Defining & Measuring Success
The Ultimate Grants Toolkit Webinar
Friday, December 19, 2014
9:30-11:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time
In the end, it’s all about evaluation:
- What is it you’re setting out to do, create, or change with your grant-funded program?
- And how will you know that you’ve succeeded? What does your finish line look like?
For many grant professionals—even those who’ve been practicing a long time—the whole arena of measuring success is a mystery. What’s the difference between "outcomes" and "objectives"? How do you establish quantifiable measures for intangibles like changes in attitudes, behaviors, or beliefs?
Yet the mystery disappears when we understand, first, what it is that funders are looking for from our evaluation plans, and, second, how our evaluation plans support the successful management of our grant-funded programs.
This session will help remove the mystery. Taking a common-sense, down-to-earth approach, we’ll present the must-have tools and must-do techniques for constructing a solid evaluation plan for your program and integrating it into your funding proposals. We'll explore these topics and much more:
- What does "success" look like in our grant-funded programs?
- What exactly are "outcomes"?
- What makes a strong "objective"?
- What is a "logic model," and how do I use one in developing evaluation plans for my grant proposals?
- What kinds of results and reporting do funders want from us—and how do we deliver?
- What resources are available for measuring our success, and how do we use them?
BONUS: Crafting Knock-Their-Socks-Off! Outcomes Statements – This step-by-step, fill-in-the-blanks template is your foolproof guide to crafting outcomes statements that are clear, specific, and focused on meaningful change.
Registration Options
Series Pass
$250 for members$350 for non-members
Includes all eight sessions plus exclusive bonuses
Savings and bonuses for Series Pass Holders
Pre-register for all eight webinar sessions as a Series Pass Holder and you’ll save 20% and enjoy exclusive bonuses:- Live Q&A sessions: As a Series Pass Holder you’ll be invited to three special live Q&A phone sessions, where Maryn will address your specific questions about the tools and techniques you’re learning and how to apply them in your real-life working world.
- Free review and feedback: Sign up for a Series Pass by October 15 and Maryn will personally review and offer specific feedback on your proposal-in-progress!
- Other special Series Pass Holder bonuses to be announced.
Individual sessions
$45 members$65 for non-members
Register for individual sessions by clicking on the "Register Now" button on the page of the specific session you would like to attend.
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Train your team!
Your registration is per connection – which means for one low price you can share the webinar series with your entire development team, board, or staff via computer/projector and speaker phone. (If you’d like to share your connection outside your organization please contact [email protected] for permission.)About your presenter:
Maryn Boess is a 25-year nonprofit professional, social entrepreneur, and leader in capacity-building and grantsmanship training whose grant proposals won more than $42 million for her clients from 1989 through 1999. As founder of GrantsUSA LLC, from 2000 through 2011 she created a portfolio of high-quality, low-cost grants information tools, resources, and workshops taught nationwide. A resident of the Pacific Northwest since early 2011, Maryn travels nationally to share her workshops on practical strategies for nonprofit and public-sector success. Since 2006 she has also been in the grantmaker's chair, managing up to $2 million annually in grantmaking for higher education through the Arizona Board of Regents.
THIS IS AN ONLINE WEBINAR using Adobe Connect
Please test the computer you will be using at THIS LINK at least 1 day prior to the event start.
| Individual Session | |
| NAO Members | $45.00 |
| Nonmembers | $65.00 |
| The Ultimate Grants Toolkit - Eight Session Series | |
| NAO Members | $250.00 |
| Nonmembers | $350.00 |