La Alianza Hispana, a community-based, multi-service organization in Boston, confronted the challenges and risks of evaluating program performance based on assessing outcomes.

How program directors can become more effective in using evaluation findings to introduce organizational change.

Describes how Youth on Board, a nonprofit in Somerville, Massachusetts, helps organizations place youth in leadership positions.

Examining the mission-based framework for evaluation.

Ricardo Millet, director of evaluation at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, discusses the future of evaluation policy.

For many foundations, measuring program performance in terms of outcomes has become a major factor in grantmaking.

Participatory management and the role of leadership.

An introduction to evaluation with tips on how to construct useful quantitative measures and indicators.

An introduction to the featured topic of the magazine, the changing practice of evaluation toward a combination of reporting, experimenting, and planning support.

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Here at NPQ we like to revisit ideas that have intrigued us in the past to see how our readers have evolved in their own thinking on the topic. In this case the topic is measurement and participation and it comes from authors whose thinking was perhaps ahead of its time then. We’d love to hear your thinking on the issue of measurement in your own work today.