Good Measures: New Approaches to Evaluation
Conference Resources
Below you will find presentations, articles and resources from Good Measures: New Approaches to Evaluation, held May 22, 2008 and sponsored by FSG Social Impact Advisors and Stanford Social Innovation Review.
>>Click to hear Carol Larson’s talk on the foundation ceo perspective
>>Click to hear Mark Kramer’s talk on moving from insight to action
>>Click to hear a panel on ways funders and grantees can work together
Session 1: Moving from Insight to Action
Mark Kramer, managing director, FSG Social Impact Advisors
Report (download PDF): Mark Kramer, Rebecca Graves, Jason Hirschhorn, and Leigh Fiske. “From Insight to Action: New Directions in Foundation Evaluation.” Funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, April 2007
Session 2: Evaluation: New Ways of Working Together
Moderator: Kriss Deiglmeier, executive director, Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Panelists: Jami Bodonyi, research manager, University of Washington School of Social Work, evaluator for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Sound Families Initiative (download PDF); Esther Kim, portfolio manager, REDF (download PDF); Sandy Lowe, director of community services, Family Services (download PDF); J.B. Schramm, founder, College Summit
(download PDF)
Session 3: Assessing Performance and Refining Strategy: The Foundation CEO Perspective
Carol Larson, president and CEO, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Recommended reading:
- “Foundations and Evaluation: Contexts and Practices for Effective Philanthropy.” Marc T. Braverman (editor), Norman A. Constantine (Editor), Jana Kay Slater (Editor), August 2004.
- Andrews, Owen, Alyse D’Amico, and Judy Huang. “Higher Impact: Improving Foundation Performance, Insights from a Gathering of Foundation CEOs, Trustees, and Senior Executives.” The Center for Effective Philanthropy, 2005.
- Bolduc, Kevin, Phil Buchanan, and Ellie Buteau. “Luck of The Draw: A Foundation’s Effectiveness Rests on the Backs of Its Program Officers.” Stanford Social Innovation Review, 5(2), Spring 2007. (download PDF)
- DeVita, M. Christine. “How Are We Doing? One Foundation’s Efforts to Gauge Its Effectiveness.” The Wallace Foundation, April 2005. Fleishman, Joel L., The Foundation: A Great American Secret. New York: Public Affairs, 2007.
- Hamilton, Ralph, Prudence Brown, Robert J. Chaskin, Leila Feister, Harold Richman, Arron Sojourner, and Josh Weber. Learning For Community Change: Core Components of Foundations that Learn. Chapin Hall, 2006.
- Woodwell, William. “Evaluation as a Pathway to Learning: A Report by the Work of The Evaluation Roundtable.” Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, 2005.
Session 4: Evaluation for Learning: Creating Cultures of Inquiry
Moderator: Alana Conner, senior editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review (download PDF)
Panelists: Heather Davidson, education specialist, Department of Graduate Medical Education, Stanford University Medical Center (download PDF); Robert Sutton, professor of management science and engineering, Stanford School of Engineering (download PDF)
Session 5: Un-selling Meth: Using Consumer Marketing Techniques to Fight Meth Abuse
Thomas M. Siebel, founder and chairman, Meth Project Foundation; chairman, Siebel Foundation; founder and former CEO, Siebel Systems
Web site: http://www.methproject.org/
View ads: http://www.methproject.org/View_Ads/index.php
Suzy Oudsema and Rick Wedell. “Un-selling Meth.” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2007. (download PDF)
