pg.htm
This site for educating individuals on the basics of program evaluation and measurement was researched and designed to meet the needs of educators and programmers alike. A database demonstrating data collection instruments, several analysis reports, interesting links and program evaluation/measurement information was organized to contribute to making program measurement a more convenient activity.

Project STAR (Support and Training for Assessing Results)
www.projectstar.org
Project STAR, a Corporation for National & Community Service sponsored technical assistance provider in evaluation, is available to assist all National Service Programs with their evaluation endeavors. Click on your National Service program icon and access evaluation assistance now.

Sociometrics
www.socio.com
Sociometrics Corporation, a research and development firm based in California that specializes in social science research applications, has information on evaluation services, products, studies, and publications. There are many examples taken from the experiences of adolescent and teen pregnancy programs.

The Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits - Free Management Library
www.mapnp.org/library/evaluatn/evaluatn.htm
The Free Management Library houses a host of information relating to evaluation activities in organizations (e.g., organizational performance, self-assessments, outcomes evaluation). From this site the user can download evaluation resources and link to other sites. A Basic Guide to Program Evaluation is found on this site at: www.mapnp.org/library/evaluatn/fnl_eval.htm. The guide provides general information on program evaluation, how to plan an evaluation, major types of evaluation and pitfalls to avoid.

The Muttart Foundation
www.muttart.org/evals.htm
The Muttart Foundation sometimes commissions evaluations. The reports of these projects are available free of charge by writing, telephoning or e-mailing the Foundation. A listing of these reports is found on their website.

The Urban Institute
www.urban.org/crime/evalguide.htm
The Evaluation Guidebook – Projects Funded by S.T.O.P. Formula Grants under the Violence Against Women Act is available from the Urban Institute's website both on-line and in a downloadable PDF format. The guidebook is a helpful resource which describes evaluation processes using victim services and support systems examples to illustrate points.

UNICEF
www.unicef.org/reseval
The Research and Evaluation Division of UNICEF has information on research and evaluation reports that they have produced. A UNICEF Guide for Monitoring and Evaluation can be found at www.unicef.org/reseval/frames/mande1r.htm. This guide provides an overview of evaluation principles applied to UNICEF programs that will be of interest to nonprofits.

United Way of America, Outcome Measurement Resource Network
www.unitedway.org/outcomes
From this site organizations can order the United Way's Measuring Program Outcomes or other publications, find information on current projects and access on-line resources. The on-line resource library has information on outcome measurement, links to other internet sites, downloadable papers and articles on outcome measurement, and back issues of Measuring Impact of Unite Way Newsletters.

U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Evaluation Web Site
www.bja.evaluationwebsite.org
The BJA Evaluation Web Site is designed to provide information on evaluating criminal justice programs. It houses information on evaluation that is widely applicable. This site provides material on planning, designing and conducting an evaluation, a glossary of terms, a bibliography of evaluation material, links to reports on evaluation, and links to other evaluation-related sites.

U.S. Center for Disease Control, Evaluation Working Group
http://www.cdc.gov/eval/resources.htm
This site offers several links for further information about evaluation or assistance in conducting an evaluation project. Resources are divided into the following groups: ethics, principles, and standards; organizations, societies, foundations, associations; journals and online publications; step-by-step manuals ;logic model resources; planning and performance improvement tools ;reports and publications: general ;reports and publications: GPRA ; and, suggestions.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation
www.wkkf.org/Publications/evalhdbk/default.htm
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook is found at the Foundations' website. The handbook, which can be printed directly from this site, provides a good description of the evaluation process.