Webinars: Evaluation
Ensuring you make a difference
Ensuring you make a differenceEvery aspect of your organisation and activities should be regularly monitored and evaluated. Monitoring is the collection of information against a plan and set measures. Evaluation is about using monitoring and other information you collect to make judgements about the value of any aspect of your organisation, including projects, products, services or benefits; or about the organisation as a whole. This information can then be used to demonstrate what is working well and where there is room for improvement.
View webinars below or download PDF of all Evaluation webinars (PDF, 233 KB).
Webinar index
- How to amaze your funders
- Introduction to RBA™ – make a measurable difference
- RBA™ Webinar No. 2: The art of 'Mapping & Gapping', and population, systems & services
- RBA™ Webinar No. 3: Great data collection, & making sense of your data
- Collective impact: Shared measurement
- Evaluations that work: What the non-profit sector can learn from the Ontario Nonprofit Network and Vibrant Communities
- Shared evaluation method
- Measuring the performance and impact of community indicator systems: Key performance indicators and evaluation
- Knowing and showing the ‘added Value’ of community
How to amaze your funders
Rachael Trotman (Weave Consulting, ANZEA) and Kate McKegg (The Knowledge Institute, ANZEA) present a Community Research webinar for time-poor, cash-strapped organisations who are under pressure to produce evidence of their results. They introduce outcomes-thinking, evaluation methods, and some tools and case studies to assist with these. They introduce the resources on the What Works website.
Presenting organisation: What Works
Presenter/s: Rachael Trotman (Weave Consulting, ANZEA)
Kate McKegg (The Knowledge Institute, ANZEA)
Related resources: How to amaze your funders with water tight evidence (PDF, 722 KB)
Introduction to RBA™ – make a measurable difference
In this recording Sharon Shea, a recognised leader in the field of health sector strategy, will introduce the RBA™ methodology and explain how it can be used to show the impact of your work. Sharon also discusses key RBA™ concepts (2-3-7), the benefits of the RBA™ process, the seven step thinking process of RBA™ and some baseline tools that will start you off on your RBA™ journey.
Presenting organisation: Community Research NZ
Presenter/s: Sharon Shea, Shea Pita and Associates
Natasha Kemp, te Kaha Rangatahi
Related resources: Working together to improve outcomes for clients and communities: a practical overview and Q&A about RBA (PDF, 1.2 MB)
RBA™ Webinar No. 2: The art of 'Mapping & Gapping', and population, systems & services
In this 30-minute event Sharon Shea will demonstrate practical first steps for using the Results Based Accountability (RBA™) methodology with a focus on the art of 'Mapping & Gapping' and population, systems & services. RBA™ is a commonsense process that can help your organisation to demonstrate how its vision, mission and strategic priorities are linked to people's wellbeing. It helps you demonstrate your organisation's outcomes. If you have contracts with Government, or you need to develop an outcomes framework, this is a great place to start.
Presenting organisation: Community Research NZ
Presenter/s: Sharon Shea, Shea Pita and Associates
RBA™ Webinar No. 3: Great data collection, & making sense of your data
In this final of three Community Research webinars, featuring RBA, Sharon Shea will delve more deeply into data collection, and provide some baseline tools and definitions for data collection. If you are interested in measuring and improving your outcomes, then this webinar is a place to start.
Presenting organisation: Community Research NZ
Presenter/s: Sharon Shea, Shea Pita and Associates
Collective impact: Shared measurement
What does it take to know you are making an impact? This webinar explores how to build shared measurement strategies into your collective work through a number of important steps.
Presenting organisation: Tamarack Institute
Presenter/s: Liz Weaver
Evaluations that work: What the non-profit sector can learn from the Ontario Nonprofit Network and Vibrant Communities
Evaluations “work” when they lead to insight and action. We all know that the process can be resource-intensive, so it is important for us to maximize the probability of getting it right! In this webinar, two leading learning institutes, the Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) and Tamarack's Vibrant Communities Canada (VCC), unpack real-life stories from Cities Reducing Poverty members to identify cases where evaluation worked really well. Together we will identify how they achieved exceptional success, and top takeaway points for the nonprofit sector.
Presenting organisation: Tamarack Institute
Presenter/s: Andrew Taylor and Ben Liadsky
Shared evaluation method
The presenter explores Vibrant Communities' revised shared evaluation framework and provides more information about how you can use it.
Presenting organisation: Tamarack Institute
Presenter/s: Mark Cabaj
Related resources:
Measuring the performance and impact of community indicator systems: Key performance indicators and evaluation
There is growing interest in developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). However, developing indicator systems and KPIs is not sufficient. Measuring the impact of community indicator systems for causing community change is important for sustaining such systems. This webinar delved into the following goals: Demonstrate the value of KPIs and evaluation to community indicator systems; Present the KPI framework drafted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) for Peg - a community indicators system for Winnipeg, Canada; Discuss the merits and possibilities of applying KPIs and evaluation to community indicator systems.
Presenting organisation: Community Indicators Consortium (CIC)
Presenter/s: Charles Thrift and Bobbie Macdonald, IISD's Measurement and Assessment Team
Related resources: Measuring the Performance and Impact of Community Indicator Systems: Key Performance Indicators and Evaluation (pptx, 4.3 MB)
Knowing and showing the ‘added Value’ of community
In 2015 the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services published ‘Outcomes Plus’. This research examines the ‘added’ value provided by community social services, exploring the impact that the work of the community sector has on New Zealand society, beyond the outcomes that are purchased by government funding. It evidences what and how the social services sector contributes to society and identifies the characteristics of organisations that are proving effective in providing added value.
Presenting organisation: Community Research NZ
Presenter/s: Trevor McGlinchey, NZ Council of Christian Social Services
Garth Nowland-Foreman, LEAD Centre for Not for Profit Leadership
Page last updated: 22 September 2017
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