Assessment and Learning

Identifying Methods to Measure Progress

Learn how to build an assessment and learning plan that defines and measures the progress and success of your strategy, governance, and administrative efforts.

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February 11, 2025

Grant Evaluation, Proposal Review and Site Visits

Family foundations are in business to make a difference. This NCFP Content Collection focuses on techniques available for assessing and evaluating the results of your giving, as well as tips, strategies, and sample policies regarding grant evaluation and site visits.
July 19, 2024

Trust-Based Philanthropy

The Trust-based Philanthropy Project builds and curates tools and resources to engage grantmakers around ways to embody a trust-based approach, and why it matters. Below you’ll find a selection of their specialized how-to guides and templates to use and adapt.
February 9, 2025

Working with Consultants and Philanthropic Advisors

There are almost as many reasons to hire a consultant as there are consultants. These resources will help you take the right steps to find, hire, and manage a consultant who will deliver what you need whether it be for strategy, evaluation, communications, or providing fundraising advice and support for your grantee partners.

A Guide to Actionable Measurement

This guide provides a basis for a common understanding of results measurement at the Gates Foundation. The guide uses the term ‘measurement’ to refer to indicator monitoring, evaluation, as well as long-term impact tracking, and is intended to inform choices about measurement within funder strategies.

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