Strategy and Evaluation in Grantmaking

Strategy and Evaluation in Grantmaking

Presented by The Grantmaking School

Strategy and Evaluation in Grantmaking is a two-day learning experience designed to help you develop or refine your grantmaking strategy and to develop evaluation approaches that support learning, strategy improvement, and promote equitable evaluation practices.

This course gives you the opportunity to examine the history, strategy, design, and theory behind the process of programmatic and strategy evaluation and helps equip you with the necessary tools to respond to the diverse nature of evaluation in foundations.

In this course, we'll cover:

• How to use evaluation as a tool to promote equity and learn about strategy
• How to leverage a foundation’s toolkit to implement strategy
• Models for strategy development
• Evaluation design and how to determine purpose and approach
• How to manage external evaluation

Instructors: Teri Behrens Ph.D. and Elvis Fraser Ph.D.

Individual Registration: $950
Group Registration: $865 per person
TGS Alumni: $865 (use promo code TGSALUM)

Course runs 8 AM–5 PM each day. Breakfast and lunch are included.
Deadline to register is Friday, May 29.

This course may be subject to cancellation if it does not reach the minimum number of registrants. In the event of a cancellation, you will be notified at least two weeks before the course start date.

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PLEASE NOTE: This course is intended for foundation staff, donors, and others engaged in grantmaking. If you do not fit this profile, please email tara.baker@gvsu.edu before enrolling.

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Teri Behrens, Ph.D. is the executive director of the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University. Previously, Dr. Behrens served as director of the Institute for Foundation and Donor Learning, providing professional development resources for donors, foundation staff and those who work with them to implement programs. Dr. Behrens is also the editor in chief for The Foundation Review, the first peer-reviewed journal of philanthropy. Learn more about Teri.

Elvis Fraser, Ph.D. draws on more than 25 years of experience in strategy development, strategy monitoring and evaluation, and using evidence to inform program development and business process improvement. He is the founder and managing director of Sankofa Consulting, in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Fraser spent 10 years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he was responsible for leading the measurement, learning and evaluation function within the international agriculture development strategy team. Fraser has a doctorate in socio-economics with a concentration on international development. He has served as a senior social scientist and consultant for organizations including, the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and many foundations, and has conducted research and has published on the interrelationships among social, political, and economic development. 

If you are unable to attend a workshop after registering, please call Tara Baker at 616-331-7585 or email tara.baker@gvsu.edu in advance of the event.